Dear Readers! It would take me some time to tell you the full story of my nomination for Cinderella to CEO Awards held this past week in NYC but here are the highlights! And for all the Getty Image photos of the event go to https://assignments.gettyimages.com/v2/share/f4eeaa9a-a666-424d-9241-6f504fbd3517 Last my list of thank yous to those who made this trip possible and for making this one of the highlights of my life! To Pulpwood Queen Author, Claire Fullerton for nominating me for this incredible honor and award. You hold my heart forever! To Cary J. Broussard, Founder of the Cinderella to CEO Awards, for recognizing unsung women she-roes whose Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years, Read All About It!
Dear Readers from Jonathan Haupt today on Facebook: Jonathan Haupt 12 hrs · I'm honored to have been given the opportunity to contribute an afterword to the anthology The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years, forthcoming this December--edited by Susan Cushman with an introduction by Pulpwood Queens founder Kathy L. Murphy and a foreword by Robert Hicks. This collection celebrates the remarkable community of readers and writers at the heart of 20 incredible years of the world's largest meeting-and-discussing book club, with over 750 clubs internationally. Beyond that, it's a love letter to the transformative, redemptive power of story Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Announces “The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 year’s Pre-order Date”!
Greetings from The Pulpwood Queen! So happy to announce that August 1st will be the laydown date to pre-order our book, "The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years" edited by Susan Cushman, Dedicated To Tiajuana Anderson Neel with Foreward by Kathy L. Murphy, Introduction by Robert Hicks, Afterword by Jonathan Haupt, cover by Nicole Seitz and published by Brother Mockingbird Publishing. All these came together as first Claire Fullerton wrote a feature for Southern Writer's magazine blog on her take of coming for the first time to our annual Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend Book Club Convention. Which got me thinking what if for our 20th Anniversary we put a book together to share all the Continue Reading
Update on Summer into Fall Pulpwood Queen Calendar of Events!
Here is the updated now Pulpwood Queen Calendar of Events going into Fall 2019! Finalists Named in Cinderella to CEO Awards August 8, 2019 Awards Luncheon Honors Women Who Transform, Inspire & Empower July 1, 2019 - New York, NY - The Cinderella to CEO Awards, to be held Thursday, August 8 in New York City, will highlight 36 award finalists and 200+ nominees who have inspiring, modern, tales of transformation, changing the world for the better. Nine category winners, to be chosen by a distinguished Cinderella to CEO panel of judges, will be announced and featured at the August 8 event. The awards luncheon and networking event will be held at the JW Marriott Essex House in Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Announces New Book COVER REVEAL!
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
UPDATE On 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: An update on the Pulpwood Queen "Tiajuana Anderson Neel" Scholarship Fund. We are still looking for those to participate in the essay contest below but I have added a new way to award a scholarship to our Girlfriend Weekend in Tiajuana's name. You can now nominate someone by writing me a letter as to why this Pulpwood Queen Book Club member deserves to receive a complimentary package to our 20th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend. We are looking for someone who has always 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