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  When Dr. Ke-Ling Yan, the Colony's lead geneticist and a member of the ruling Council, announces his intention to move for the abolition of cloning, the mild-mannered Quingenti reveal their dark side. How far will they go to contain the rebellion? As far as the Alpha Genesis Option. The AG microchip, implanted in every colonist's brain at birth, is the excruciatingly painful fail-safe designed to wipe the mental hard drive and prepare it for reprogramming.
  Writing in the far future is a challenge, because I can't use current cultural allusions to connect with my reader. No Justin Bieber song lyrics or references to current political issues, etc. You would be surprised how deeply those influences are woven into the woof and warp of our consciousness!
  Instead, I have to connect via our shared human condition. I have to forge new ways to connect.
  Write as if you were sitting around a campfire, telling the story to your best friends. You have a unique voice. Worse thing you can do is try to sound like somebody else!
  Kathy's publishing career dates back to 1997, when she published two romances with Bantam's Loveswept line. One of them, For Love or Money, won a 1997 Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award.
  She is a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the Alliance of Independent Authors, the Independent Author Network, the Independent Author Index, the Indie Writers' Network, World Literary Cafe, and the International Association of Business Communicators.
  When not writing, she takes brisk walks with Molly and Lucy (her dogs), reads, and indulges in her latest hobby at the firing range.
  Thanks to science and a raft of medical advances, life is longer and better, but it's still not forever. Some say cloning is the answer, but is true immortality possible even then?
  Writing Why Live? brought me up against interesting questions like, why do we want to live forever? Should we live forever? What would history look like if we did live forever?
  Then I wondered, what if a third-generation clone–card-carrying member of a dystopian society where living forever is the end all and be all–started to ask these same questions?
  The novel is both a thriller and an exploration of what it means to be fully human, transcendentally unique, intensely alive. It's about the thrill of discovering your own heart and the cost of defending that heart–to the bitter end, if necessary.