Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! How to Make a Life When matriarch Ida escapes a pogrom in Ukraine with her daughter Bessie in order to save her family, she cannot foresee the struggles of her children and grandchildren. Through war, mental illness, secrets and betrayal, each generation’s actions impact the lives of the next. As family members grapple with their differences, they learn that loyalty to their family anchors them in the world and helps them to make a life. by Author …
February 2021 – Author of the Month
Most 10-year-old boys spend afternoons riding bikes and playing sports. Me? I sat on the couch snuggled close to my grandmother and watched "The Young and the Restless," a popular TV soap opera. I was obsessed with the fictional Abbott family's cosmetic business and vowed that I would one day own my own company. I even picked a name, VS Vincenzo, my name and initials in Italian, which remains one of my product lines today. Then along came that over-the-top night-time saga, "Dynasty," and the …
February 2021 Bonus Books
BONUS BOOKS OF THE MONTH Think Like a Monk Jay Shetty, social media superstar and host of the #1 podcast On Purpose, distills the timeless wisdom he learned as a monk into practical steps anyone can take every day to live a less anxious, more meaningful life. When you think like a monk, you’ll understand: -How to overcome negativity -How to stop overthinking -Why comparison kills love -How to use your fear -Why you can’t find happiness by looking for it -How to learn from everyone …
New Pulpwood Authors – January 2021
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! House of Rose When rookie patrol officer Rose Brighton chases a suspect down an alley, she finds herself in the middle of every cop’s nightmare—staring down at a dead body with two bullet holes from her gun . . . in his back. He’s dead and now she has to explain it, which is going to be a problem because what happened was so strange, she doesn’t understand it herself. Rose must unravel the mystery of what happened and who she really is—a witch of the …
January 2021 – Authors of the Month
Connor Judson Garrett is an award-winning poet, novelist, travel writer, copywriter, and Cofounder of Lucid House Publishing, a writer-centric bespoke book publisher. He is currently working on a sequel and a subsequent finale for what will be the trilogy that began with "Spellbound Under The Spanish Moss: A Southern Tale of Magic." Garrett dreams of and is blazing his way towards a career writing in a multitude of genres ranging from fantasy to science fiction, as well as, works in a …
January 2021 Bonus Books
BONUS BOOKS OF THE MONTH King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema Here is the astonishing true story of Bollywood, a sweeping portrait about a country finding its identity, a movie industry that changed the face of India, and one man's struggle to become a star. Shah Rukh Khan's larger than life tale takes us through the colorful and idiosyncratic Bollywood movie industry, where fantastic dreams and outrageous obsessions share the spotlight with extortion, …
10 Books to Inspire You to Write Your Own
Starting the year off with a healthy reading list is always a wise thought, as all bibliophiles would agree. The right books can really make a difference to your mood, and perhaps even inspire you to embark on unexpected authorial journeys of your own. If you’ve got a book idea brewing somewhere in the back of your mind and you’re waiting for a reason to get cracking, I’ve got 10 books that might just be the kickstart you need. Among them are craft books, writing exercises, and memoirs; so …
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2021 International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Virtual Online Zoomathon
2021 International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Virtual Online Zoomathon Book Club Convention that we call our Girlfriend Weekend Slumber Party! (all attending are encouraged to where their pajamas including all our authors, presenters, bloggers, Keynotes, and special guests) January 14 - 17, 2021 Welcome to our first ever online virtual book club convention. Members only for this Early Bird Special so renew or join our book club as either a member, International Book Club Member, Author …
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Author of the Month – December 2020
Author Stephanie Chance Stephanie Chance is the owner & creator of Decorate Ornate, a one-of-a-kind store that’s filled from floor to ceiling with fabulous home decor from all over Europe. And, the owner and creator of Decorate Ornate Italy Tours, wherein she takes two groups of Americans to Italy and beyond twice a year. Click Here to Visit Her Website Mamma Mia! Sinners, Saints & Escapades Hop aboard with bestselling author Stephanie Chance and her …
December 2020 Bonus Books
BONUS BOOKS OF THE MONTH City of Peace When Methodist minister Harley Camden loses his wife and daughter in a European terrorist attack, he spirals downward into grief and anger. The bishop forces him to move to a tiny church in small-town Occoquan, Virginia, to heal and recover. But all hope for serenity is quickly shattered by the mysterious murder of the daughter of the local Iraqi baker, followed by the threat of an attack by Islamic extremists. Harley tries to build bridges to his …
