Let This Novel Help you Lose Weight
Janet Greger is my guest today and her topic is something that will interest many of us. Janet, tell us about your new book
I always
think it’s easier to write about others than about myself. As I write this blog
on my new mystery/suspense novel Murder: A New Way to Lose Weight and
its prequel Coming Flu, I feel like I’m talking about myself. I guess that
shows how totally immersed I became into the characters and setting as I wrote
these book.
What happens in Murder: A New Way to Lose Weight?
Someone
in this southwestern medical school doesn’t like women. Two have been murdered
already. Linda Almquist suspects the deaths are related to her investigation of
Dr. Richard Varegos, a “diet doctor.” He is alleged to be recklessly
endangering the lives of his obese research subjects. Maybe she’s wrong. The
murders might be related to something in the past – something involving her
boss the Dean. While Linda fears for her job, the police fear for her life
Why
do I care?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
estimate that one-third of American adults are obese and one third are
overweight. That means most Americans are interested in (or should be
interested in) weight control and how diet advice is developed.
The “diet doctor” in Murder:
A New Way to Lose Weight is investigating whether he can help obese
subject lose more weight (and keep it off) if he alters their gut flora. Sounds
strange to you? But it is an active area of research on weight control.
Will
I like the characters?
I was a researcher and a research
administrator at universities. In this novel, I tried to give readers a behind
the scenes view of a medical schools – the excitement of scientific research
and the infighting and pecking order among brilliant and not-so-bright faculty
and staff. You like some characters immediately; you’ll learn to appreciate or
to distrust others as you get to know them. Just like in real life.
Linda Almquist, who seldom even smiled,
laughed.
Richard
Varegos had done it again. He had arranged books and a computer on the front
counter of the hospital pavilion for a photo shoot. In the resulting glossy,
full-color flyer, he sat with at his make-believe teak desk in his supposedly
marble-walled office. She read the flyer’s title: THE DIET DOCTOR HAS ANSWERS
FOR YOUR WEIGHT PROBLEMS.
Was
there no end to his ego?
Will I see any of the
characters from Coming Flu?
Sara (the
protagonist of Coming Flu) is back nagging and pushing her more introspective
sister Linda (the heroine of Murder: A New Way to Lose Weight). Lovable
Bug (Sara’s Japanese Chin dog) and Lalo (the kid who’s too smart for his own
britches) also reappear.
For more
information on my books, Bug, and me, please check out my website (www.jlgreger.com) and blog (www.jlgregerblog.blogspot.com)
called JL Greger’s Bugs.
How does this novel help me
lose weight?
Who
knows, maybe you’ll lose weight when you read about the adventures of Linda
Almquist in Murder: A New Way to Lose Weight. Linda did and you can too if
you follow her secrets. Eat less and exercise more. Of course you won’t have
the same incentives (I hope) that she did.
Thanks
for stopping by.
JL
Greger
Bio: J.
L. Greger , as a biologist and professor emerita of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, enjoys putting tidbits of science into her novels. She and
the real Bug live in the Southwest. Coming Flu (paperback and ebook formats)
is available on Amazon
Murder: A New Way to Lose Weight
should be available on Amazon or from Oak Tree Books (www.oaktreebooks.com/ShopOTP.html) by April 10.
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