Shiloh Blog

thank you!

thank you for making these books! they are the best! i do have 1 question though, are you going to make any more shiloh books? thanks for reading!

I think that four books are probably enough, because there are so many other kinds of books I want to write.

shiloh

I love your books me and my class have read all four.I really liked the part where jud saved shiloh.

Thank you.  If your teacher will write to me at my personal email address, Phyllis_naylor@comcast.net, and send me the school’s address, I will be happy to send your class a Shiloh poster.  Yours is the first class I’ve heard from that read all four Shiloh books in school.

Shiloh

How long have u been been writing books
And how long have u been writing about shiloh

It took me several years to write all four Shiloh books.  But I have had about 145 books published, and I have been writing full time for sixty years.

Shiloh’s name

 

my class read all four of your shiloh books i just wanted to know where you came up with the name shiloh

My husband and I found the little dog in the small community called Shiloh in  West Virginia.  So I decided that Marty would name the dog Shiloh.

your 4 books

. i really like your books when my teacher first started reading the books i liked them and it was sad when the german shepherd got loose and tore up shiloh then when judd pickup flipped over. all 4 of your book are very good thank you for writing those 4 good books my whole class love them.

Thank your teacher for me for reading all four of them!

shiloh

Thank you so much for righting the shiloh series my whole class loves it. shiloh season was amazing and that was my favorite one once again thank you

Thanks for letting me know.

shiloh

My class just finished all of your books I was so sad that we are done with all of the shilohs my favorite was saving shiloh because judd saved shiloh but,I cried so badly while we were watching the movie!

I cried while I was writing it!

the story

my question is how did you get a storyline for shiloh did it pop up in your or did it take you a while to think about it?

Before I begin a book, I usually know how it will begin, what the plot and climax will be, and how it will end.  But this isn’t true of Shiloh.  I was so upset about the dog we had found in West Virginia that I simply set out to see how an 11 year-old boy could get a mean, miserable man to give up his dog so Marty could care for it.

how Judd changed

Hi!Im Mackenzie and my teacher,Mrs.young Has read me all of the shiloh books they are so amazing and teaches me all about showing kindness and to be a marty. my teacher when she read the first book she said to be a marty not a judd . They are the best marty was nice to his sister he helped judd . this a very nice and peaceful story.and when i read the books its like im that person.and i hope you make more books like that in the future.and i loved how judd changed and the preacher got taught a lesson from judd i can’t believe it and he was very calm and nice .

It just shows that people can change, doesn’t it?  Sometimes what it takes is to know that someone cares about them.

characters and names

hello mrs.phyllis naylor ur books are amazing i really love shiloh i was wondering how do u come up with all those charecters and all those names.

I think a long time about each character–what he or she is like, and what name to give each of them. It depends on where they live, boy or girl, the age, etc. and I try to make all the names different from each other so the reader won’t get confused.