What Inspired You?

Phyllis replied:

Thank you.   When I wrote the first Alice book, I didn’t know it was going to be a series.  I just wanted to write about a motherless girl who is looking for a role model, and has to ask her dad and older brother all her questions.  Just wanting to do something is all the inspiration I need.  As for book jackets, each time a new book comes out, the editor and art department think of a new way to present the book.  When photographs of models are used, the art department rarely uses the same ones from book to book.   Models get older much faster than Alice does in the Alice books, you realize.  I write three books, coming out in three years,  of only one year of Alice’s life.  So Alice is aging only a third as fast as real people.