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 …
The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years, Read All About It!
Dear Readers from Jonathan Haupt today on Facebook: Jonathan Haupt 12 hrs · I'm honored to have been given the opportunity to contribute an afterword to the anthology The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years, forthcoming this December--edited by Susan Cushman with an introduction by Pulpwood Queens founder Kathy L. Murphy and a foreword by Robert Hicks. This collection celebrates the remarkable community of readers and writers at the …
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The Pulpwood Queen Announces “The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 year’s Pre-order Date”!
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 …
The Pulpwood Queen Announces New Book COVER REVEAL!
Press Release for Immediate Release: July 12, 2020 Today we are announcing the cover reveal of our latest book, The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years! edited by Susan Cushman, Introduction by Kathy L. Murphy, Foreward by Robert Hicks, Afterword by Jonathan Haupt, Executive Director of The Pat Conroy Literary Center, Cover by Artist/Author, Nicole Seitz, and published by Brother Mockingbird. In 2020, the Pulpwood Queens---and their male counterparts, the Timber Guys---are celebrating …
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The Pulpwood Queen Reporting from the Road on Yet another ROAD TRIP with Tiajuana!
Dear Readers, It all began with a pair of pants. A pair of pants that was worn by author, Pat Conroy during his years of writing"Beach Music" to be specific. Those pants were donated by Pat to my Author Silent Auction that is held ever year during my annual Pulpwood Queen Book Club Convention we call Girlfriend Weekend to fund literacy endeavors and literary charities. They went for quite a fee, nearly $1,000. An author, by the name of M.L. Malcolm won the final bid. Lucky girl as Pat …
The Pulpwood Queen is Beginning to See the Fruits of her Book Clubs “Literacy” Promoting Labors!
Dear Readers, Below you will read a message that was in my inbox today of the 2nd Annual Lowcountry Book Club Convention. As I am currently working on my next book, "The Pulpwood Queen Goes Back to School" it has been nearly ten years since I published my first book, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" now published under my maiden name Kathy L. Murphy with a New cover and New forward. Pat Conroy and his lovely and talented wife, Cassandra King Conroy both …
The Pulpwood Queen Declares Happy Book Birthday to OUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES!
Dear Readers, Happy Book Birthday to OUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES this September 18, 2018, edited by Nicole Seitz and Jonathan Haupt. I am one of the nearly 70 writers and authors who contributed to this book which was one of the proudest accomplishments of my life. You see, Pat Conroy was my favorite all-time author and to be asked to tell my story was such an honor and a privilege, I can never thank the editors enough. Authors, Pat Conroy and John Warley Though I contributed my story, I …
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The Pulpwood Queen Announces Poet, Tim Conroy Will do a Special Presentation at our 2019 Girlfriend Weekend!
Poet, Tim Conroy Dear Readers! It is with great pleasure I am pleased to announce that at this coming 2019 Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend, poet, Tim Conroy will be doing a special presentation as follows. This is will be an event you do not want to miss and will happen after our Saturday Awards Presentation for Books of the Year and the announcing the winner of The Doug Marlette Award and before Author Silent Auction winners announced that's entire proceeds to to The Pat Conroy …
The Pulpwood Queen to be be featured in the book, “OUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES!
Dear Readers, This message just in from Author/Artist/Editor Nicole Seitz of the up-and-coming book, OUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES! Nicole Seitz Our Prince of Scribes contributor number 32 of 67...this phenom began as a licensed cosmetologist and bookstore owner who went on to create the Pulpwood Queens, the biggest "meeting and discussing" book club in the country, and recently earned a degree in visual art. She's the author of The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara-Wearing, …
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The Pulpwood Queen Post Highlights of our Bohemian Rhapsody Girlfriend Weekend 2018!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guy Book Club members, our Authors, and book lovers everywhere! Madeleine Alexandrite Patrick and her momster, Kathy L. Murphy! Favorite photo of the weekend, Author, John Warley as in "Butterflies are Free"! The #1 Highlight of Girlfriend Weekend was after tallying the Author Silent Auction items we raised $2,140.00 with ALL proceeds to go to The Pat Conroy Literary Center. A big shout to Author, John Warley, a personal friend of Pat Conroy for …