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The Pulpwood Queen Begins With Saying “Once Upon A Time”!

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Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) Tweeted: Here's wishing you all a safe, happy and prosperous 2021... https://t.co/COgpPzPEQJ https://twitter.com/iamsrk/status/1345245637676208131?s=20 HAPPY NEW YEAR! I woke up this morning first to see this tweet above from Shah Rukh Kahn who seriously got me through this year of the Covid virus and our time of social distancing.  I have seen all his films, many over and over, and watched every speech, every talk, and every post on YouTube, Facebook, and …

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The Pulpwood Queen Featured Authors, Presenters, and Moderators CONFIRMED for our 2021 Girlfriend Weekend Zoomathon Slumber Party!

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Dear Readers, I have had so much to reflect on this year during out time of social distancing during the Covid -19 pandemic, I have to tell you that when I look at the big picture, I realize that I have found myself.  Yes, a small town Kansas girl has accomplished a lot in my life.  Mostly through trials and errors but instead of failures, I call those attempts "discoveries", as in I discovered that did not work. What I have also found is that when you "follow your bliss" that for me is …

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The Pulpwood Queen Goes to California with A Book Upon Her Knee!

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My daughters, Madeleine Alexandrite, Helaina Amethyst Wilkerson and my grand son Hawthorne with my Aunt Marti Whitmer at our 2020 Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend Book Club Convention this past January! Dear Readers, In this time of social distancing I have a lot of time to reflect on who I am, where I am going, and what is my story. I began this journey by doing a DNA test and was surprised. I was told all my life I had Native Indian Heritage, Cherokee in fact, I was wrong. When I …

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The Pulpwood Queen Goes Hollywood!

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My mother, Mary L. Murphy, crowned Ms 3D at Emporia State Teacher's College now Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas when she was a student in the 50's as a Speech and Drama Major. Dear Readers, Nobody was a bigger fan of the big screen than my mother, you see her dream was to become a movie star. She bravely traveled by train to Hollywood back in the 50's to see if she could get discovered. You can read all about it my book, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide …

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The Pulpwood Announces 2022 Girlfriend Weekend Featured Authors and Presenters!

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Dear Readers! Check out so far our CONFIRMED Keynote Authors and Presenters for our up and coming 2022 Pulpwood Queen Book Club Girlfriend Weekend, location to be announced at https://www.facebook.com/Pulpwoodqueen/media_set?set=a.10219958205440275&type=3 <iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPulpwoodqueen%2Fposts%2F10219965623945733&width=500" width="500" height="708" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" …

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The Pulpwood Queen Launches “Feather Your Nest”!

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Dear Readers! Today I am launching a NEW blog called "Feather Your Nest" which will be a monthly blog on my Pulpwood Queen authors, writers, book club members, and art clients homes that have purchased my art for their homes.  We will get to know how they "Feather Their Nest" as we learn of their decorating styles, their collections, whether art, books, or from their travels.  We will learn of their favorite books, their libraries, and what books they may have written or are writing. And the …

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The Pulpwood Queen on her Forever Quest for the NEXT BEST READ!

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Dear Readers! During this time of social distancing during the Covid - 19 global pandemic I have been on a mission to read, write, paint, create, feather my nest, and to educate, enlighten, and entertain myself to keep me fully engaged in turning a negative into a positive.  I have learned how to be alone with myself.  A daunting task because I am no easy person to be with, I can't sit still.  I need work, good work to keep me busy and have found it so never been more productive in my …

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The Pulpwood Queen Wants You to Watch This Film, “Billu”!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjT_s3m6t2Y&list=PLJ7Ozx-BB0y0EqP8TJNx3OGQG3L7AdN5U&index=20&t=0s&app=desktop Dear Readers, I watched this film some time ago and shortly after one of it's stars, Irrfan Khan, died suddenly and I have been mourning ever since.  You may recognize him from the film, "Slumdog Millionaire" but every role he has played is sheer gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_agFp1PMnM I want you all to watch this film either on youtube.com or …

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The Pulpwood Queen Shares her Valentine Writing Room!

