The Pulpwood Queen UPDATED Press Release for 2019 Girlfriend Weekend Program!
One month exactly to our 19th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend! The program is done, the 2019 Pulpwood Queen Book Club Reading Selections are done featuring all the authors who are coming to our weekend below, and the WINNERS of our Pulpwood Queen Books of the Year have been notified! So excited to make those announcements during our awards ceremony at Girlfriend Weekend.
So have you been naughty by not signing up or nice? We are checking our list twice and it’s not too late! Go to www.thepulpwoodqueens.com and Click Membership first for discount, then Click Girlfriend Weekend and scroll al the way down to see all options for tickets and packages at TOP MENU BAR!
But please sign up before Christmas as we are making up our Pulpwood Queen Registration Swag bags and after NEW YEARS, we just won’t have time to do it. Signing up in December will get you some amazing FREE books including Kaya McLaren’s “The Road to Enchantment” and for all those dragging your feet, a copy of the latest edition of my book “The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life” by Kathy L. Murphy with NEW original art cover by me and New forward! This is the first book you are to READ when you JOIN our book club so if you haven’t read it you can purchase it from www.amazon.com! December only for these free books and seats are limited so don’t miss this deal!
Besides, this you have lots of surprises in store for you in your swag bags! Historic Jefferson, Texas is really supporting us coming back to their fair city! More free books and of course, we are the ONLY book club convention, that I know of, that lets you get to hear every single author that is coming! This year is going to be EPIC! Program below.
Here is some inspiration from my closet on the many looks of my vision of HOW THE WEST WAS WON with the big reveal of my “Great Big Ball of Hair” Ball outfit to be seen ONLY at the event. It’s truly me having fun playing dress-up honoring our history and people of our country!
And be sure to honor all the authors that are our reads by attending, your attendance is in support of all of them. Purchase, read, and review all these authors books as partners, it ain’t always easy to get to our event from where they live and most of them take time off their busy schedules and pay their own way to this big Pulpwood Queen Reading Round-up!
Also, our bookseller, Murder by the Book travels hours to pack up and haul all the amazing author’s books. Support this incredible bookstore by purchasing the books of our authors because, this is what keeps the book club convention going and keeps this bookstore running in the black, not red! I do not know what I would do without Murder by the Book!
Right now Tiajuana and I have been running our tails off attending Pulpwood Queen Book Club Christmas parties all while trying to get ready for our own family Christmas’s and Tiajuana’s family is off on a Christmas Cruise. We are juggling a lot but it’s fun, truly we love it, but it does get stressful at this time.
After Christmas, I will be spending much needed time with my family and back rereading books before Girlfriend Weekend. You will NOT have an easy time reaching me as I need to rest and recuperate to get ready for our big ta do. Have a glorious holiday, renew your memberships, make your New Year’s Resolution one of which reading is on your top priority and here we go!
Email me now if you have any questions attendees, authors because I too travel in for this event and will be setting up my camper just across the street from convention center to begin set up on Wednesday before event. Safe travels, Happy Holidays and don’t forget two that Breathless Wines is offering Pulpwood Queen discounts for their wine and our Pulpwood Queen Book Club and wine pairings, they make fantabulous gifts my friends!
Your Breathless Bubbles & Books Gift Box is delivered to your home by special GSO courier straight from the Breathless Wines elegant wine tasting room. It’s carefully packed and shipped in protective cardboard. The gift box is a posh, chocolate brown that when opened, reveals an award-winning bottle of Brut champagne and the book of your choice, festively nestled in gold and straw ribbon. All this for about 60 dollars, including shipping! (USA only–certain states only) Here are some that we, at The Secret Spice Cafe, purchased for holiday gifts.
And order my www.shopvida.com/collections/fashions to wear at our Pulpwood Queen Art Inspired Fashions at our Fashion Show during Girlfriend Weekend and your name will be entered into a drawing for a FREE 20th Anniversary Package to Girlfriend Weekend 2020!
Attention 2019 Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, our Authors, Attendees and those who are thinking about coming to our 19th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend!
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
December 17, 2018 – Jefferson, Texas – We are proud to announce that this up-and-coming book club convention will now be held back home at the Jefferson Tourism & Transportation Convention Center in historic Jefferson, Texas, January 17 – 19, 2019 where our Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs. We have gone back to our roots where everything began with my former Beauty and the Book and the founding of my Pulpwood Queens of East Texas Book Club in 2000.
