A first-person YouTube testimonial by Dr. Cynthia Pan about writing her book Exit Strategies: Living Lessons from Dying People. She describes moving from journaling about palliative/hospice patients to turning those themes into a book, and credits Book Launchers (Julie Broad and team) for providing accountability, know-how, editorial services, ghostwriting, website creation and ongoing marketing support. She says she completed a class advertised as nine to ten weeks and received an actionable draft at the end; she highly recommends the service.
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Exit Strategies: Living Lessons from Dying People.
A doctor in palliative care and hospice medicine.
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But I said, there is no right time. If I want to write the book, I just have to power through and do it, which is easier said than done because I don't really know how to do it. And that's when I found Book Launchers, which really changed my life. My name is Cynthia Pan. My book's name is Exit Strategies Living Lessons from Dying People. So I'm a doctor in palliative care, which is for patients who have serious illnesses, and hospice care, which is for patients who have terminal illnesses. And after really taking care of these patients, I really felt it was very emotional. I started journaling some of the themes just for my own emotional processing. And I started finding that they were a lot of themes which could become a book because I saw more patients and they were still facing the same things without the knowledge that I had gathered. I wanted to write a book and that idea was in my head for many years. I was always waiting to find the right time to do it. I was trying to find ways to keep myself accountable. I actually hired a coach and it just didn't work because they didn't really have the know how. So when I found Book Launchers, it was not only accountability, but the know how. I joined, I think it was a nine or ten week class where Julie said, if you do exactly what I say and you come and you do the work, you will end up with an actionable draft by the end of the nine or 10 weeks, which is exactly what happened. It was really great community and there were other authors and they were struggling. We would have timed writing, you know, during the actual sessions. It was just really great. I think Book Launchers was one of the first companies that were doing this. There were, there was another company that I was checking out and after I met with them, I just didn't really like the vibe. Didn't really seem like they cared. Then whenever I would attend Julie's sessions, she was just very warm and bubbly and the team was great. During the sessions, I would always learn something. I totally recommend Book Launchers because Julie Broad and her team are excellent. They really give you caring support, the community that you can grow in and grow with. Also the technological know how. I feel like I benefited from Book Launchers in terms of accountability. Also the editing, both the content editing and the line editing. Uh, I did use the ghostwriting service, which was excellent. I used the website creation. I used the book concept kind of designing the COVID the font. So I really used a lot of it. I'm still using Book Launchers. For marketing.
