Shiloh the Dog

I am the individual who lost my dog “Shiloh Skylar Rayne” to a horrific tragedy. I just happen to stumble on your website and had a few questions to ask, including author referrals. I’d love to know if you or anyone else that is an author that you could refer to me, would be willing to co-write or assist me in writing a book regarding my Fur-baby Shiloh that was killed by a train, while in a veterinarians care. I feel that I could help a lot of Pet Parents to cope with the death of a pet, after living such a nightmare of my own. I, more than anyone know first hand the feeling of hurt, worry, anguish, sadness, my why’s, and how it turned my life upside down. My story will make for a great read, while helping others. I know this IS my calling and purpose.
Thank you for your time, and I hope to hear from you soon.

I’m so very sorry about your dog.  To have a pet die in such a horrible way seems almost too much to bear.  I imagine that every time you write about it–even in the short paragraph you sent to me–you relive it again and again.  Most writers I know have multiple projects in their own heads, each one pressing to be the next one the writer tackles.  It seems to me you have already got your story out there on numerous outlets, but you feel there is much more that is unique about your dog that would make a whole book–a hundred and fifty pages or so?   I suggest you think about a long article instead, and that you go to a library and look up all the different pet magazines there are that might be interested in such an article.  On the personal side, you need to remind yourself that your pet is no longer in pain.  It’s over.  But you are reliving it again and again and again…as pet owners do;  as parents do over the deaths of their children.  Each time, remind yourself, Skylar is not in pain.   And gradually I think the your own pain will lesson and help you write your story.