Author Nell Phillips' book has become a surprise best-seller of the xmas season. Nell's last stop on a book tour takes her the Annals of Emmett Turner, a man she met over five years ago while both were copy editors at a New York publishing business. Nell was hurt when Emmett stood her up for a dinner and disappeared from New York. As Nell is quick to admit, the colorful, nostalgic anecdotes about Springdale of Emmett motivated her to create.