IN STITCHES: PREVIEW AND GIVEAWAY

 

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IN STITCHES

BY ANTHONY YOUN, M.D.

WITH ALAN EISENSTOCK

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Another funny, touching memoir is coming out from Simon & Schuster called In Stitches - Dr. Anthony Youn's open and honest recount of becoming a plastic surgeon.

In Stitches is not just a book about doctors - it's really a coming-of-age story at its finest.  It's a book about not fitting in, not knowing what's coming next, and it's about Dr. Youn's own life-changing experience with plastic surgery that ultimately led him to his current career.  An accurate description would be David Sedaris meets Scrubs. 

Tony Youn grew up up one of two Asian-American kids in a small town of near wall-to-wall whiteness. Too tall and too thin, he wore thick Coke-bottle glasses, braces, Hannibal Lecter headgear, and had a protruding jaw that one day began to grow, expanding Pinocchio-like, protruding to an unthinkable, monstrous size. After high school graduation, while other seniors partied at the shore or explored Europe, Youn lay strapped in an oral surgeon's chair as he broke his jaw, then reset it and wired it shut for six weeks.

Ironically, it was this brutal makeover that led him to his life's calling -- and the four years of angst, flubs, triumphs, non-stop studying and intermittent heavy drinking that eventually earned him an M.D. Thanks to a small circle of close friends and an obsessive drive to overachieve, Youn transformed from a shy, skinny, awkward nerd with no confidence and no clue into a renowned and successful plastic surgeon.

In Stitches is a heartfelt, candid, and laugh-out-loud memoir of one man's bumpy road to becoming a doctor and learning to be comfortable in his own skin.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

ANTHONY YOUN...

I’m a board-certified plastic surgeon in private practice in Metro Detroit, Michigan. Ever since my national television debut on “Dr. 90210” in 2004, I’ve enjoyed appearing on numerous television programs including frequent appearances on “The Rachael Ray Show” and “The CBS Early Show.” I’ve also appeared on “The Doctors,” “The O’Reilly Factor,” “Fox and Friends,” “Manswers,” and various celebrity plastic surgery specials on VH1 and E!. I have written articles for “RADAR” magazine, MSNBC.com and CBS News.com. My comments have appeared in dozens of magazines, including “US Weekly,” “In Touch Weekly,” “The National Enquirer,” and several others I try not to mention. My blog, www.celebcosmeticsurgery.com is the most popular blog by a plastic surgeon in the country and averages over 12,000 page views per day, with over 10 million page views in the past four years.

I’m a graduate of Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, where much of IN STITCHES takes place. I completed my plastic surgery residency at the Michigan State University MERC plastic surgery program. I then attached a U-Haul to my beat-up Toyota RAV-4 and headed out to Beverly Hills, California, where I completed an aesthetic surgery fellowship with a top celebrity plastic surgeon.

IN STITCHES is my first book, and has been one of my obsessions for the past five years. It has undergone many metamorphoses leading up to the book that Alan and I eventually created. I believe it tells the true story of becoming a doctor, without the pious, self-congratulatory tone of some other physician memoirs. Although I take my job very seriously, I try not to take myself too seriously. In the end, I’m still deep down that skinny, awkward nerd with thick glasses and a big jaw. Or so my friends tell me.

If you have bought IN STITCHES, I’d like to sincerely say “thank you.” Thank you for spending your hard-earned money to read about my story. My hope is that this book makes you laugh a lot, cringe at times, and maybe even cry a little. And, if you do laugh, cringe, or cry, please feel free to let me know about it. You can reach me via email at miplasticsurgeon@yahoo.com or friend me on Facebook. If you didn’t like my book, then please keep it to yourself.

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ALAN EISENSTOCK...

I’ve been a writer practically my whole life, beginning with a novel I wrote in the sixth grade. IN STITCHES is the ninth book I’ve published. I’ve also written BARACK LIKE ME, (with David Alan Grier), CANCER ON $5 A DAY (with Robert Schimmel), JUST A GUY (with Bill Engvall), THE KINDERGARTEN WARS, THE HOLY THIEF (with Rabbi Mark Borovitz), TEN ON SUNDAY, SPORTS TALK, and INSIDE THE MEAT GRINDER. Before I wrote books, I spent twenty-five years writing television for shows such as “Married…With Children,” “The Nanny,” “Mork and Mindy,” “Family Matters,” “Step by Step,” “Angie,” and “What’s Happening,” and television movies including “Angels in the End Zone” and “High School U.S.A.” I live in Pacific Palisades, California.

Please visit me at my website: www.alaneisenstock.com

MY "PREVIEW":

"Dr. Youn is a frequent guest on my show, and I can say without a doubt that he’s a cut above the rest!” - Rachael Ray. 

This is a review from Rachael Ray that is listed on Dr. Youn's website. That was a good enough recommendation for me to want to read this one. My review will be coming during the giveaway period. IN STITCHES comes out by May 2 (my latest knowledge is April 26th) but you can pre-order your book now and get it when it does come out. Just go here: Amazon: http://amzn.to/institchesbook

If you'd like to read an excerpt from Chapter 1, you can go here:
www.institchesbook.com/excerpts 

Lastly, if you visit and like IN STITCHES on Facebook, there are ways to pre-order there AND you can enter for a contest that has GREAT prizes including iPads, Kindles, and even more like some Botox treatments! Here is the place to go on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/institchesbook
Good luck and enjoy this last charming video!

GIVEAWAY

THANKS TO MARNI AT SNEAK ATTACK MEDIA,

I HAVE TWO COPIES OF THIS WONDERFUL 

MEMOIR TO GIVE AWAY FOR YOU TO ENJOY!

 

--U.S. RESIDENTS ONLY
--NO P. O. BOXES
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IN CASE YOU WIN!
--ALL COMMENTS MUST BE SEPARATE TO
COUNT AS MORE THAN ONE!

HOW TO ENTER:

+1 ENTRY: COMMENT ON SOMETHING YOU FOUND INTERESTING ABOVE THAT MAKES YOU WANT TO WIN IN STITCHES 

+1 MORE ENTRY: BLOG OR TWEET ABOUT THIS GIVEAWAY AND LEAVE A LINK THAT I CAN FOLLOW

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+1 MORE ENTRY: COMMENT ON WHETHER YOU HAVE BECOME A SWAGBUCKS MEMBER FROM MY WEBSITE. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO, YOU CAN JOIN IN THE RIGHT HAND COLUMN AND EARN SWAGBUCKS FOR YOURSELF, AS WELL AS FOR ME (IT IS ONE WAY I AM ABLE TO FURNISH SOME OF MY GIVEAWAY BOOKS)

 

GIVEAWAY ENDS AT

NOON, MAY 4  
*EXTENDED ONE DAY

GOOD LUCK!