Dear Book Club Members, Authors, and Book Lover's Everywhere! The Test Zoom Meeting yesterday with all our authors to prepare for our biggest event ever, our 2021 Girlfriend Weekend Author Extravaganza Zoomathon Slumber Party, January 14 - 17, with our authors was such a blast that we dreamed up three more opportunities to hang out with our favorite authors, panel moderators, bloggers, presenters keynote speakers, and special surprise guests! Three Slumber Parties for the …
The Pulpwood Queen Showcases 2021 January International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Selections!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! https://images.app.goo.gl/54txYgbUY https://images.app.goo.gl/gxhS3bzYB https://youtu.be/rU0O9g2qf-4 Tonight join me at 6:30 p.m. CST for my Pre-show of our International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Film Club! After my book and film talk, may I suggest you watch "Happy New Year" starring Shah Rukh Khan to get our NEW YEAR started right with this International World Dance Competition and story. I'll be talking tonight about our 2021 January …
The Pulpwood Queen Begins With Saying “Once Upon A Time”!
Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) Tweeted: Here's wishing you all a safe, happy and prosperous 2021... https://t.co/COgpPzPEQJ https://twitter.com/iamsrk/status/1345245637676208131?s=20 HAPPY NEW YEAR! I woke up this morning first to see this tweet above from Shah Rukh Kahn who seriously got me through this year of the Covid virus and our time of social distancing. I have seen all his films, many over and over, and watched every speech, every talk, and every post on YouTube, Facebook, and …
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The Pulpwood Queen Receives Gifts to Share this New Year’s Day!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! As we begin this sparkly brand NEW YEAR, do note the price just went up today for our first ever virtual online 2021 Girlfriend Weekend Zoomathon Girlfriend Weekend. Yes, with any of our four memberships the price is now $299 but we still have a great deal for you. For all who sign up now until the event, Sean Farjadi has offered two prizes for a two drawings that will be given during our event. Sean Farjadi is a podcaster of Stories That …
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2021 Girlfriend Weekend Zoomathon Slumber Party Book Club Convention Program!
OFFICIAL PROGRAM THE INTERNATIONAL PULPWOOD QUEENS AND TIMBER GUYS BOOK CLUB 2021 GIRLFRIEND WEEKEND ZOOMATHON SLUMBER PARTY JANUARY 14-17, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Holly Lake Ranch, Texas – January 11, 2021 Contact: Kathy L. Murphy, CEO and Founder of The International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Reading Nation and Girlfriend Weekend Email: thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com Website: www.thepulpwoodqueens.com For Media Only: For urgent requests, please contact Echo …
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The Pulpwood Queen Receives An Incredible Gift from Eileen Sanchez of Prose and the Pandemic!
Hi, I’m Sean, the host of the Stories that Empower podcast. Here’s my story. I took my dad to a pub to create father and son memories. He began sharing his life experiences, full of resilience, with nearby patrons. When it was time for us to leave, they were so saddened. That’s when I realized that stories encapsulate “nuggets” of life wisdom that span generations. Each of us has a life story. I want your story to be heard. I, like many, have experienced setbacks/challenges, like the loss of …
2021 International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Convention Girlfriend Weekend Zoomathon Slumber Party!
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 …
The Pulpwood Queen Featured Authors, Presenters, and Moderators CONFIRMED for our 2021 Girlfriend Weekend Zoomathon Slumber Party!
Dear Readers, I have had so much to reflect on this year during out time of social distancing during the Covid -19 pandemic, I have to tell you that when I look at the big picture, I realize that I have found myself. Yes, a small town Kansas girl has accomplished a lot in my life. Mostly through trials and errors but instead of failures, I call those attempts "discoveries", as in I discovered that did not work. What I have also found is that when you "follow your bliss" that for me is …
The Pulpwood Queen shares “Finding Joe” to Follow Your Bliss!
Dear Readers, Tonight I absolutely came on something quite by accident, only I do not believe now it was an accident. I had watched an incredible film set in Morrocco, some place where I had always wanted to go then another film popped up, "Finding Joe". Within minutes of watching this film knew that this was something I had to share with the world. I remember when Joseph Campbell was a hot commodity in the bookstore decades ago that I was working in at the time. I know now I was not …
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The Pulpwood Queen Announces her 2021 Official Reads!
Press Release for Immediate Release: December 1, 2020 Dear International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Members, Authors, Readers, and Book Lovers everywhere! Go diverse, go global! Let's roam and explore around the world with my 2021 Official Pulpwood Queen Book Club Reads! In addition to our Official Pulpwood Queen and Timber Guys Book of the Month selections in 2021, I, as the founder of The International Pulpwood Queen and Timber Guys Book Club Reading Nation, chose an …
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The Pulpwood Queen Has So Much to Share this Friday!
Kathy L. Murphy with photographer, Kevin Garrett, photo by Stephanie Chance Authors, Kathy L. Murphy, Kevin Garrett, and Stephanie Chance show off their latest books at Decorate Ornate in Gladewater, Texas Dear Readers, This week has been such a week that I will always treasure. World Travel Photographer, Kevin Garrett called and he was coming to do a photo shoot of me for all my future endeavors. What a day we had and here is just a teaser of some of his photos, I loved them all. …
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The Pulpwood Queen Interviews Author, Jim Markam of “Big Lucky”!
