Alice Blog

Hello! First, let me start of by saying I am ABSOLUTLY in love with the Alice Series! But, I have a slight problem. I really want to read the ENTIRE series, but I can’t find the earlier books ANYWHERE! Can we order them from you, or somewhere else? Why don’t they have them all in book stores or libraries? I’ve been dying to get my hands on them! Thanks in advance!

Phyllis replied:

 I get this question so often that I’ve forwarded your letter to my editor.  In the meantime, all I can tellyou is that the books about her high school years are now published 3 to a set in what we call “Bind-up” editions, beginning with a set called, “I Like Him, He Likes her.”  The middle books have just come out in a new paperback format–the covers are all done by the same artist, but I don’t think they’re in the stores yet.  When the last bind-up is out, and I know the middle books are in the stores, I’ll try to post something on the Alice website explaining it all.  In the meantime, keep watching the Amazon and Barnes & Noble websites–they’ll probably be among the first to have the new editions.

Question:

I am twelve and I’m from Austria.
  I started to read your books when i was nine. Every time when it’s 
christmas, easter or my birthday I tell my parents that I want alice 
books, I love them!
And my friend i my class love them, too!
Alice is so real, she is not just a person in a book, and I just 
wanted to say,  I’m so glad that you wrote (and write) the Alice 
series!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! I don’t like reading very much,but I love 
to read Alice!!
But I have a little question: Why did you start to write the Alice 
series at all? What was the inspiration?

Thanks for reading this and much greetings from Austria!!

Phyllis replied:

I love hearing from readers in other countries, and wonder if you are reading the original version or a translation.  I didn’t know when I wrote the first Alice book that it would become a series, but got so many letters asking for more that I decided I would do it as long as I didn’t have to turn out more than one book a year, and Alice could grow slightly older in every book.  The publisher agreed.

Question:

I loved how raw and amazing Incredibly Alice was.  One of the things that is amazing about this series and the book is the deep connection Alice and Patrick have. I have grown up with Alice and Patrick and seen their relationship develop. the funny moments when Patrick’s parents invited Alice to the Country Club and that was her awkward moment. We saw them break up over Penny. But this book really shows what anchors them together.Pleeease don’t break them up. I know Alice is going to college and might move on and Patrick is going you know where.  But there are three couples that can never be broken up Han/Leia, Ron/Hermione, and Alice/Patrick.

Question:

   I started reading your books last summer, and I absolutely LOVE them!!!!  I can’t wait for “Alice on Board” to come out!!!!!!!! I’m dying to read it, you are pretty much my favorite author ever, and this is definitely, like the best series I have ever read, and my favorite. This series is really amazing to me and has helped me live life better. I have a question for you, What ever happened to the little girl Brian hit with his car? Is she alright? They never said!!!! You’re reply would be much appreciated!!!!!

Phyllis replied:

That’s a good question, and one I don’t think I ever answered.  I believe that somewhere, in one of the books, Alice and her friends are talking about the accident, and someone remarks that for Brian, his probation of no driving will be over in a year, while for the little girl, it will be a long, slow recovery.  And I left it at that.  In my mind she did, yes, fully recover.  Thanks for bringing this up.  I’m so glad you like the Alice series!

Question:

I am thirteen years old and i hate to read. In my english class we have to read 2 and 1/2 to three hours every week. This is always difficult for me because I play sports ,try my hardest in school,try to go to all of my brothers foot ball, base ball, and basket ball games, and some nights even stay up until 10pm. doing homework and lastly i don’t like to read. during summer vacatiuion I had not read at all and my ma saw a alice book when i read the back i thought i would like it so i checked it out. I read the book and LOVED IT. then i found out there was a series. during this school year so far I have looked for the alice books and have found many and have already read 4 this year(excluding the ones I read over the summer) and it has only been 1 month since school started!! A few days ago i wanted to read the whole series and i found your blog and the list and i printed the list and bring it everywhere i go. in school it stays in my binder so i can check what books i want to read or see what the next book in the series is and more! Yesterday i decided to read the very first book I started to read it yesterday and finished it yesterday!!!!!!!!!! I am such  a slow reader you would not belieave it, I read for 4 hours and 5 minutes yesterday to read thet book i couldn’t stop!!! This week(monday through thursday) I read 7.6 hours and now i have an A+ on my reading grade and a few weeks ago my ma and I were saying how she wants me to get an A+ in reading and i told her I didn’t know if I could and she said she knew I could then I got really worried because I try my hardest in everything and always get A’s and never had to have my ma tell me to work harder and get a better grade because the week before i got a B+ and She wanted better. I was so worried! but then i kept reading your books and got more and more into them!!!! I forgot all about our conversation and before i knew it I had read three weekes worth of reading already!!! and I will keep reading this much every week if not more!! Every year of school I only read about 2 books because I hate reading so much but it never affected my grade and this year my reading teacher told us to write down how many books we thought we would read this year i wrote 5!!!!! I have already read four books in 1 month it is unbelievable!!!!!!!! my ma and I are thrilled that We finally found a series that makes me LOVE reading and a series I can relate to and a series that raises my grades!!!!!!!!!!!!

Question:

Thanks so much for your email.   Since the majority of my letters from parents are favorable, I don’t get too upset over the critical letters–I do try to understand where they are coming from.  I also sympathize with librarians who don’t have a school policy for dealing with requests to ban a book and sometimes, fearful of losing their jobs, decide to remove a book from the shelves.  It’s unfair that one or two parents should be able to decide what the children of other parents should or should not read.  Most librarians put a lot of time into deciding what books should be in their collection, and though parents’ input is important, the professional librarian should have the final.