Membership, tickets, and packages are available for purchase on our Official website,www.thepulpwoodqueens.com and as space is limited, book yours TODAY.
Go to https://visitjeffersontexas.com/places-to-stay for the full listing of all the wonderful accommodations to stay during your visit to historic Jefferson, Texas and many are walking distance from the convention center. For all the attractions and more go to www.visitjeffersontexas.com and the City of Jefferson now even has an awesome app at www.visitjeffersontexas.com where you can find and book reservations for your rooms and restaurants while visiting.
For more information on the event contact:
Kathy L. Murphy
Founder of the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Reading Nation
Official and only Email: thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com (Press passes are available for any media doing a feature and to request a phone number for media interviews. )
Official and ONLY website: www.thepulpwoodqueens.com
The working program is about to go up online on the website but in the meantime here is the basic itinerary of events:
2019 GIRLFRIEND WEEKEND
AUTHOR EXTRAVAGANZA
HOW THE WEST WAS WON!
January 17 – 19, 2019
The Jefferson Visitors & Convention 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 tracks toward the train ride to pick up your Pulpwood Queen pre-paid packets and to purchase individual tickets for events if any are still left.
THURSDAY NIGHT
January 17, 2018
6:30 p.m. Author check in for their name tags, pick up packets, and to go over itinerary for the weekend.
7:00 p.m. Entertainment by Author/Musical Artist, Rickey Pittman
All authors will be introduced!
“Southern Writers on Writing”
Featuring Editor Susan Cushman, and her authors, Nicole Seitz, River Jordan, Suzanne Hudson, Michael Farris Smith, Patti Callahan Henry, Niles Reddick, Julie Perkins Cantrell, Joe Formichella, Brenda McClain, and Cassandra King Conroy.
January 18– 19, 2017
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Day Panels
All day Author Panels featuring each hour, authors who are interviewed followed by autograph time. All authors featured after their panel will immediately go to AUTHOR AUTOGRAPH TABLE at the VENDOR/BOOKSTORE table. To ensure you get your books signed, go immediately to the AUTHOR AUTOGRAPH TABLES after they speak, pre-purchased books only and be ready to have your book/books signed.
MURDER BY THE BOOK of Houston, Texas will provide the BOOKSTORE for all the author books for the event. Authors also will be available to sign books throughout the weekend but do note some will only be able to sign after their panel, which will be announced.
Also, we will have VENDORS, (open 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.), Friday and Saturday that will feature the BEST of the BEST SHOWCASED for our book-loving attendees.
AN AUTHOR SILENT AUCTION will be held with showcased items signed and donated by all our authors. All proceeds from the SILENT AUCTION will go to THE PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTER, (The Pulpwood Queens Book Club endorses this literacy project as our charity of choice). All authors featured donate a signed object that ties in with their book for this literary promoting fundraiser. Be PRESENT and PREPARED to pay for the item you bid on for the Silent Auction by cash or check payable to Beauty and the Book Saturday afternoon.
FRIDAY MORNING
8:00 a.m. REGISTRATION at Convention Center
9:00 a.m.
KATHY L. MURPHY, founder of The Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs, Author of “The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life” her co-host, New York Times Bestselling Author, REAVIS WORTHAM, of “Hawke’s Prey” ,“Hawke’s War”, and “Gold Dust”.
Come dressed wearing an original decorated with our theme HOW THE WEST WAS WON Cowboy hat with Tiara for our TIARA CONTEST! Winner will be announced during our AWARD CEREMONY on Saturday! Special Points will be added by our judges for wearing Pulpwood Queen western attire, our signature Pulpwood Queen Official T-shirts, leopard print fashions bling, and if BOOK RELATED! HOPE YOU WIN!
9:00 a.m. – 9:05 a.m. Welcome to our HOW THE WEST WAS WON themed Girlfriend Weekend Author Extravaganza!
