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Send me a Chapter?

Question:  im totally in love with your books. i feel like im part of alice and the gang.  i can’t wait to the new ones comes out in june and may. i was going back and rereading them and i was thinking how you should start making a tv show of these books since there so good.and maybe i could be gwen or something. yeah well anyways never stop writing alice series please im begging. is it possible that u could send me  or email me a chapter of the two new books

Phyllis replied:

I’m glad you love the books so much, but I never send out chapters.  Sorry.

We Liked the Same Guy

Question:

Me and my friend are in a arguement right now.It all strted when o found out she
liked the same guys as me at first I was mad because i felt that she should have
told me but then after a while I realized that she didn t have to tell me any
thing if she didn t want to. The guy that we both like like her. sHe didn t like
hi at first but she warmed up to him but anyway I just found out that he likes
someone else and I like someone else. We don t talk to each other anymore and im
trying to figure out how I can get her to talk to me?

Phyllis replied:

Can't you at least admire each other's taste?  So she now likes the guy that you liked, but he likes someone else, and you like someone else.  It would be easier if she had a boyfriend of her own, but since she doesn't, you need a sense of humor here.  Just call her up and tell her that no guy is worth your friendship, and invite her to do something, or go some place with you.  Be the first one to break the ice, and agree that there is no law that says two (or three or four or a hundred) girls can't like the same guy.  Movie stars would be out of business if they didn't have thousands of fans.

Getting Older Than Alice

Phyllis replied:

It’s hard, I know, when suddenly you are older than the person who has always been older than you!   As readers have discovered, three years of Alice’s life equal only one of yours.  In Alice in Charge, the book coming out this June, she is starting her senior year of high school–from September through December.  In the book I’m writing now, Incredibly Alice, it takes her from January through early June, and she graduates from high school.   It was good to hear that you have learned a lot from Alice, but I’ve learned a lot from my readers, and you’ve helped me write the series.

Lester and my Brother Could be Twins

Thank You for Writing the Alice Series

Couldn’t Stop Reading the Alice Books

Question:

I just want you to know that i really love your Alice books.  My friend started reading “Alice in Lace” one day, and i thought that it looked like a good book.  So i asked her if i could read it after her, and I did.  After I started reading that book, i couldn’t stop reading Alice books.  I’ve been reading one everyday, and I have read almost all of them now.  I also got 2 of my friends hooked on them too. The three of us named everyone in our class according to the Alice characters, and we try to act like our characters everyday.  We always watch “Alice Upside Down” at sleepovers.  I can’t wait to read the new Alice books that are coming out soon.  Thank you for being such a wonderful author.

 

Phyllis replied:
It’s wonderful to know that one book led you to read many more.  But be careful about naming people in your class after book characters; not even professional actors like to be typecast. I loved hearing that you introduced Alice to your friends.

Very Much Appreciate the Series

My First Dog

Question:

Hi. I’m really scared. My dog is 10, and she’s getting really slow. She wimpers when she comes up and down the stairs, she looks kinda miserable, and we have to bring the food for her to her bed. ‘m nervous. But, she does still eat, drink, go to the bathroom and lick me, but I don’t want her to die. She’s a miniature Dachshund, so she might have a back problem. She did break her leg when she was 2……..But she’s my first dog and I’ll be heart broken if something bad happens to her. Any advice? Did this ever happen to you?? :(:(:( All she does is sleep

Phyllis replied:

I’m not a doctor or nurse or psychiatrist or veterinarian, so I can’t tell you what’s wrong with your pet.  But I know how scary and sad it is when a pet gets old or sick.  You don’t want it to die but you don’t want it to suffer either.  You obviously love your dog, so you need to call your vet and describe what’s happening.  We were away on a trip once when a neighbor, who was caring for our cat, called us long distance to say that our cat seemed to be in pain, and had been taken to the vet.  We called him immediately, and were told our beloved cat was probably not going to make it, and it would be cruel to keep him alive until we got back, just so we could say goodbye.  So we had him put to sleep.  The thing about loving someone or a pet is that it’s so painful to lose him.  But it’s better to have the experience of love than not having it at all.

Movie?

 

Question:

Would there be a second Alice movie? I saw the first one and to tell the truth I didn’t like it. The book was better.

Phyllis replied:

 

 

I have no idea.  That would be entirely up to the producers.   It’s all I can do to write the books.