Mr. Touchdown Wins Writers Notes Book Award
Mar-23-2006
SILVER SPRING, Md.—Author Lyda Phillips’ desegregation novel Mr. Touchdown has won first-place in the national 2006 Writers Notes Book Awards in the young-adult category.
Writers Notes Book Awards honor books published by independent and small presses, self-publishers and unique or short print runs.
“With rich description and smooth dialogue, this can’t-put-down novel moves us to the heart of the high-pressure choices and explosive changes faced by Eddie Russell, his sister Lakeesha, and friends as they become the first black students to integrate all-white Forrest High in the autumn of 1965,” the judges said of Mr. Touchdown. “It’s a balanced and vividly accurate portrayal of the violence, personal struggles, and inter-generational and community undercurrents of desegregation and non-violent movements for social justice of the 1950s and ‘60s.”
Mr. Touchdown is available online through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and iUniverse, as well as at all booksellers through Ingram and Baker & Taylor distributors (July 29, 2005, ISBN 0-595-67288-4 hardcover $23.95; ISBN 0-595-35900-0 trade paperback, $13.95).
More information about the Writers Notes awards is available at hopepubs.home.comcast.net/writers.html.
Lyda Phillips is an award-winning journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. A native of San Antonio, she went to school in Memphis, Tennessee, and has degrees from Northwestern, Columbia, and Vanderbilt universities. She lives in Maryland with her family. More information about her is available at www.lydaphillips.com.
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