Author, Jim Markam of "Big Lucky" from his home on the big Island of Hawaii Years ago when I was truly just a kid, 19 or 20 years old, I traveled in my first flight ever to Hawaii, the biggest TWA plane flying with two levels and a bar on top, from Kansas City, Kansas to Hawaii. I went with the my dear friend Becky, who owned the beauty salon I worked in in Lawrence, Kansas The Hair Shack and her sister for my first ever grown up vacation. When we arrived it was the first time as we walked …
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The Pulpwood Queen has a Full Schedule of Events this Halloween Week!
Dear Readers, Here is my Pulpwood Queen Calendar of Events this week! Happy HalloweenPulpwood Queen 2020 October Book of the Month Breathless Bubbles and Books Rebecca Rosenberg's Houdini Halloween posts on your Facebook Group page and featuring Pulpwood Queen Book Club Author, Mandy's Haynes and her latest incredible book at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/booksbubbles/permalink/1593799540828323 Author and Radio Personality River Jordan Wednesday, October 28th, 4:22 pm …
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The Pulpwood Talks about one of her favorite films “Man’s Favorite Sport!
Dear Readers, When it comes to the favorite films of my childhood, tune into the films of the 1960's. This is perhaps my favorite romantic comedy, "Man's Favorite Sport" starring Paula Prentice and Rock Hudson. It's the story of this man who has written a book on a guide to fishing but only one problem. He does not know how to fish! Check out my latest blog on this at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRY0gmHXWfdLWAe7yMjp5bA?view_as=subscriber This is what I dreamed would happen to me …
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The Pulpwood Queen Shares her first book ever, “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”!
Today check out Kathy L. Murphy a.k.a. The Pulpwood Queen as she shares her story of the first book her book club, The Pulpwood Queens, ever read, "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" twenty years ago. This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the founding of The Pulpwood Queens of East Texas which as grown to be The International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Reading Nation, nearly 800 chapters strong nationwide and around the world! Won't you join in to hear about all about the story! For …
The Pulpwood Queen Shares Tonight’s Pre-Show Interview information for The Pulpwood Queen Film Club!
Dear Readers! Tonight is is our Saturday night, 6:30 p.m. Central Standard Time Pre-show for The Pulpwood Queen Film Club featuring actress, producer, Christina Fernandez Shapter. This was her husband's film and tragically died so Christina has been working tirelessly to promote this documentary that first aired on PBS. Learn all about the story that was one of Texas History's darkest time as all the men in the town of Porvenir, Texas were woke up in the middle of the night, led out of the …
The Pulpwood Queen Reads and Reviews, “A Dog’s Perfect Christmas”!
Author, W. Bruce Cameron, Tucker, their rescue dog, and his wife and author, Cathryn Michon. https://images.app.goo.gl/qceTe4Ge3eur7rsJ7 Dear Readers, This past Saturday I interviewed Pulpwood Queen Book Club authors, Cathryn Michon and W. Bruce Cameron for my The Pulpwood Queen Film Club at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygVsAFLDn0g. Bruce has a new book coming out October 20, 2020 titled "A Dog's Perfect Christmas" and this is one book that you will want to share with the whole …
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The Pulpwood Queen Answers the Cry of the Meadowlark!
Photo credit Carma Wilson of Eureka, Kansas Dear Readers, I will be traveling to my hometown of Eureka, Kansas soon and the Eureka Lake county road was what you drove to get my grandparents home place we called OUTHOME! In this time of social distancing I choose to travel safely and wisely back to where I grew up because they say you can never go home again, but Eureka calls to me as the meadowlark from the prairies of the Flinthills. I plan on reading, which just arrived, my …
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The Pulpwood Queen Is Still Here, Make Each Day Count!
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/remembering-jan-reid-a-defining-magazine-journalist-and-voice-in-texas-literature/?fbclid=IwAR0yRgjdzN1uEhP8vn8bo2OilEOOlAjlFhMd1OJN_SMwgzg4lsAfsTwRdKo I lost another dear friend, this time a Pulpwood Queen Book Club Author and Texas icon, Jan Reid. It hit me hard as no kinder man have I have ever met. I have two stories that say pretty much it all when it comes to Jan Reid, he was a man of few words in person but his words on paper where some of the …
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The Pulpwood Queen Announces our Fall Line-up for Online Book Club Authors Featured!
Greetings Pulpwood Academy Online Book Club Members! Here is the line up of authors for this fall that I will NOW be interviewing to be followed by question and answer time for our online book club meetings NOW on Zoom. I will be posting the Zoom Link and password on the Pulpwood Academy Online Book Club before the event that week. Tune to this page to get the links as I post them to the meetings. For those of you that do not have a Zoom app downloaded, no worries, you just have to click on …
The Pulpwood Queen Announces Line-up for Features for The Pulpwood Queen Film Club!