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Pulpwood Queen Book Club Author, Mary Ann Henry wanted to know where I wrote at home and this is my home office in all it’s creative chaotic glory! This is where I email you, send my blog posts, and work on my three books in progress! All these cherry reds to rose pinks get me fired up. Create the space that get your creative juices flowing! This is my Valentine Writing Room and my life’s blood pouring out on the page word by word to you! This is my Valentine year …

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The Pulpwood Queen Wants to Connect Through the Sharing of Stories!

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The Pulpwood Queen Has Breaking News Regarding 2022 Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend!

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BREAKING NEWS! The Pulpwood Queens Book Club annual convention to restart January 2022 on Martin Luther King Weekend has now partnered with The Pat Conroy Literary Center and The Dolly Parton Imagination Library. Each will have their own panel and so very, very excited. You can check out both their websites at www.patconroyliterarycenter.org Jonathan Haupt, The Executive Director of The Pat Conroy Literary …

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The Pulpwood Queen in Planning Stages of Going more DIVERSE and GLOBAL!

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  Dear Readers, Besides all I do, this week's focus is on global literacy. I am already hard at work to get more people on board our Pulpwood Queen Book Club Reading Nation and to find more books of diversity of from writers and authors around the world. This coming year's theme is "A Whole New World" and get ready for some exciting news as we proceed into our 21st year of reading altogether as Pulpwood Queen and Timber Guy Book Club readers. To join go to …

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Full Program on Press Release for 2020 Pulpwood Queens Girlfriend Weekend Book Club Convention!

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PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Kathy L. Murphy, Founder of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club Girlfriend Weekend Email: thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com Website: www.thepulpwoodqueens.com   TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT! January 16 – 18, 2020 The Jefferson Visitor & Tourism Center 305 East Austin Street, Jefferson, TX 75657 THURSDAY 1:00 p.m. Registration opens for Girlfriend Weekend at The Jefferson Tourism & Convention Center located just over the railroad …

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The Pulpwood Queen Talks About the Benefits of Traveling for Literary Adventures!

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Dear Readers, Just back from a whirlwind of literary adventure in California and as I listen to the rainfall, drinking from my new Queen Mary mug of dark black coffee now fully rested from my trip, I am reflecting on the experiences and wonderful memories of travel.  You see my best childhood friend, Heidi Surber Teichgraeber and I traveled first to Long Beach to attend Patricia V. Davis's book launch event aboard the Queen Mary.  All the stars aligned to do this and we were given such a …

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The Pulpwood Queen Announces “The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 year’s Pre-order Date”!

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Greetings from The Pulpwood Queen! So happy to announce that August 1st will be the laydown date to pre-order our book, "The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years" edited by Susan Cushman, Dedicated To Tiajuana Anderson Neel with Foreward by Kathy L. Murphy, Introduction by Robert Hicks, Afterword by Jonathan Haupt, cover by Nicole Seitz and published by Brother Mockingbird Publishing. All these came together as first Claire Fullerton wrote a feature for Southern Writer's magazine blog on her …

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Update on Summer into Fall Pulpwood Queen Calendar of Events!

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Here is the updated now Pulpwood Queen Calendar of Events going into Fall 2019! Finalists Named in Cinderella to CEO Awards August 8, 2019 Awards Luncheon Honors Women Who Transform, Inspire & Empower July 1, 2019 - New York, NY - The Cinderella to CEO Awards, to be held Thursday, August 8 in New York City, will highlight 36 award finalists and 200+ nominees who have inspiring, modern, tales of transformation, changing the world for the better. Nine category winners, to be chosen …

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The Pulpwood Queen Reports from Memphis/Collierville, Tennessee on Last Day of Tour!

