JL Morin
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JL Morin grew up in inner-city Detroit. She proffered moral support while her parents sacrificed all to a failed system. Wondering what the Japanese were doing right, she decamped to Tokyo. JL Morin's debut Japan novel, SAZZAE, won an eLit gold medal and a Living Now Book Award. Her second novel, TRAVELLING LIGHT, was a USA Best Book Awards finalist, and her third, TRADING DREAMS became 'Occupy's first bestselling novel'. Her climate fiction novel, NATURE'S CONFESSION, won first place in the Dante Rossetti Book Awards, and a Readers' Favorite Book Award, a LitPick 5-Star Review Award, and an excerpt received an Honorable Mention in the Eco-Fiction Story Contest. Her virus novel, LOVEOID, is a ScreenCraft semifinalist, and is Fish Story Prize shortlisted. Morin's writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, Library Journal, The Detroit News, Agence France Presse, European Daily, and the Livonia Observer Eccentric Newspapers. JL Morin's writing draws on a breadth of experience. She traded derivatives in New York while studying nights for her MBA at New York University's Stern School of Business; worked for the Federal Reserve Bank posted to the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center; presented the news as a TV broadcaster; and is adjunct faculty at Boston University.
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Nature's Confession
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Cli-fi (Climate Fiction), Sci-Fi, YA
When a smart-mouthed, mixed-race teen wonders why the work that needs to be done pays nothing compared to the busywork glorified on holovision news, the search for answers takes him on the wildest journey of anyone’s lifetime. Their planet is choked with pollution. They can’t do anything about it . . . or can they? With the girl of his dreams, he inadvertently invents living computers. Just as the human race allows corporations to pollute Earth into total desolation, institute martial law and enslave humanity, the two teens set out to save civilization. Can they thwart polluters of Earth and other fertile planets? The heroes come into their own in different kinds of relationships in this diverse, multi-cultural romance. Along the way, they enlist the help of female droid Any Gynoid, who uncovers cutting-edge scientific mysteries. NATURE'S CONFESSION couldn’t be more timely, just as the IMF reveals that governments spent $5.3 trillion on fossil fuel subsidies. With illustrations and topics for discussion at the back of the book, JL Morin entertains questions about busywork; economic incentives to pollute; sustainable energy; exploitation; cyborgs; the sanctity of Nature; and many kinds of relationships in this diverse, multi-cultural romance.
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Trading Dreams
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Suspense
Finally! A humorous novel that tosses corruption onto the horns of the Wall Street bull. TRADING DREAMS slams the forces that hijacked the economy in a tale that is funny, thrilling and spiritual. Author J.L. Morin unveils the ironies of established Wall Street greed to the baseline of a grassroots Occupy movement. For Jerry, New York in its heyday means hanging with the guys, finding nothing but users, and developing a sex addiction to assuage her loneliness. When times are good on Wall Street, Jerry sleeps around and is one of the guys. She can’t find a stable man, and surmises, “If I could just be the bitch that he wanted, we could be happy forever as masochist and dominatrix.” Economic crisis descends like a praying mantis devouring its mate at the moment of ecstasy. Not one to let homeowners down or push clients to invest in the stocks the bank is trying to dump, Jerry tries to outsmart the machine. Her sex hunts evolve into friendships more liberating than romance, and with the help of Occupy Wall Street, she spreads the word through the human microphone. There’s little prospect of finding another job when Jerry blows the whistle. 
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Travelling Light
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Literary Fiction
Mac, a naïve but driven archaeologist comes to live on Styxos with her husband and children and soon realizes that she has given up more than just a familiar way of life: She has lost the anchor of a civilization whose values she had taken for granted. The price of paradise on Styxos is high. Mac’s husband soon reverts to the male stereotype of his homeland, and she is left adrift in an insular world of women, struggling to maintain her autonomy and a nurturing home for her children. The dreams of paradise Mac had entertained rapidly dissolve after the body of a sex slave is found in a hotel swimming pool during a highbrow investors’ gala. Using her archaeologist’s gift for unraveling ancient mystery, Mac begins an investigation that will take her to the deepest levels of myth and tradition, where international politics meets greed and corruption. 
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Sazzae
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Literary Fiction
SAZZAE opens the door to a wondrous cityscape where Japanese and American youth find each other in Tokyo. Discover the machinations of a lovers' triangle, a painter's inspiration, and a teen idol's dark secret through sensuous and evocative language. The pain and pleasures of Japan are remembered with lyric passion. 
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Loveoid
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Cli-fi (Climate Fiction), Eco-fiction, Speculative Fiction
ScreenCraft Semifinalist (top 12% of submissions) Fish shortlist (top 4% of submissions), A cli-fi love story An American euthanasist and an Egyptian astrological farmer delve into the evolution of the collective soul as an extremophile virus targets a select few. Cli-Fi at its best, where the twisted scientific changes of our present-day lives catalyze love in parallel universes. Loveoid grapples with the dilemmas of the latest generation of humankind ⎯ that the loving don’t survive. In the present-day novel Loveoid, Olivia unravels a virus that only harms the corporate upper crust. In combat with media, governments and corporations, as love-lacking predators on top kill off life on earth, Olivia finds love, and comes to question her own ideals. The impossibly mixed match encounters life-threatening obstacles, as Khalid elicits her darkest fears, yet lights the way with astrologicial farming, ancient holistic remedies and spiritualism. Will love allow them to stay human? Sample Chapter
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