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 twenty years as the world's largest meeting-and-discussing bookclub, with over 750 local clubs internationally. The fact that many of these women also wear tiaras, leopard prints, and bright pink to Continue Reading
20th Anniversary Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend Book Club Convention Working Program!
ATTENTION PULPWOOD QUEENS and TIMBER GUY BOOK CLUB MEMBERS, our AUTHORS, ATTENDEES, and BOOK LOVERS EVERYWHERE! Here is the working copy of our 20th ANNIVERSARY GIRLFRIEND WEEKEND AUTHOR EXTRAVAGANZA! Note this is working copy as still have authors who have been invited and not confirmed with a few surprises. Email me if you see any errors at thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com. Truly, Tiara Wearing and Book Sharing Kathy L. Murphy The Pulpwood Queen 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 Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen New Calendar of Events Summer 2019!
Attention Art Lovers and Blooming Artists! I will be featured on stage at Made in the Shades Artisan Show the second Saturday of June, the 8th. Bringing my Alcohol Ink Paintings, book, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" and art inspired fashions. 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. sign up for a Beginning Alcohol Ink Workshop where you can learn without any previous artist experience the wonders of this fascinating, vibrant and colorful medium. $50 for the class and includes all materials and you get to take your art home with you. This will be outside, so dress appropriately and wear paint clothes. Here are some photos from a recent class and some of my paintings that Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Guest Blogger, Carol Megathlin!
Pulpwood Queens and Death Wishes Inbox x Carol Megathlin <cmega@bellsouth.net> 1:39 AM (4 hours ago) to Bill Favorite people, “I can’t get you both in the shot,” Steph said. I was posing with Winston Groome, author of Forrest Gump, but alas, who knew he was so tall? As you will see in the attached picture, the top of my head leveled off three inches below his shoulder. Winston lowered his head a bit and Favorite Stephanie got the picture. This wasn’t the first time I had heard Mr. Groome speak but it was the Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend TIAJUANA ANDERSON NEEL Scholarship!
Attention regarding Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend Scholarship Donations in the name of Tiajuana Anderson Neel, the late great Executive Director of The Pulpwood Queen Book Club Reading Nation and my dearest friend: This has been a recent traumatic loss to us and her family and friends with the tragic and untimely death of Tiajuana Anderson Neel. I have spent the last few days working hard to not drown in sorrow as Tiajuana would not have wanted that at all. So I have thrown myself with even more gusto into a TRIBUTE FOR TIAJUANA that will be held at our annual Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend! To contribute to the Tiajuana Anderson Neel Scholarship, you can write a check to Kathy Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Announces Calendar of Spring Into Summer Events!
Attention Art lovers, Pulpwood Queens, Authors, and my friends on Social Media. Here are my up and coming events of The Pulpwood Queen. Come welcome Kathy L. Murphy, The Pulpwood Queen to Fairhope, Alabama! Wednesday, May 15th Arrive for Joe’s homemade pizza and stay the night at WHBThursday, May 16th 10:00 am WBAF/downtown Fairhope After radio interview Meet with Maggie at the condo accommodations ☺ Page & Palette's Book Cellar Thursday, May 16th 6:00-8:00 pm With live music by Blue Bicycle Friday, May 17th 8:00 am Be at WKRG TV station in Mobile for the “Mark Your Calendar” segment at 8:30 Friday, May 17th 12 noon Thyme on Section Continue Reading
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 Conroy's pants had become famous when his daughter, artist, children's author and illustrator Melissa Conroy wrote a children's book about her father's pants and the grandfather to her children, "Poppy's Continue Reading
Breaking News! The Pulpwood Queen Announces Official 2019 Book Club Selections and More!
