Thank you!

I’m sure you get this a lot, but I just wanted to say thank you for writing the Alice series! I started reading the series a over decade ago, when I was an awkward, unconfident middle school girl trying to figure out how to be one of the “cool kids”, as cliche as it sounds now. In fact, I remember the first time I checked out an Alice book was when I saw one of the “cool” girls at school reading one. Thinking back now I wonder, “Wow, it’s so crazy to think how much both of us actually related to Alice, even though we seemed to come from two completely different worlds.” The last time I picked up an Alice book was probably sometime my freshman year of college, but I never did end up finishing the series! To be honest, I forgot about Alice for a while until I went on a walk earlier today. To my surprise, even my mom remembered the Alice books I had and mentioned how I had later donated them to a family friend’s daughter, who was a few years younger than me at the time. I really hope she found the books to be as much of a treasure trove of wisdom, knowledge, and inspiration as I did growing up! In fact, remembering that made me realize how much of an impact this series had on me as an adolescent and how many of the things Alice experienced in high school are still very relevant to me in my mid-20s. I hope that I can eventually finish the series and that I am able to have a daughter of my own one day with whom I can have the privilege of sharing Alice’s quirky and relatable narratives with.

Hope you are doing well during these unprecedented times!

I am doing well, thank you, but long to be able to meet with my authors’ critique group again, and my chorale group, and go out to dinner with friends and family.  I’m so glad you remember the Alice books.  Believe me:  you are definitely going to want to read to the end of the series, because the very last book takes her from age 18 to 60, and SO much happens in her life.  It was kind of you to donate the books to a family friend, and I hope you are able to get copies of whichever of the 28 books you are missing.  Thanks so much for writing!