Team Novel Teen Blog Tour: Replication- The Jason Experiment by Jill Williamson

Today, Team Novel Teen is touring my book, Replication: The Jason Experiment! I’m pretty excited to see what the team had to say about my story. See the end of this post for links to the other reviewers.

I’m not going to review my own book, because that would be… odd. Instead, I’m going to post… 

Ten Things I Learned while Writing Replication

1. Whenever children are involved in an emergency situation and the parents are unknown, the local child protective services organization is called and the children are put into temporary foster care.

2. If police respond to a crime in progress and a fire breaks out, the fire marshal usually takes over until the fire is extinguished. But if there is a gunman involved, the police often remain in charge until the gunman is apprehended.

3. Since fire cannot burn without oxygen, fire tends to travel toward air vents. Therefore in the Jason Farms lab smoke and flames would have migrated toward the elevator shaft.

4. It is REALLY difficult to keep automatic fire sprinklers from working. And they work REALLY well. (Cool huh?) Which was why I had to have Martyr disable them. He also could have turned off the water in the building, but I thought, even if Dr. Goyer knew where to find the water main shutoff valve, it might have been difficult for Martyr to find it.

5. That a simple definition of cloning is: creating an exact copy of another organism so that both have identical DNA.

6. Cloning technologies are controversial when they use human embryos for research or procedures. The debate is similar to the abortion debate of what defines a human life.

7. Identical twins have identical DNA. They are natures clones. 

9. Biotech companies invest hundreds of millions in regenerative medicine, which is a technology that allows them to grow body parts from human stem cells taken directly from patients. Click to watch this fascinating 60 Minutes feature on the subject of growing body parts. For the patient, these surgeries are still considered experimental. What do you think of that?8. ADRs–aka: adverse drug reactions–(harm caused by medicines given in a normal dosage) are not only sought out when a drug is being tested, health care practitioners are encouraged to report any reactions that their patience experience from approved medicines to the Food and Drug Administration.

10. Human organ trafficking is a real thing. Some poverty-stricken countries have had problems with black market kidneys. People might sell their own kidney or be tricked into giving one up. A donor might receive $5000 for his kidney, but it can be sold for as much as $150, 000. Imagine how much a whole body’s worth of healthy organs could sell for. Some countries take and sell the organs from the body of a prisoner after he is executed. Some only do this when the prisoner has signed donor agreements beforehand.

 

About Team Novel Teen: We are a group of bloggers dedicated to spreading the word about clean teen fiction. Check out other posts about Lost in Dreams by Roger Bruner by clicking on the links below, and check out the Team Novel Teen page for more information.

See what the Team had to say about Replication. Click on each link to view their blog post about the book.

ADD Librarian • Audacious Reader • The Book Fae • Books I Recommend • Book Nook 4 You • Bookworm Reading • Christian Bookshelf Reviews • Fiction Fire • Gillian Adams • Jill Williamson • Katie McCurdy • Kurly Katie’s Ruminations • My Story Shelf • The Pen and Parchment • Rachelle Rea • SLY Games • Terri Harr • Virtuous Girlhood