Lyda Phillips

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.

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

SCREENPLAYS:

NEVER TOUCHED HER, a romantic comedy by Lyda Phillips and Susan Baronoff

A marine biologist's plans for blissful single motherhood are trashed when the sperm donor moves in next door.

Reading: August 5, 2007,Venice, California

SEMI-FINALIST (top 20): Acclaim Film Writing Contest 2009

LONG'S PEAK, Western romanace

An eccentric English spinster falls for a Western desperado against the backdrop of an 1870s Colorado land grab scheme.

SEMIFINALIST: 2007 Writers on the Storm contest (top 50)

ROUND II: 2007 Slamdance screenplay competition

Third Place 1999 Pikes Peak Writers Conference contest, screenplay category.