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Shiloh movies

Comment:

Do you still have Shiloh movies to loan out?

Phyllis replied:

I’m sorry that I am all out of them–I had hoped to loan out a few, but that didn’t work so well.  If you keep checking Amazon–its list of CD’s, in fact, you’ll often find DVDs of the three Shiloh movies–sometimes packaged together.  Look for used copies as well.

Posted on: March 27, 2022

Shiloh movie now available

For teachers who have wanted to use the Shiloh movie in connection with the book and have been unable to find it, the producers have sent me several copies that I might loan out to you.  I would need your name and the address of the school, as well as your signature and that of your principal or supervisor.  To arrange this free loan, please contact me at this second email address:  phyllis_naylor@comcast.net

Posted on: February 18, 2021

DVD of Shiloh movie

FOR TEACHERS:  Since I posted yesterday, Amazon has raised their price for the one new copy they were selling of the Shiloh movie DVD from $57 to $134 or something.  They do refer you to two used DVDs for around $15 the last I checked.   That might be the only way to get the movie for your class.  Phyllis

Posted on: February 8, 2021

SHILOH Zoom Sessions with author

Comment:

My students would love to meet you on Zoom.  We are reading the Shiloh books in class and have so many questions.  Is it possible that this could happen?

Phyllis replied:

I have been getting so many requests for this, and I know that teachers are having a really difficult time right now, some teaching from home, some from school, on and off again, and if a 15-minute Zoom session with your class would help, I will try to fit in a few a week and see how it works out.   You’d  have to make it easy for me–have a link set up so that all I have to do is click it;  you would need to have finished reading at least the first book in the series, Shiloh,  and have a little practice with students speaking slowly and loud enough and distinct.  If you are allowing each child to ask a question, please make sure that the same questions are not being asked over and over again.   I’m sorry I can’t give you more than 15 minutes per class, but we’ll try to make each minute count.

Posted on: December 12, 2020

Permission to read online

Comment:

I am also in the middle of reading Shiloh to my ELA class. I would love to continue reading it aloud and posting it in my Google Classroom. Would you be ok if I follow the same rules that you set for the previous school teacher?Thank you for your consideration.

 

Phyllis replied:

Yes, the same rules apply to educators wishing to read aloud from my books to homebound students during this covid-19 crisis.   You have my permission as long as you are putting the reading on a private “channel” (not youtube) accessible only by your students, and only for this crisis.

Posted on: March 18, 2020

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!

 

Posted on: January 27, 2019

Would you read my manuscript?

Comment:

I understand the need and desire for diverse stories by diverse writers in the classroom, and I have written one that I think has the potential to influence children and middle schoolers and increase their empathy and understanding of other countries.  I completely understand if you feel you must decline, but I have to ask. Would you be interested in reading my story and if you enjoy it, possible giving a quote?

Phyllis replied:

I’m sorry, but there aren’t enough hours in the day to do all I want and need to do.  I am deeply involved in a novel of my own and approach each week wondering if there isn’t a dinner reservation I can cancel or a doctor’s appointment I can postpone, just to give me a few hours of extra time.  Authors  receive many requests to do this, but we only have 24 hours a day, like everyone else.  But I do sincerely hope that your book finds a home.

 

Posted on: January 25, 2019

Student letters

Comment: I am a librarian at an elementary school in Indiana. The 5th graders here are doing book reports and writing letters to the authors. I was wondering what the best way was to get a letter or two to you. An email address possibly? They are excited about writing and I am helping deliver. Thanks!

Phyllis replied:

They may address letters to me at 401 Russell Ave., Apt 713, Gaithersburg, MD 20877

Posted on: January 21, 2019

What happened to Judd’s dogs?

Comment:

What happens to Judd’s other dogs? I liked the book it was one of the best I have read.

Phyllis replied:

If you read the other three books in the Shiloh quartet–Shiloh Season, Saving Shiloh, A Shiloh Christmas– you’ll find out what happens to each of Judd’s dogs.

Posted on: January 16, 2019

The Fear Place

Comment:

Where did you get inspiration for this book?Is it from friend or family, or were you in this situation yourself?

Phyllis replied:

I’ve been afraid of heights for a long time.  When my husband and I and our two young adult sons were visiting Estes Park, my sons decided they were going to get up at 3 AM some morning and climb Long’s Peak.  I was terrified.  I thought they were supposed to have some kind of climbing equipment before a climb like that.   They had already gotten information from the park ranger, but still, I was petrified.  They had told me they had to start out very early so that they could get back before late afternoon of the next day, when storms often rolled in on the mountains.  While they were gone, I knew that the only way I could emotionally get through the day, worrying about them, was to begin writing another novel.  So even though it was about two brothers in the Rockies, at least it spread my worries around over 4 boys, not just two, and so I got a book out of a scary experience, and Mike and Jeff arrived back safely.

Posted on: December 13, 2018

 

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