Anything to Stop the Pain - BPD and Non-BPs

Now that my book, When Hope is Not Enough has appeared on Amazon (see it here), I have been checking my Amazon sales ranking daily (ok, maybe more like hourly). It’s painful and exhilarating at the same time. I have been as high as 33,000 (which ain’t great I know) and as low as 300,000+. As I write this the book is around 62,000. Some book with comparable content:

• Stop Walking on Eggshells - 495 in books (whoa!)
• SWOE Workbook - 5,772 (I’d settle for that)
• Tears and Healing - 930,985
•  One Way Ticket to Kansas - 21,832
• Breaking free from Boomerang Love - 22,865
• Why does he do that? - 1,912
• Emotional Vampires - 3,041
• And the upcoming Essential Family Guide to BPD - 440,683 (but not yet published)

Oh the ups and downs. Of course, I have of late been plugging my book because I think it can really help family members and loved ones with understanding and dealing with someone with BPD.

Here’s another quote from my list from a reader of WHINE (my book):

Seriously, Bon, your book is the only thing out there that has a complete set of tools for dealing with BP behavior, written in plain English.  SWOE offers some good tools but not a systematic process, like yours do.  The DBT materials are great but not really targeting Nons, as far as I can tell.   What I see you doing is adapting [a] theory and process for Nons, and making it very accessible and easy to understand.  And SWOE has a lot of time and momentum on its side and a real publisher behind them, so it’s not at all surprising how well it is ranked compared to WHINE.

Bon Dobbs :: Jul.16.2008 :: WHINE Book, Resources :: 1 Comment »

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