New Pulpwood Authors – December 2020
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Glimmer As You Can Welcome to the Starlite. Let your true self shine. 1962. In the middle of Brooklyn Heights sits the Starlite: boutique dress shop by day, underground women's club by night. Started by the shop's proprietor after her marriage crumbled, Madeline's social club soon becomes a safe haven for women from all walks of life looking for a respite from their troubled relationships and professional frustrations. These after-hour soirées soon bring …
New Pulpwood Authors – November 2020
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Crescent City Moon and Crescent City Sin Things put underground in New Orleans don’t often stay there. Even things that should - like bodies, and secrets. How do you fight an enemy you can’t see that can kill on a whim? In 1820s New Orleans, on the eve of her twenty-first birthday, Zéolie Cheval discovers the mangled body of her father murdered in his bed and a maniacal voice haunting the recesses of her mind. When the priest sent to comfort her is killed …
Author of the Month – November 2020
Author Judithe Little Judithe is the author of two novels, The Chanel Sisters, to be released December 29, 2020, and Wickwythe Hall, award-winning historical fiction set during World War II. She grew up in Virginia and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. After studying at the Institute of European Studies and the Institut Catholique in Paris, France, and interning at the U.S. Department of State, she earned a law degree from the University of …
November 2020 Bonus Books
BONUS BOOKS OF THE MONTH Angel Thieves An ocelot. A slave. An angel thief. Multiple perspectives spanning across time are united through themes of freedom, hope, and faith in a most unusual and epic novel from Newbery Honor–winning author and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt. Sixteen-year-old Cade Curtis is an angel thief. After his mother’s family rejected him for being born out of wedlock, he and his dad moved to the apartment above a local antique shop. The only …
New Pulpwood Authors – October 2020
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! The Price of Safety By 2047, no crime in America goes unsolved. No wrongdoing goes unseen. When Dray Quintero learns his nineteen-year-old daughter Raven committed a heinous act, he covers it up to save her life. This pits him against the police he’s respected since he was a child and places him in the crosshairs of Kieran, a ruthless federal Agent. To survive, Dray must overcome the surveillance system he helped build and the technology implanted in …
Author of the Month – October 2020
Author Grady Hendrix New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix has written about the confederate flag for Playboy magazine, covered machine gun collector conventions, and scripted award shows for Chinese television. His novels include HORRORSTÖR about a haunted IKEA, MY BEST FRIEND'S EXORCISM, which is basically "Beaches" meets "The Exorcist", WE SOLD OUR SOULS, a heavy metal horror epic, and THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB'S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES. He's also the author of PAPERBACKS FROM HELL, …
October 2020 Bonus Books
Trouble the Water Deeply moving and illuminating, Trouble the Water reveals the little-known real-life story of Robert Smalls. Born enslaved before the Civil War, Smalls witnesses great privilege and immense suffering alongside his owner's daughter and the dangerous son of a firebrand secessionist. When he's only twelve, he's put to work in Charleston, where he loads ships and learns to pilot a cotton steamer. When the war erupts and his cotton steamer becomes a confederate warship, Robert …
5 Things Every Author Should Know About Amazon
It’s hard to deny that Amazon is coming ever closer to achieving omnipresence in the publishing industry. Amazon and Kindle can sell books to readers all over the world. And if you’re an indie author, you may also know that Amazon self-publishing is an increasingly popular route for many writers. Given its far reach and accessibility, Amazon is a factor in your publishing equation that shouldn’t be taken lightly. In fact, there are a number of specific features that come with Amazon …
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Author of the Month – September 2020
Author Leila Meacham Leila Meacham is a writer and former teacher who lives in San Antonio, Texas. She is the author of the bestselling novels Roses, Somerset and Tumbleweeds. Dragonfly At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds - a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother …
September 2020 Bonus Books
House of Rose Rookie patrol officer Rose Brighton chases a suspect down an alley. Without warning, her vision wavers, and the lone suspect appears to divide into two men--the real suspect, frozen in time, and a shadow version with a gun. Confused by what she's just seen, but with no time to second guess it's meaning, Rose shoots the real suspect in the back. Forced to lie to detectives, she risks her job and her life to discover the shocking truth of who she really is--a witch of an …
New Pulpwood Authors – September 2020
