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2017 Interview with Lisa Urbé of Luxembourg Newspaper
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Sarah Dawson: Editor for English language books. Contact: Wordplay Editing (she has been very busy being a young mother lately, but will edit more of my books for sure when she's able to find time and energy.
Have you had feedback about your novel from Luxembourg?
Yes, my cousin Jean in Greivelding read it and loved it. I was amazed at his talent for English and thrilled that he liked my thriller. I incorporated his suggestions for correcting the linguistic slip-ups.
Your novel deals with world corporations who either set themselves above the law, or even dictate the law. They only care about winning, and don't hesitate to use robbery and thuggery to reach their objectives. Why did you choose that subject matter?
That's a very important, central question. In the USA, medicine is a corporate business like anything else. We have no universal health care like in Luxembourg and many other countries. If someone becomes ill in the US, they can lose everything. No matter how horrifying that sounds, it is the reality. I focused on this theme by making Hannah, the young heroine of the novel, literally sell herself into slavery to save her mother's life, though her mother is allowed to die anyway. I wanted to send this powerful message to make readers think.****
Despite all that, you manage to create a Happy Ending for your Hero and Heroine...
Yes. That is why we call it Romantic Suspense. It was clear to me from the start that Rick and Hannah would fall in love, overcome their tribulations, and be happily married in San Diego. It's called Happy Ever After (HEA) and all my novels operate that way. There you see my romantic side at work. But in a thriller, you have to throw some hard curves to keep readers on the edge of their seats.
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****NOTE: This is a pressing issue for me, based on personal experience. In the US, medical decisions are often not made by trained professionals, but by high school graduates sitting in billions of dollars worth of giant glass 'health insurance' buildings who tell doctors and nurses what they can or cannot do. Landmark Harvard study 2009 (Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Health Systems) based on solid data stated that "at least 45,000 persons each year die from deliberate denial of health care." In my opinion, given that the corporations (in this U.S. national holocaust: I call it *mass murder*) steal a calculated $1,000,000,000,000 (trillion) each year from our GDP, it is clear this is the #1 motivator for the corporate republicans to use every tool in their arsenal, including corrupt politicians like Newt Gingrich and Mitch McConnell, to make sure the U.S. never gets humane health care reform. In my estimation, you can add at least several times that many victims (babies, children, men, women) who are maimed or their lives are shortened to maximize profits for those who throw out popular elections based on false Constitutional readings, and plug in worthless, unelected usurpers like #43 and #45. There is no Electoral College in the Constitution, period. Blather all you want, fudge the data, crap all over the facts, but there is no Electoral College. It is a lie, and a crime against humanity. I hope U.S. voters will finally rise up, with good leadership rather than the falsehoods conveyed by corporate media and corrupt leaders in the pulpit as well as politics and media demagoguery, and push through a Constitutional amendment declaring the fake Electoral College null and void (not to mention evil and absurd). If the corporations can throw out our elections, then we are not a democracy. Think about it.
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