NEW! Here is the link to purchase lunches at The Fredonia during Girlfriend Weekend:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pulpwood-queens-2018-bohemian-rhapsody-girlfriend-weekend-tickets-35830252249
2018 GIRLFRIEND WEEKEND
AUTHOR EXTRAVAGANZA
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY!
January 11 – 14, 2018
200 E Main St, Nacogdoches, TX 75961-5212
+1 936-564-7351
THURSDAY AFTERNOON
January 11, 2018
1:00 p.m. – Registration opens for Girlfriend Weekend at the Nacogdoches Visitors Center located in the center of the downtown historic square.
THURSDAY NIGHT
January 11, 2018
The Fredonia Hotel and Convention Center Poolside
4:00 p.m. – Author check-in for their packages and to go over itinerary for the weekend.
7:00 p.m. – “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” Pool Party with musical artist Rickey Pittman!
Featuring Author, Susan Cushman, editor of “A Second Blooming: Becoming the Women We Are Meant to Be” and her authors, Susan Marquez, NancyKay Sullivan Wessman, Julie Perkins Cantrell, and River Jordan.
January 12– 14, 2018
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Day Panels
The Fredonia Hotel and Convention Center
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 before or after they speak and have books already pre-purchased and ready to sign.
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.
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), and to our other literacy promoting endeavors.
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 Fredonia Hotel & Convention Center.
9:00 a.m. – The Fredonia Hotel & Convention Center Grand Ballroom
Masters of Ceremonies for the weekend will be TOBY WILKERSON with our Book Family Staff, HELAINA AMETHYST PATRICK, MADELEINE ALEXANDRITE PATRICK, RUSSELL FORYSTH, and TIAJUANA NEAL, introducing!
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, JAMIE FORD, of “Love and Other Consolation Prizes”.
Come dressed wearing an original PULPWOOD QUEEN TIARA for our TIARA CONTEST!
Wear your own handmade TIARA to win a special prize for BEST BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY THEMED TIARA!
Winner will be announced during our AWARD CEREMONY on Saturday!
Special Points will be added by our judges for wearing Pulpwood Queen attire, our signature Pulpwood Queen Official T-shirts, leopard print fashions bling, and if BOOK RELATED! HOPE YOU WIN!
9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. – Welcome to our BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY themed Girlfriend Weekend Author Extravaganza!
Singing, “We are the champion READERS of the world!”
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. –
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: New York Times Bestselling author, JAMIE FORD of “Love and Other Consolation Prizes”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDORS/BOOK STORE
11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Bren McClain of “One Good Mama Bone”
J.C. Sasser of “Gradle Bird”
Nicole Seitz of “The Cage-Maker”
Shari Stauch of “When Writers Win”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDORS/BOOKSTORE
12:00 p.m. Noon Lunch at the Fredonia Hotel, (pre-purchased lunches), or the many fine eateries of downtown Nacogdoches or within a short driving distance.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
1:30 p.m. – 2:15 a.m.
Tamra Bolton of “When I Was Small”
Mark E. Green with Echo Garrett of “Step Out, Step Up” and February release “Warrior’s Code 001”
Lorna Landvik of “Once in a Blue Moon Lodge”, the sequel to “Patty Jane’s House of Curl”
Romalyn Tilghman of “To the Stars Through Difficulties”
Steve Weigenstein of “The Language of Trees: A Novel of Utopian Dreams”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Loretta Ellsworth of “Stars Over Clear Lake”
Judithe Little of “Wickwythe Hall”
Linda Busby Parker of “Oliver’s Song”
Nicole Waggoner of “The Act: The Circus of Women Trilogy”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOK STORE
3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Kathryn Casey of “In Plain Sight”
Will Clarke of “The Neon Palm of Madame Melancon”
Rickey Pittman of “Cajun ABC” and “Rio Grande Valley ABC”
Clea Simon of “World Enough”
Caitlin Hamilton Summies of “To Lay to Rest Our Ghosts”
Reavis Wortham of “Hawke’s Prey” and May release “Hawke’s War”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOK STORE
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. – Pulpwood Queen Art Fashion Show featuring our Authors and Queens as our models!
5:00 p.m. – Closing remarks by KATHY L. MURPHY
Last chance to purchase books for the day at our VENDOR/BOOKSTORE ROOM.
FRIDAY EVENING
Venue at Mast Hall
317 Main Street, one block from The Fredonia Hotel.
6:00 p.m. – Dinner for Authors who will be waiting tables.
7:00 p.m. – Author Dinner for Attendees and not one minute earlier!