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Solo in Salento SOLO IN SALENTO BEGINS WITH A LIE. Desperate to break out of a life haunted by a wretched past, a loss of faith, toxic relationships, a stressful management career, and a slow sink into domestication, Donna craves time away from everything and everyone, including her loving husband. So she lies, telling everyone she is traveling alone to research a novel she intends to write. While in Otranto, Donna masters the complex recycling system of a …
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Author of the Month – August 2020
Author Claire Fullerton Claire Fullerton hails from Memphis, TN. and now lives in Malibu, CA. with her husband and 3 German shepherds. She is the author of Little Tea, the August selection of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club. Claire is the author of 5-time award winning, Mourning Dove; Dancing to an Irish Reel; and A Portal in Time. Her novella, Through an Autumn Window, is included in the book, A Southern Season. Her work has appeared in Celtic Life International, Southern Writers Magazine, The …
New Pulpwood Authors – August 2020
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! I"ll Go: War, Religion, and Coming Home from Cairo to Kansas City When the Twin Towers fell, Alexs Thompson didn’t rejoin the military, he quit his classes at the University of Chicago and backpacked through Yemen and Egypt to live with Muslim fundamentalists. Eventually, he fought alongside US Special forces and Marines in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout Eastern Africa. Motivated by an unwavering commitment to live the best life possible, this is his …
August 2020 Bonus Books
Clover Blue and This I Know Set against the backdrop of a 1970s commune in Northern California, Clover Blue is a compelling, beautifully written story of a young boy’s search for identity. There are many things twelve-year-old Clover Blue isn’t sure of: his exact date of birth, his name before he was adopted into the Saffron Freedom Community, or who his first parents were. What he does know with certainty is that among this close-knit, nature-loving group, he is happy. Here, everyone is …
Meeting the Pulpwood Queen By Jax Frey
Two weird things happened in Fairhope, Alabama on August 9, 2019. One of them would change my life. The other, well, not so much—as you will see. A little background first. I wasn’t even supposed to be hanging around the Page & Palette bookstore in Fairhope that day. It’s a quirky shop that has been around for over forty years, and it not only sells books, it is also a café, an art supply store, a live music venue, and most importantly, a wine bar. I was in town to deliver my art to a …
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New Pulpwood Authors – July 2020
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! The Mermaid Mahjong Circle -- A Fairy Tale for Women A fairy tale for women, The Mermaid Mahjong Circle follows two lifelong friends and artists, Evie and Hannah, as they embark on an adventure that takes them from the present to the past and back again, thanks to a tale about a mysterious mahjong tile crafted a century ago. From the moment they discover the extraordinary tile on a beach near San Francisco, Evie and Hannah are caught up in the adventure of …
Author of the Month – July 2020
Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate Author Judy Christie has had lunch at the White House with First Lady Nancy Reagan; met Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon; and ridden across a Southern city in a hot air balloon. She’s run marathons — 26.2 miles — in Alaska and at Disney World, been chased by a monkey on a city street, fished for piranha on the Amazon, and once got a black eye playing putt-putt at the beach. She’s always up for a good story and a good adventure. And no matter …
July Bonus Books
Falling Up in The City of Angels In this raw, honest, and poetic novel, Tony reveals to the reader (and to himself) the exciting and sometimes hollow search for meaning in LA-LA land. Garrett paints a vivid portrait of millennials and relationships in the age of Tinder and friends with benefits. He takes the reader on a voyeuristic journey through his new haunts of Santa Monica, Venice Beach, and Malibu with all their quirky, shady, and wondrous characters. Often compared to:- Bright Lights, …
3 Ways to Spin Your Novel into a Series
3 Ways to Spin Your Novel into a Series So you’ve written a book — you might have even written several different books — but have you ever thought about building a series of novels that are related to one another? If you haven’t considered this yet, it could be a wonderful component of your evergreen book marketing gameplan: after all, you already have an existing readership that will buy your books (and even recommend them to others!). Now, you may be thinking that series are not very …
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Author of the Month – June 2020
Author Cassandra King CASSANDRA KING is an award-winning author of five bestselling novels and two nonfiction books, as well as numerous short stories, essays, and magazine articles. Her latest book, Tell Me A Story (William Morrow 2019), is a memoir about life with her late husband, Pat Conroy. A native of LA (Lower Cassandra King is an award-winning author of 5 bestselling novels and 2 books of non-fiction, as well as numerous articles, essays and short stories. A native of LA (Lower …
