Alice Blog

So Good!

Question:

More Alice books?

Question:

Thank you so much! I am sorry about that email. don’t know what i was thinking. Okay, my question was…… are there going to be anymore Alice books???? I am really excited about reading the next one after intensely Alice. I am also looking forward to reading your newer book Faith, Hope, and Ivy June. I am going to try to check it out of my school library. Thanks for your time!

Phyllis replied:

I’m glad you like the Alice books.  There is already a book published since “Intensely Alice;”  read “Alice in Charge.”  Next June look for “Incredibly Alice.”  Then there will be two final books after that before the series is over.

Inspiration

Question:

I am in seventh grade I want to be a writer when I grow up, and was wondering if maybe you could share a little bit of your talent with me. What I would like to know most is where you get your inspiration. I think your books are wonderful I love how you put so much feeling into them it shows me that there are no people alike and every person has there flaws.

Phyllis replied:

Inspiration comes from things that happen in your own life–feelings you have about them–and things friends tell you, things you read about in the paper….  The older you get, and the more experience you have, the more you have to inspire you.  Please read my book, “How I came to be a Writer,” and best of luck in your own writing.

So Incredible and Awesome

What’s Going on with Us?

Question:

Phyllis replied:

Sure sounds to me as though he likes you.   Maybe he’s curious, too.  Some people are very much attracted to those who are at all different from themselves in some way.   Why don’t you just stay friends with him, and treat him like all your other friends?  You don’t have to say you don’t like him if you do.  Just laughingly answer, if people ask, “Sure!  I like lots of people.”

A Writer’s Notebook?

Question:

In my class I Have to do a power point with your Favorite Author, I picked you. One of the Questions I need to ask you is, do you have a writers notebook?

If you don’t us one, wherere do you write down your ideas? I  looked on all of your web sites and I couldn’t find out if you had a writers notebook. Please write back soon.

Phyllis replied:

I keep a small notebook in my purse, and jot down a few sentences about ideas that come to me if I’m away from home.  Here at home, I keep a 3-ring notebook for every book that I am currently thinking about writing–not just wisps of ideas that may some day become a book–but ideas that excite me enough that they are in line to become books.  Whenever I get a new idea about that particular book–plot, character, setting, research, etc.–I write it in that notebook, so that by the time I’m ready to start writing the actual book, that notebook may be an inch or two thick with ideas.  

My Mom Doesn’t Want me To

Question:

I have read the first 2 or 3 Alice books, and I really like them and I want to read more, but my mom doesn’t want me to because she thinks they are too mature for me!

Phyllis replied:

I can’t overrule your mom.  But you might ask if you can read the next Alice book together, so that you could ask her questions about anything you might not understand?

I Love Being Around Those I Love

It’s Not Fair

Question:

I just wanted to let you know that it is not fair for you to say we can ask you questions on here and you not answer. This is my third email to you. I sent you my first email almost over a month ago and you still haven’t replied. Thank you for your time.

Phyllis replied:

No, it’s not fair, and I truly apologize if any of your emails have gone unanswered for more than a week.  Sometimes I am swamped with writing deadlines–perhaps a manuscript that I thought had gone to the copy-editor comes back from the editor wanting major changes–and   my personal life–as well as this fan mail page–gets put on hold.  And once in a while my computer acts up, or I press the wrong keys, and I lose letters and can’t find them again.  If anyone has written to me and not received an answer within a week, please do write to me again, and tell me it’s your second try.  I’ll move you to the head of the line.

Huge Problem

Question:

I have a huge problem. You see, there is this guy I really, really, really, like (mostly I love him), but it is so hard for me to tell him how I feel. He and I have been friends for three years now and he used to like me (he might still) and I totally love him to bits. But, ever since he came to my school, he has been treating me like I don’t exist. Why is that so? I want to tell him how I feel but when he looks me in the eyes, I freeze up and act like a total idiot. I have tried at least several times to tell him how I feel. I just can’t do it. But, I keep trying no matter what. All of my friends think he is a total jerk to me, but they don’t know him like I know him. He is a year younger than me. Okay, let me tell you how this all happened.