The opening will feature author, Johnathan Scott Barrett of “Cook and Tell: Recipes and Stories of Southern Kitchens” and John Warley of “A Southern Girl: A Novel”.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: New York Times Bestselling Author, M.J. ROSE of “The Library of Light and Shadow” along with New York Times Bestselling Author, RANDY SUSAN MEYERS of “The Widow of Wall Street!
Featuring ALL our Authors dressed in “Bohemian style” all while waiting on your
tables with catering by Joseph’s Riverport BBQ in Jefferson, Texas, Top Five of Texas Monthly Magazine and featured as Top BBQ of National Geographic!
B.Y.O.B.
January 14, 2017
SATURDAY MORNING
The Fredonia Hotel Grand Ballroom
8:00 a.m. – REGISTRATION
8:45 a.m. – Master of Ceremonies, TOBY WILKERSON will bring back KATHY L. MURPHY and JAMIE FORD, as your hosts!
9:00 a.m. – CAROLYN TURGEON, Editor of Faerie Magazine and of “The Faerie Handbook: An Enchanting Compendium of Literature, Lore, Art, Recipes, and Projects” introducing…
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, ALICE HOFFMAN of “The Rules of Magic”, prequel to “Practical Magic”
9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. –
Keynote Speaker: LISA WINGATE, of “Before We Were Yours”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Naren Aryal of “How to Sell a Crapload of Books”
Laurel Davis Huber of “The Velveteen Daughter”
Kacey Kowars of “A Celebration of Words: Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke, Andre DuBus and Son” and “A Celebration of Words: Jeannette Walls
Vol. II
Christine Butterworth McDermott of “Woods & Water, Wolves & Women”, editor of Gingerbread House Literary Magazine
Man Martin of “The Lemon Jell-O Syndrome”
John Warley of “A Southern Girl: A Novel”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Katherine “Kiffer” Brown of Chanticleer Book Reviews
Sara Knoll Dahmen of “Smith: A Novel”
Jennifer Mueller of “Return of the Wolf”
James Conroyd Martin of “The Boy Who Wanted Wings”
Gregory Erich Phillip of “Love of Finished Years”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOK STORE
12:15 p.m. – (Lunch at the Fredonia Hotel, (pre-paid luncheons only or fine eateries of Nacogdoches).
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. –
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DAREN WANG, former Executive Director of the Decatur Book Festival and Author of “The Hidden Light of Northern Fires”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
2:15 P.M. – 2:45 P.M.
Stephanie Chance of “Beautiful Seductions, From Italy to Decorate Ornate”
Susan Cushman of “Cherry Bomb”
Patricia V. Davis of “Cooking for Ghosts”
Jennifer Haupt of “In The Shadow of 10,000 Hills: A Novel”
Alyson Richman of “The Garden of Letters”
Deborah Rodriguez of “The Little Coffee Shop in Kabul”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
3:00 P.M. – 3:30 P.M. – Closing Speaker Panel:
Christa Allan of “Because You Loved Me”
Julie Perkins Cantrell of “Perennials”
Celeste Fletcher McHale of “The Sweet Smell of Magnolias and Memories”
Shellie Rushing Tomlinson of “Devotions for the Hungry Heart
Susan Schild of “Linny’s Sweet Dream List’, “Sweet Carolina Morning”, and “Sweet Southern Hearts”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
4:00 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.
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, as you pick up your winning bid item!
Final remarks from KATHY L. MURPHY and JAMIE FORD 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 5:30 P.M.
Shop the streets of Nacogdoches, 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 Fredonia Hotel Grand Ballroom 8:00 P.M.
GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR “BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY” 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 bohemian, your favorite author, or book character and compete for BEST THEMED GIRL GROUP, BEST THEMED SKIT CONTEST, TIMBER GUY SEXY READING CONTEST and BEST PULPWOOD QUEEN THEMED COSTUME FOR MS. “GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR” BALL QUEEN!
MADELEINE, TOBY, and RUSS will be back by popular demand to D.J for the best dance music EVER!
GET YOUR BOHO ON!
Have your cameras ready!
FULL CASH BAR WILL BE ON SITE THIS YEAR!
SUNDAY, January 15, 2018
Join me in your “Sunday Crown”, (your favorite hat), at The First United Methodist Church for worship, times T.B.A.
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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!
SIGN UP for Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend 2019 during our 2018 Girlfriend Weekend and the ENTIRE PACKAGE is $300 online at www.thepulpwoodqueens.com until Midnight Saturday, then the package goes up to $350 and then higher throughout the year.
Don’t miss this opportunity but DO NOTE:
Memberships, tickets, and packages are NON-REFUNDABLE, FINAL SALE!
