by Phyllis | May 28, 2020 | Phyllis Wheeler's Books
Elk Lake Publishing will be publishing a book of mine in about a year, I’m happy to announce. The book, a middle-grade novel, features time travel. I’m not going to tell you anything more about it right now. Sign up for my occasional newsletter if you want...
by Phyllis | Jul 25, 2019 | Phyllis Wheeler's Books
Getting published take time when you’re not indie publishing. Which I am not. So, I have five book manuscripts in various states of finish. I’m hopeful for all of them, of course! And so glad to have an agent, Bob Shuman! I went to two writers’...
by Phyllis | Jan 9, 2018 | Phyllis Wheeler's Books
As you know, my loyal fans, I’ve been working on learning the novel-writing craft for about twelve years. I’ve learned a lot along the way, and I’ve been able to bless others as an editor and publisher. But my own fiction work remains unpublished....
by Phyllis | Dec 7, 2017 | Family history, heirlooms, Thoughts to share
My great-aunt, Ella Hough, was an amazing artist. I know because I have her sketchbook. She was born in 1868 to Thomas Hough and his wife Jane. Thomas was a successful entrepreneur who immigrated in his early twenties from Yorkshire, England, in about 1865. He’d...
by Phyllis | Jun 6, 2016 | Film reviews, Thoughts to share
A teen-aged Jane Austen wrote a novella that she never even titled, much less published herself. It’s been called Lady Susan, and now it’s been made into a movie, “Love and Friendship.” Austen is known for originating the romance novel. She...
by Phyllis | Mar 30, 2016 | Book reviews
Crispin: The Cross of Lead, by Avi, Book 1 in the Crispin trilogy Published 2002 by Hyperion Books for Children, New York, 262 pages Genre: Historical drama for tweens This book won the Newbery Award when it was published, and more recently the author has published...
by Phyllis | Aug 18, 2015 | Thoughts to share
Monster the car is grinning. He thinks he won. I’ve been fighting with this car ever since we got him, nearly ten years ago. Took him home, and our mechanic discovered somebody had put antifreeze where the brake fluid ought to be. The car had that cheesy grin...
by Phyllis | Aug 4, 2015 | heirlooms
Jane Ruth Elder, my mother, grew up in Tacoma, Washington, during the Depression in the family of a teacher. In those days, teachers were paid little. It became apparent that her parents could not afford music lessons for her, even though that is what she wanted more...
by Phyllis | Jul 28, 2015 | heirlooms
This slide rule belonged to my dad, the engineer. Eldred W. Hough, although he was the oldest son, wasn’t named for his father, Thomas C. Hough. Instead, his younger brother got the name Thomas Hough. So, why did the younger one get the father’s name?...
