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Thank you for your submissions. I want to make sure you read the brief, in which I state that the photo of the author is to be used on the back cover and we do not want it on the front.

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Thank you for your wonderful submissions - it has given the author much to consider and helped guide him towards a cover he is excited about. The vision includes a heart shaped tree of life (see pencil drawing) within which is a silhouette of the author and his service dog Brunello in a golden sunset, with a turquoise larimar stone hanging at the tip of the heart. Golden yellow, Turquoise and Spring green are the color tones.

The title of the book has been changed - ALSo HAPPY is the name of the authors ALS foundation and we decided it would be a great message for the title as well. Title: ALSo HAPPY (with his sun logo used as the O) Subtitle: How the Prospect of Dying Changed My Life.

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Author Bio: Philipp Hanf was born in 1969 in Celle, the second of four children; he grew up in Hankensbüttel, in Lower Saxony, Germany. After his Abitur, or high school diploma, he went on to study dentistry in Heidelberg. Together with his wife, they carried on his father's practice for over twenty years. After being diagnosed with ALS, Mr. Hanf put an end to his active professional life, and began working on this book in 2021.

Back Cover Blurb: ALS is the diagnosis that Philipp is allocated at age 47. A severe, degenerative illness affecting
motor neurons in the central nervous system - unthinkable, irreversible, and allegedly fatal. For a
man, whose life hitherto has been defined by sports, travel, and adventure, this diagnosis heralds a stark break with the past. And yet, despite the realization that he will need, slowly but surely, to forfeit his ability to move, and will live dependent on the help of others, Philipp does not lose
courage. He begins to examine the fundamental imponderables: Questions about life and death;
conventional medicine versus possible alternatives; meaning and spirituality. The diagnosis of
ALS pushes him toward experiments in therapy, where he garners unforeseen experiences,
launching him into an extensive process, of which the result is by no means capitulation, but rather, a new departure - because only through his illness, has Philipp come to know what it means, to be truly happy.