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ABOUT LYDA AND HER WRITING Her real love has always been writing. Lyda Phillips' novels have been featured at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., on Memphis television talk show WREG's Live@9 and at the Downtown Memphis Rotary Club; the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Tenn., the Children's Multicultural Book Festival at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Inde Pen Series at Karibu Books, and the Baltimore Book Festival. |
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NOVELS: Mr. Touchdown - FIRST PLACE, Writers Notes Book Awards, juvenile fiction, HONORABLE MENTION, Independent Publishers Book Awards, multicultural juvenile fiction. Peace I Ask of Thee, Oh River - FIRST PLACE, Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Awards, juvenile fiction; FINALIST, Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards, young adult fiction
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Other Novels for Young Readers: FALCON'S WAY: Shared danger breaks down the emotional barriers between a boy and his father, who can’t talk about the death of the boy’s mother. Second Place 1999 Pikes Peak Writers Conference contest, children's fiction REDBONE: In Depression-era Louisiana, Dibby Winslow defies the prejudices of his community, and even his own family, to save a mixed-race Redbone family in the wake of a lynching. BLUE HOLE: In this sequel to Redbone, Dibby Winslow and his sister, Agnes, fight their own father to save the family’s last stand of virgin pine timber and their beloved blue hole spring deep in the woods. GRANNYNAPPING: Reg Richards, determined to find his father who ran away to New Orleans with a client, seizes his opportunity when he’s asked to accompany his disagreeable grandmother on a trip to visit her sister. |
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