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Dear Readers, With nearly 60 hours of driving, over 3,000 miles visiting Pulpwood Queens, traveling 11 states from Holly Lake Ranch, Texas to Westport, Connecticut to visit our book club authors and artist friends, The Pulpwood Queen is weary but her heart is full to bursting.  Tiajuana Anderson Neel and I have had an excellent Pulpwood Queen Pop-Up "Warrior Goddess" Art and Fashion Book Tour!  We have renewed friendships to last a lifetime, shown our art and fashions,delivered commissioned …

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The Pulpwood Queen Headed to Westport, Connecticut on “Warrior Goddess” Art and Fashion Book Tour!

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Kathy L. Murphy, Tiajuana Anderson Neel, and Melissa Conroy   Dear Readers, Leaving bright and early from Philadelphia, Pa to travel to Baltimore, Maryland.  The Pulpwood Queen, a.k.a. Kathy L. Murphy has been on a Pulpwood Queen "Warrior Goddess" Pop-Up Art and Book Tour with her bestie, Pulpwood Queen Tiajuana Anderson Neel.  Yesterday we arrived to meet Author, Artist Melissa Conroy, and family and have a big time ever since.  The trip all started as I am an artist too and I …

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Pulpwood Queen Book Club Author Ends Her East Texas Tour in Tyler, Texas!

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' Dear Readers, Making this short and sweet as leaving before rooster crows tomorrow morning for my Pulpwood Queen "Warrior Goddess" Art and Fashion Tour.  Toyota FJ Cruiser packed at Tiajuana Anderson Neels now so we can hit the road! Today we did our last two events with our Author of the Month, Romalyn Tilghman of "To the Stars Through Difficulties! Though a smaller crowd at Barnes and Noble first, then the Tyler Public Library, those that did attend were very enthusiastic and …

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What Makes The Pulpwood Queen Tick, Part I!

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Entrance to Kathy L. Murphy's Little Cabin in the Woods, Murphy's Law and Art Studio! Dear Readers, What in the world makes the Pulpwood Queen bound out of bed in the morning!  What makes her tick, you might ask? After one semester of graduating from college and trying to figure out exactly that,  I think I finally figured it out.  It is now my time to do what I want to do, period.  All our lives we work and work hard to get ahead, to earn what we think we need to purchase, what we think …

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The Pulpwood Queen Last Post on Breathless Bubbles and Books This Week!

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Today is my last day to host as guest author at Breathless Bubbles and Books this week. To say I am excited about the pairings of my Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club selections with Breathless Wines is a supreme understatement. Running the largest "meeting and discussing" book club in the world it is a challenge that leads me to a story about wine that is so important to book club meetings as follows.   At the beginning of my book, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book …

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The Pulpwood Queen Shares BIG NEWS from our Author, Rebecca Rosenberg!

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The Pulpwood Queen Shares BIG NEWS from our Author, Rebecca Rosenberg!   Schedule author Rebecca Rosenberg for your July Pulpwood Queens Meeting! ​ Greetings PULPWOOD QUEENS! I am tickled to death that the Pulpwood Queen herself, Kathy L. Murphy selected THE SECRET LIFE OF MRS. LONDON for the July read! Schedule your Facetime, Skype or Zoom bookclub meetings now and email your date/time request to me at rebecca@rebecca-rosenberg. Several meetings are scheduled …

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The Pulpwood Queen Ran Away with the Book Loving Circus, Won’t You Join Me!

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Kathy L. Murphy as The Ringmaster at her circus themed Girlfriend Weekend Author Extravagana   Good Morning from East Texas and Holly Lake Ranch! I bounded out of bed this morning because I had this dream, right before I work up, on what I was going to write today. You see, my life my book-loving Breathless Bubbles and Book friends, is a three-ring circus and I am the Ringmaster. I juggle many balls in my life. I am an artist, the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club founder …

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The Pulpwood Queen Talks About The Power of the Story!

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Dear friends, Pulpwood Queen Author, Kerry Madden-Lunsford One thing I know for true, the power of the story can change everything.  I have said this before and I will say it again, read aloud to your babies, your children, your friends, and family, to strangers.  Reading aloud is telling a story.  Yesterday Pulpwood Queen author, Kerry Madden-Lunsford shared a feature as she wrote about this, …

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The Pulpwood Queen Welcomes Guest Blogger, Author Peter Golden!