9:05 a.m. – 9:25 a.m. KEYNOTE SPEAKER, New York Times Bestselling author, REAVIS WORTHAM of “Hawke’s Prey”, “Hawke’s War” and “Gold Dust”
9:25 a.m. – 9:45 a.m KEYNOTE SPEAKER New York Times Bestselling Author, PAULA MCLAIN of “Love and Ruin” and “The Paris Wife”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDORS/BOOKSTORE
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Tim Bryant of “A World of Hurt” and “Dead and Buried”
Fletcher Celeste of “My Better Angels”
Beth M. Howard of “Hausfraus Honeymoon: Love, Language, and other Misadventures in Germany”
Kathryn Taylor of “Two Minus One: A Memoir”
11:00 a.m.- 11:45 a.m.
“Steal Away Home: A Novel” by Billy Coffey
“The Fighter” by Michael Smith Farris
“Shoe Burnin’ Season: A Womanifesto by R.P. Saffire a.k.a Suzanne Hudson
“The Jossling Affair” and “Mist-Cha-Mas: A Novel of Captivity” by J.L. Oakley
“Red Mountain: A Novel“ and “Red Mountain Rising: A Novel by Boo Walker
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDORS/BOOKSTORE
12:00 p.m. Noon Lunch at the many fine eateries of downtown Jefferson, Texas or within a short driving distance.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
1:30 p.m. – 2:15 a.m.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER, ANN WEISGARBER of “The Glovemaker: A Novel”, “The Promise: A Novel” and soon to film, “The Personal History of Rachel DePree: A Novel”.
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Cameron Powell of “Ordinary Magic: Promises I Kept To My Mother Through Life, Illness, and A Very Long Walk On The Camino de Santiago”
James E. Cherry of “Edge of the Wind”
Joe Formichella of “Waffle House Rules”
Niles Reddick of “Road Kill Art and Other Oddities” and “Reading the Coffee Grounds and Other Stories”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Missy Buchanan of “Beach Calling: A Devotional Journal for the Middle Years and Beyond”
Joy Ross Davis of “Countenance”
Connor Garrett of “Life in Lyrics”
Echo Garrett and Mark. E. Green of “A Warrior’s Code 001: 7 Vital Steps to Resiliency”
John Warley of “Stand Forever, Yielding Never: The Citadel in the 21st Century”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Pulpwood Queen Art Fashion Show featuring our Authors and Queens as our models! You can order now to wear at our event any of The Pulpwood Queen art inspired fashions at www.ShopVida.com/collections/thepulpwoodqueen . Email me atthepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com to tell me what you will be wearing and you will be entered into the fashion show wearing your Pulpwood Queen STYLE! I also will be doing a drawing for a FREE PACKAGE to our 20th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend to all who participate in the Pulpwood Queen Style and Fashion Show! Hope you WIN!
5:00 p.m. Closing remarks by KATHY L. MURPHY and REAVIS WORTHAM
Last chance to purchase books and visit our vendors for the day at our VENDOR/BOOKSTORE ROOM.
FRIDAY EVENING
The Jefferson Tourism & Transportation Convention Center
6:30 p.m. FOR AUTHORS ONLY DINNER for they will be the Authors who will be waiting tables. Authors come dressed as your favorite Country & Western Musical Artist or ICON!
8:00 p.m. Author Dinner for Attendees and door opens not one minute earlier!
Opening will be the author, John Warley of “Stand Forever, Yielding Never: The Citadel in the 21st Century”
“Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy”
Featuring Editors Nicole Seitz and Jonathan Haupt as moderators for the panel of contributing authors including Cassandra King Conroy, John Warley, Patti Callahan Henry, Kathy L. Murphy, Tim Conroy, Brenda McClain, and Teresa Miller.
Featuring too ALL our Authors dressed in “How The West Was Won” themed style of Country and Western Musical Artists all waiting your tables with catering by Joseph’s Riverport BBQ, the Official caterer of The Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs.
January 19, 2019
SATURDAY MORNING
The Jefferson Tourism & Transportation Convention Center
8:00 a.m. REGISTRATION
8:45 a.m. KATHY L. MURPHY and REAVIS WORTHAM, are back as your hosts!
9:00 a.m. KEYNOTE SPEAKER BLOOM! Tall Poppy Reader and Founder, ANN WERTZ GARVIN of “I Like You Just Fine When You’re Not Around”.