Contact: Kathy L. Murphy at email: thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 22, 2019 The Pulpwood Queens of East Texas Charter chapter Jefferson, Texas - The Pulpwood Queens are pleased to announce the following will be our Official Pulpwood Queen Book Club Selections for 2019. Our motto is "where Tiaras are mandatory and reading our good books is the ONLY RULE!" So you are to read the Book of the Month for the month and after that the Bonus Books of the month. If you are a NEW chapter you begin with my book, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" and I will be happy to call into your very first Pulpwood Queen Book Club Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen FINAL Press Release for 2019 Girlfriend Weekend Program!
CONTACT: Kathy L. Murphy Founder of the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club 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. ) PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 29, 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 & Convention Center in historic Jefferson, Texas, January 17 – 19, 2019 where our Go to https://visitjeffersontexas.com/places-to-stay for the full listing of all the wonderful accommodations Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen’s #1 New Year’s Resolution is to OWN IT!
Dear Readers, I have come to believe that I do not fit into anything of societies mores what it means to be a woman of age in this world. I feel as if I have become in a way, a lone wolf, invisible. I am not politically correct as I grew up straddled the line of having a mother who was a stay at home mom and even had my high school counselor asked me if I was going to get married out of high school? I did not want to conform, to be like my mother. I wanted the freedom to find my own path. No way did I want to get married. I was only 17 and did not have the best example of a good marriage to go by with my parents. They had this weird love/hate relationship, one in fact that I Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Heads Book Club Members Up, Moves Them out, RAWHIDE to East Texas!
The Pulpwood Queen UPDATED Press Release for 2019 Girlfriend Weekend Program! Dear Readers! 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 Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Sharing her LOVE for All Things Jason Momoa!
Dear Readers, Okay, okay, if anybody has been around me the past month or so they know I have become a big Jason Momoa fan. But not for the obvious reasons, yes, he is so easy on the eyes, it is truly for the full package. I happened to have discovered him as an actor in the Netflix series "Frontier", in preparing for my costumes for my themed HOW THE WEST WAS WON annual Pulpwood Queen Book Club Convention which we call Girlfriend Weekend to be held January 17 - 19, 2019 in historic Jefferson, Texas. You see I run the largest "meeting and discussing" book club in the world, 765 chapters nationwide and in 15 foreign countries and this is our annual book club convention. I had been Continue Reading
2019 Official Program for Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend Book Club Convention!
The Pulpwood Queen UPDATED Press Release for 2019 Girlfriend Weekend Program! Be the first to donate! Show your passion for Pat Conroy Literary Center Inc by making the first donation. Any amount can help motivate your friends to support the cause. Donate 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 12, 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 & Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen is Doing Multiple Literary Events starting TODAY!
Dear Readers, Heading out today, November 15th for a Ladies Night Out at Walker's Mills Winery starting at 4:00 p.m. I am one of vendors invited in to share my art, book, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life", and art inspired fashions for the evening. "Dreaming of Italy" by Kathy L. Murphy, Acrylic and Alcohol Ink on Museum Gesso Board, 18" by 24" My art and book above and art inspired fashions below: Photo with Tiajuana Anderson Neel, the Executive Director of The Pulpwood Queens who will be at the event with me. Friday, November 16, I will be in Jefferson, Texas as my charter chapter, The Pulpwood Queens of East Texas helps Tiajuana and I Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queens Talks About Newly Discovered Author/Poet Clifford Brooks and On The Road Again!
Dear Readers, Posting this blog tonight as tomorrow I am packing up and on the road to Decorate Ornate in Gladewater, Texas for Stephanie Chance's Christmas Open House. I will be there as a featured artist as Stephanie has created an art gallery space for me in her shop of European Treasures. I have never been so fortunate. The event starts at 5:00 p.m. Santa Claus will be there too and I so look forward to getting into the holiday spirit with Stephanie Chance! She's on Facebook under Stephanie Chance and Decorate Ornate so see you there with my Pulpwood Queen Executive Director, Tiajuana Anderson Neel traveling in from Longview, Texas! Truly, Tiara Wearing and Book Continue Reading