Lynn Isenberg | The Funeral Planner

Lynn Isenberg wrote The Funeral Planner to deal with her own personal grief. In the process, she realized a real need to help people celebrate meaning and purpose, and not just for memorial tributes, but pre-purposed birthdays and honorariums as well. So she created the real life company Lights Out Enterprises, aptly named from the novel, with a notable advisory board of high stakes professionals. In addition, she is writing the non-fiction "Guide to Grief Wellness and Personalized Tributes" with renowned bereavement specialist Dave Techner (coming soon!). Lights Out Enterprises provides high-end preparation, planning, and production for personalized celebrations. For more information visit www.lightsoutenterprises.com.

The Funeral Planner PRESS RELEASE

Madison Banks has brilliant ideas and an Ivy League degree in Entrepreneurial Studies to go with them.

But no matter how hard she tries, she fails to get lift off on her start-ups, and is constantly usurped by her arch nemesis, the arrogant Derek Rogers.

When Madison attends her college classmate’s funeral, she launches the goldmine idea of the century and finds handsome venture capitalist Victor Winston to back it.

Between the trials and tribulations of growing a business, competing with copy-cat Derek Rogers, facing unresolved grief, accepting love and trusting faith... Madison learns that celebrating life is the self-worth that caps net-worth any day.

If you want to learn how to celebrate life and start a business in an emerging field, or any field... The Funeral Planner is a fictional manual for the ambitiously-inclined determined to create a life worth living.

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REAL-LIFE BUSINESS INSPIRATION
TV INTERVIEW WITH LYNN ISENBERG
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An unusual outstanding solo performance of a singer at Isenberg’s brother’s funeral spawned the kernel for her second novel, THE FUNERAL PLANNER, when Isenberg’s college roommate turned to her commenting, "Gee, I wish I’d brought my boys, then they would know funerals don’t have to be so sad.” The meaning of those words percolated inside Isenberg and eventually gave her the means to escape inside a new story while working through her burdens of grief for her father and brother. THE FUNERAL PLANNER, like her debut novel, challenges convention once again, this time through America’s perception of bereavement. Isenberg massages the mourning of a death into the celebration of a life through the eyes of an ambitiously ever failing entrepreneur who eventually learns how to live life by confronting grief along the way divining the difference between self-worth and net worth.

Get Involved & Share your Life Celebration Stories and Lyrics & Songs for for:

1. "The Funeral Planner" Theme Song
2. "He's got black dye under his fingernails"

Addenda

LIGHTS OUT ENTERPRISES is the company created by Madison Banks from the novel "The Funeral Planner."

Madison Banks Bio

Table of Contents:
Anatomy of a Business Plan
Chapter Headings

Lights Out Life Bio Video Interview Template

Glossary of Business Terms

Glossary of Funeral Industry Terms & Definitions

Resources, Links & Footnotes

Character Reference

Poems on Grief

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