..."Phyllis Smallman is a gifted writer, and has a strong and captivating protagonist in Sherri Travis..... Her works are attracting a growing legion of admiring fans"...
Jim Napier~ The Sherbrooke Record

Interview with Kathy-Diane Leveille on her blog site "Behind the Books" on November 16th, 2009.

Interview with  Poe's Deadly Daughters   blog site on November 21st, 2009

"The Skill is there: an author adept at moving a story line at a good clip towards a surprizing climax.... Sex in a Sidecar is a refreshing summer read."....Don Graves~
The Hamilton Spectator


For me, writing is imagination coming out to play with memory.

Sherri Travis is a woman haunted by memories. Set along the mangrove coast of Florida, Sherri's stories weave in and out of bars, beaches and swamps, the narrative of an ordinary person, caught up in extraordinary circumstances.

In Sherri's world survival sometimes depends on very small things, like a conversation overheard or having a friend .

In a place where the very rich live next door to the very poor, where tourists come and go, and newcomers reinvent themselves, reality blurs with the shifting tides, and all good stories begin, "One night in a bar..."



           Photo by Linda Matteson-Reynolds


Video Interview


…... "characters you'd love to have a drink with and a sense of place that captures the essence of the Sunshine State.".... Don Graves- Hamilton Spectator


"Phyllis Smallman, remember that name"... Louise Penny blog


Phyllis Smallman was the first ever recipient of the Arthur Ellis Award for Unhanged Arthur from Crime Writers of Canada in June 2007. She was short listed for the Debut Dagger by the Crime Writers of the UK , and nominated for the Malice Domestic Award in the U.S.A..
Margarita Nights was published in 2008 by McArthur and Co Publishers. It has just been short listed for the Best first Novel of 2008 by the Crime Writers of Canada