Could you read what I have written?

Comment:

Alice in Rapture Sort of… the first book I read in a day and quite possibly the first chapter book I wasn’t forced to read. I’m now an educator and my first book is being published in 2020. I wanted to thank you. Because if it wasn’t for finding that book in my Jr. High library I’m fairly sure the trajectory of my life would have been very different.

Upon signing my book deal I had to fill out an Author questionnaire. I’ve been sitting on it for two weeks because I don’t know what the heck I’m doing. One of the questions asks for people you would like to endorse you. I immediately thought of you. I’m sure you get stuff like this all of the time and I’m probably going about this all wrong, but I would love to share what I have written with you. I hope I have the same effect on readers that you had on me.

Phyllis replied:

I appreciate your thinking of me, and am glad you enjoyed your first Alice book. Your email follows one by another new author, in which my answer has to be the same.  If I did this for one person, I would be obligated to do it for all.  And if I did this for all who request it, there would be no more books by me because I wouldn’t have time to write my own.  I’ve never asked other authors to endorse me, because I think that the things you read on book jackets ought to be about the story itself–the characters and plot–and not an endorsement by another author.  As a reader, I want to make up my own mind.  Work hard to see that what you and your editor put on  your book jacket is something about the story that will entice a reader to settle down with it, and excitedly turn each page!