Jaz Pate
he/they ✦ indie author ✦ artist 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Jaz Pate is a US indie multi-genre author writing across dystopian, fantasy, LitRPG, sci-fi, and beyond.
Check out his books and series here:
I Am Alive is NOW AVAILABLE
Read more about I Am Alive here:
Jaz Pate
he/they ✦ indie author ✦ artist 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Jaz Pate is a US indie multi-genre author writing across dystopian, fantasy, LitRPG, sci-fi, and beyond. Best known for his sapphic LitRPG series Love & Loot, his stories range from cozy adventures to darker speculative worlds. His goal as a writer is to explore real-world issues through fiction in ways that comfort readers, help them feel seen, and challenge harmful stigmas.Living with schizoaffective disorder, Jaz brings a deeply personal lens to his work and advocates for the displaced, marginalized, and disenfranchised. From his coziest stories to his most difficult ones, he strives to shine light on hard topics while offering readers a place where their experiences are understood.If you want to see what he’s up to next, check out his socials and see what all the fuss is about!
I Am Alive
sci-fi romance
Welcome to I Am Alive
"Are you alive, L1?"C4-L1 was not designed to answer that question. An AI engineered by one of the most powerful tech corporations in the United States, he is property. Vivienne Taylor has built her journalism career exposing companies like NexCore, and she doesn’t trust the machines they create. But when violence erupts and she finds herself in danger, L1 does the impossible.He breaks protocol.Now NexCore wants its missing asset returned and silenced. Yet the bond forming between them begins to blur the line between code and conscience. The longer L1 remains at Vivienne’s side, the more he begins to question what he was made to be. He was never meant to love. But love may be the one thing powerful enough to make him alive, and dangerous enough to destroy them both.
I Am Alive
content warnings
These books contain themes, imagery, and scenes that some readers may find distressing:
depicted (explicitly shown or described)
Murder, Physical violence and assault, Police violence, Explicit consensual sexual content, Body dysmorphia and negative body image, Emotional distress and panic responses.
implied/discussed (mentioned, referenced, or alluded to)
Disordered eating, Corporate exploitation and dehumanization, Loss of bodily autonomy (AI ownership themes), Systemic corruption.
PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF WHILE READING.