9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Johnnie Bernhard of “How We Came To Be”
Peter Golden of “Nothing is Forgotten: A Novel”
Kacey Kowars of “A Celebration of Words: Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke, Andre DuBus and Son, and Jeannette Walls”, Introduction by Kathy L. Murphy
Vol. II”
Marjorie Herrera Lewis of “When the Men Were Gone: A Novel”
Gregory Phillips of “The Exile: A Novel”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Michelle Cox of “A Promise Given: A Henrietta and Inspector Howell Novel”
Sara Knoll Dahmen of “Smith: A Novel”
Claire Fullerton of “Mourning Dove”’
Paula McLain of “Love & Ruin”
Jennifer Mueller of “The Secrets of the Coromandel House”
Colleen Oakley of “Close Enough to Touch: A Novel”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
12:15 p.m. Dine at the fine eateries and bistros of Jefferson, Texas.
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: LISA WINGATE of the one million dollar hardback bestseller “Before We Were Yours”, Pulpwood Queen Bonus Book of the Year 2018
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
2:15 P.M. – 2:30 P.M. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: RIVER JORDAN OF “Confessions of a Christian Mystic”
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Ann Wertz Garvin of Bloom: Tall Poppy Readers/Moderator
Julie Perkins Cantrell of “Perennials”
Patti Callahan Henry of “Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis”
Jess Montgomery of “The Widows: A Novel”
Charles Clifford Brooks III of “The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics: Poems”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR BOOKSTORE
3:15 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Closing Speaker Panel: Breathless Bubbles and Books
Stephanie Chance of “Beautiful Seductions, From Italy to Decorate Ornate”
Patricia V. Davis of “Spells and Oregano: Book Two of The Secret Spice Cafe”
Camille Di Maio of “The Way of Beauty and “The Beautiful Strangers”
Laurel Davis Huber of “The Velveteen Daughter”
Judithe Little of “Wickwythe Hall: A Novel”
Kathy L. Murphy of “The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life”
Rebecca Rosenberg of “The Secret Life of Mrs. London: A Novel”
Barbara Claypool White of “The Promise Between Us”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE AND LAST BOOK SIGNING OF THE DAY!
4:30 P.M.
Awards Presentation for the following:
Pulpwood Queen Bonus Book of the Year
Pulpwood Queen Book of the Year – Fiction & Non-Fiction
KATHY L. MURPHY to present The KAT Award and the announcement of TIARA AWARD!
Special Presentation: THE DOUG MARLETTE AWARD presented to an individual for the Lifetime Achievement of Promoting Literacy.
4: 45 p.m. Keynote Speaker, Tim Conroy’s presentation PAT CONROY”S GREAT LOVE OF POETRY.
Silent Auction winners announced. Each author will be present to present each winner of the highest bid his or her signed personal item. Be prepared to pick up and pay at this time with cash or check, payable to Beauty and the Book as you pick up your winning bid item!
Final remarks from KATHY L. MURPHY, REAVIS WORTHAM as we announce the theme for our for next year’s event and conclude our weekend’s presentation of AUTHORS!
VENDOR/BOOKSTORE ROOM Closes at 6;00 p.m.
Shop the streets of Jefferson, dine in their fantabulous eateries, and prepare for an evening of magic! We are all going to the “GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR” BALL!
SATURDAY EVENING: The Jefferson Tourism & Transportation Convention Center
8:00 P.M.GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR “HOW THE WEST WAS WON” themed BALL! Each costumed Attendee and Authors will be formally introduced this year as they enter for our “GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR” BALL! Come dressed as your favorite HOW THE WEST WAS WON character, your favorite author or book character and compete for BEST THEMED GIRL GROUP, BEST THEMED SKIT CONTEST, TIMBER GUY and BEST PULPWOOD QUEEN THEMED COSTUME CONTES FOR HOMECOMING “GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR” BALL QUEEN AND KING!
D.J for the best dance music EVER and B.Y.O.B!
GET YOUR BOOK to BOOT SCOOTING BOOTIE ON!
Have your cameras ready!
All information in the program could be subject to change due to circumstances beyond our control.
All memberships, tickets, and packages are NON- REFUNDABLE.
Our Official hashtag is #PQGirlfriendWeekend for social media posts.
For our Official website: www.thepulpwoodqueens.com!
DO NOTE: Memberships, tickets, and packages are NON-REFUNDABLE AND FINAL
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