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Category: sci-fi

English girls’ school with fairies

May 22, 2012May 24, 2017 ~ writerworking ~ 1 Comment

If Naomi Novik's novels are the Napoleonic Wars with dragons, Jo Walton's Among Others is English girls' school with fairies. This is a strange, unclassifiable novel. Is it adult or young-adult? Is it literary fiction or fantasy, or magical realism, or ...? Whatever it is, it's wonderful. The voice of the 15-year-old protagonist, who is … Continue reading English girls’ school with fairies

No, No Nano

November 1, 2010May 24, 2017 ~ writerworking ~ Leave a comment

So I am not doing NaNoWriMo because I'm concentrating on revising my middle-grade sci-fi novel, Invasion. And writing some on my current WIP, Rosalita, a YA urban paranormal.I have gotten some fascinating feedback on Invasion from two first-rate agencies with permission to resubmit after revisions. And from Ellen Hopkins, author of Crank, and its sequels.The … Continue reading No, No Nano

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About Lyda

Lyda Phillips was born in San Antonio, Texas, went to school in Memphis, Tenn., and has degrees from Northwestern, Columbia and Vanderbilt universities. She has worked as a journalist for trade papers, weeklies, dailies and United Press International. She has also worked for political campaigns, as a political pollster and public relations executive. 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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