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Dear Readers, My MacBook Air may be on its last leg so posting this series of blogs by Pulpwood Queen Book Club Author Peter Golden before it totally crashes.  Peter was brought to my attention by Shelf Awareness Guru Robert Gray.  I read his columns volraciously and he mentioned Peter and his first book.  I read it and had found a NEW author to bring to our fold and now this is his third book that I have selected as an Official Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys read by Peter Golden!  Thanks, …

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The Pulpwood Queen Crowns Stephanie Chance Queen for Forever!

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This morning I wrote about my dear, dear friend Stephanie Chance but I decided to also share that post below on this blog and write a bit more.  Sometimes God places people in your life that you have come to realize are worth more than all the diamonds and successes in the world.  One of those people is Stephanie Chance.  Here are just a few of our photos of our big adventures then you can read what I posted on Facebook today.  Everybody should be so very fortunate to have a friend like …

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The Pulpwood Queen Speaks to Silver Leos Writers Guild at Texas A & M in Commerce, Texas!

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Yesterday, Tiajuana Anderson Neel and I headed to Texas A & M University in Commerce, Texas to speak to the Silver Leos Writers Guild invited by Sharon Lamkin Feldt.  This past Saturday they had done a fundraiser for my dear friend the late great Dr. Fred Tarpley who amongst many things wrote one of the best books on Jefferson, Texas out there.  Featured at that conference were Pulpwood Queen Book Club Authors, Bobbi Kornblit and Reavis Wortham, who will be my co-host at the next …

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The Pulpwood Queens Talks of AHA Moments!

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Today's blog I wish to discuss those AHA moments.  That was a new phrase for me back years and years ago when I first began writing "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" published by Grand Central Publishing  My literary agent, Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff and Associates in New Yor, who gave me the title for my book on my memoir on how books saved me and why on was on a mission to get everybody reading, asked me to write of AHA moments when writing my book.  "What is …

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The Pulpwood Queen Talks About Libraries and Shares a Special Author!

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Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club members and readers everywhere, Above is the is the Eureka Carnegie Library that I wrote about in my book, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life".  This was my sanctuary and the one place I could go and make the most amazing discoveries.  Walking up those stairs back in the 60's seem ominous to me but as I entered the sweet librarians welcomed me with open arms and gave me a treasure trove of reading.  I would never …

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The Pulpwood Queen Says “Let me be like Scout”, from “To Kill a Mockingbird”!

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Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club members and readers everywhere, Life is hard.  I woke up this morning thinking about the state of affairs of the world today.  Time to get real.  Everything that I have learned come from a lifetime of reading books.  I was a pretty naive kid, small-town Kansas born and raised.  I had no street smarts, shy, introverted, I escaped into books when things got really scary.  I am the same way now in many ways.  I have just learned to mask my fears …

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Official 2024 International Pulpwood Queen and Timber Guy Book Club Selections

  Official 2024 International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Reading Nation Books of the Month   January Book of the Month: "Lady Tan's Circle of Women: A Novel" by Lisa See January International Book of the Month: "Once And For All: Book Two: Winds of Fire Series" by Anju Gattani January Bonus Book Club Selections: "How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies" by Amy Wallen   "The Marsh King's Daughter" by Karen …

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International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Convention Packages and Tickets!

Get Your Package for the 2024 International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Convention Today! January 12th, 13th, and 14th, 2024 2024 INTERNATIONAL PULPWOOD QUEENS AND TIMBER GUYS ZOOM ONLINE BOOK CLUB CONVENTION THAT WE CALL GIRLFRIEND WEEKEND! JANUARY 12TH – 14TH, 2024 OFFICIAL OPENING FRIDAY NIGHT: JANUARY 12TH, 2024, 5:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M. CST The Pulpwood Queen BARBIE LAND themed “Meet and Greet” with our …

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