What inspired you?

I, currently, really like your Alice book series. And I just want to ask you a question.

Question:

What inspired you to write the Alice books?

It’s just that . . . your Alice books are just amazing. It’s so life-like and real. It’s not like other novels that you read.

Phyllis replied:

I just wanted to write a book about a motherless girl looking for a role model. I didn’t plan for the one book to be the start of a series, but so many readers wrote asking what happened next, that I decided to make it a series, as long as Alice could grow older in each book, and I didn’t have to write more than one book per year.