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April 17, 2007 - It's been an odd year for author Howard Bronson. Sales of two books he wrote over a decade ago have suddenly gonethrough the roof but not for the reasons he would prefer. It began as the tainted pet food story grew which sparked the jump in his book Dog Gone - Coping With The Loss of A Pet (Bestsell). At first, Bronson noted a small increase of just a few hundred copies but in the last few weeks, the increase has been in the thousands. "This tells me two things," says Bronson, "first is the obvious element that people cherish their pets but secondly and more distrubing is that thismeans far more animals have died from this than have been publicly revealed.
Then came yet another senseless tragedy: the brutal killing of thirty students in Virginia. Immediately, queries and sales of Bronson's classic Early Winter, learning to live Love and Laugh Again After a Painful Loss (Bestsell) have increased ten-fold. "I never designed the books for situations like these," lamented Bronson who was at first upset by the reasons for the sales increase. "but the perponderance of emails express a gratitude for a comforting resource like these books"
Bronson further notes that interest in Early Winter as a result of the shootings has been worldwide indicating a "universal global support for the suffering of these victims and their loved-ones."
Bronson, who has written a series of both healing and empowerment vehicles, gets the toughest questions: How can I cope, what words can matter to a parent who has just lost their child for any reason? "This is an unfathomable pain that naturally induces great degrees of grief and unimaginable suffering," notes Bronson, "but it's important to note that grief and the love that surrounds the grieving are the conditions that allow for the slow process of coming to terms with these great losses." Bronson adds that nothing will make the sadness go away completely "but ultimately, we have to understand that those we've lost would want us to carry on and live for them.
The only problem at present is that there aren't all that many of these two books remaining in stock, probably no more 10,000 mostly found on line.
Bronson suggests that people first check their local libraries and, he is also arranging for the books to be made available as e-books at his direct cost through Amazon.com. "Nothing changes what happened but we can all work together to contribute what we can to promote a degree of healing."