BREAKING The Pulpwood Queen Film Club News! Here is the line-up for the authors, actors, actresses, film makers, and documentary subjects that will be featured by me in my Pre-show and the films to be shown every Saturday night in September, 6:30 P.M. Central Standard Time as follows: September 12th, Author, Actress, Tina Sloan to be followed by a double feature of her films, The Guru https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_8kyVvzj2Q&list=PLgILmhYoOZ-f6iTvdYJG-QWCquKTvj5hd Happy New …
The Pulpwood Queen Goes to California with A Book Upon Her Knee!
My daughters, Madeleine Alexandrite, Helaina Amethyst Wilkerson and my grand son Hawthorne with my Aunt Marti Whitmer at our 2020 Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend Book Club Convention this past January! Dear Readers, In this time of social distancing I have a lot of time to reflect on who I am, where I am going, and what is my story. I began this journey by doing a DNA test and was surprised. I was told all my life I had Native Indian Heritage, Cherokee in fact, I was wrong. When I …
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The Pulpwood Queen Goes Hollywood!
My mother, Mary L. Murphy, crowned Ms 3D at Emporia State Teacher's College now Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas when she was a student in the 50's as a Speech and Drama Major. Dear Readers, Nobody was a bigger fan of the big screen than my mother, you see her dream was to become a movie star. She bravely traveled by train to Hollywood back in the 50's to see if she could get discovered. You can read all about it my book, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide …
The Pulpwood Queen features Author, R. Scott Boyer in “Feather Your Nest”!
Dear Reader, Pulpwood Queen Author R. Scott Boyer attended his first Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend this past January 2020 in historic Jefferson, Texas. I had a wonderful time meeting Scott and towards the end of the weekend he purchased on of my Alcohol Ink paintings on metal to have sent back to his home in Los Angeles. This is Scott's story. Kathy: Scott, you will be my my very first Pulpwood Queen "Feather Your Nest: blog for September. Tell me how we each came into each …
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The Pulpwood Queen Gives a Birthday Thank You and More Exciting NEWS!
Dear Readers, First of all THANK YOU to all who wished me a very Happy Birthday. I also will tell we raised in honor of my birthday well over $1,000 to the Pat Conroy Literary Center and honestly we have one day left to contribute. If everyone of my members and authors would just donate $1 we could quadruple this fundraiser to the best literacy program ever, one of my charities of choice! Check out my NEW The Pulpwood Queen Film Club Facebook group page and new youtube …
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The Pulpwood Announces 2022 Girlfriend Weekend Featured Authors and Presenters!
Dear Readers! Check out so far our CONFIRMED Keynote Authors and Presenters for our up and coming 2022 Pulpwood Queen Book Club Girlfriend Weekend, location to be announced at https://www.facebook.com/Pulpwoodqueen/media_set?set=a.10219958205440275&type=3 <iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPulpwoodqueen%2Fposts%2F10219965623945733&width=500" width="500" height="708" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" …
The Pulpwood Queen “Feather Your Nest” Blog on ART!
Dear Readers, Whether you "Feather Your Nest" with the "Dreaming of Italy" Alcohol Ink and Acrylic painting that my dearest friend, client and Pulpwood Queen Leader Margie Dilday of The Pulpwood Queens of West Monroe, Louisiana did with the purchase of this painting above by me, or "Feather Your Nest" with your art or others, do note that art is personal. Showcasing art is a way to convey your own signature style in your home. One of of kind anything gives anything a more statement …
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The Pulpwood Queen “Feather Your Nest” Blog Featuring Murphy’s Law!
Dear Readers, Welcome to my little cabin in the woods, Murphy's Law. This is where I live at Holly Lake Ranch, Texas and where I have added my Art Studio by enclosing my former carport, shed, into my glass enclosed artist working space. Today I will in my "Feather Your Nest" I will focus on the outside of my home as that is important too! Thank you for coming by for a visit! Here is one of the wreaths I have created from my forest finds to decorate my home. This bird feeder greets …
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The Pulpwood Queen “Feather Your Nest” and Ironically, with CATS!
Dear Readers, Today's post on "Feather Your Nest" is all about cats. Mine in fact, Ferrelina my gray and white rescued ferrel kitten and Rush, my sleek little tabby also a rescue. I have had so many pets through the years, dogs, cats, and my daughters had lizards, turtles, frogs, once a flying squirrel, hermit crabs, if they could catch it, we had a new pet. Once Lainie came in the house wearing lizard earrings as each one she caught clamped down on an ear lob. It was pretty alarming to …
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The Pulpwood Queen “Feather Your Nest” Blog Features Lighting!
Dear Readers! Today on my "Feather Your Nest" I am going to talk about lighting in my little cabin in the woods, Murphy's Law. Most of the lighting in my home comes from either unique finds at estates sales, antique and resale shops, but mostly designer Angie Hudson of Made in the Shade in Jefferson, Texas! I love her lamps and light features so much they are throughout my home. Pictured above is the birdcage light fixture that I embellished, because I can never leave well …
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