BOOKS, FOOD, AND LIBRARY LOVE AT THE RMS QUEEN MARY’S SECRET SPICE CAFE DINNER AND TOUR NOVEMBER 2 @ 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM FacebookTwitterTumblrPinterestCopy LinkShare What’s better than a Day of the Dead book event that offers gourmet dining, and takes place on an 85-year-old, Art Deco, haunted ship? How about one that offers all that, and raises money for a new library? This fall, the RMS Queen Mary will debut a spectacular event for literature and library lovers, history buffs, ship aficionados, and gourmet foodies, at the Queen Mary Secret Spice Cafe Dinner and Tour, on Saturday, November 2, 2019 in Long Beach, California. Join author Patricia V. Davis for an Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Announcing Fall Calendar of Events!
The Pat Conroy Low Country Book Festival Saturday, September 28, 2019 | 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Technical College of the Lowcountry, MacLean Hall 104 Reynolds Street, Bldg 12, Beaufort, SC Please register in advance at www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/2564858 The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s third annual Lowcountry Book Club Convention is a day of educational conversations and fellowship programs for book club members and those considering joining a book club. This free public event is presented in partnership with the Technical College of the Lowcountry and NeverMore Books, and is funded in part by a generous gift from the Pulpwood Queens Book Club. 2:00-2:30 p.m. Meet Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Heads to Patricia V. Davis Event Aboard The Queen Mary!
ATTENTION PULPWOOD QUEEN BOOK CLUB MEMBERS! Just arrived back home after a whirlwind of road warrior driving to my 45th Class Reunion with my sister, Karen Penner to driving to North Dallas to visit my daughter, Helaina with my new grandson. He was trying out the New Amish child's rocker my cousin, Cindy Saunders gave him! Back home last night so this exciting news just in from Pulpwood Queen Author, Patricia V. Davis! Pulpwood Queens you just have to join me, Heidi Surber Teichgraeber, leader of my hometown Eureka, Kansas chapter and Sharon Feldt , editor in chief of Fencepost Magazine and who is the leader of my Sulphur Springs, Texas chapter are going and we are flying in to Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Travels to Eureka, Kansas for her 45th Eureka Tornado, Class of 74 Reunion!
Dear Readers! Yes, the is me and my best friend back in the days of wearing our royal blue pep club uniforms with bobby socks and red velvet tennis shoes. We wore those uniforms sometimes three times a week as we never missed a sports event, we were the PEP CLUB! Heidi Surber Teichgraeber and I have known each other since the 2nd grade when her family moved on to our block in Eureka, Kansas. Our back yards backed into each other so we were all destined to meet the three Surber girls meet the three Murphy girls. Heidi and were the same age and Ericka and my sister, Karen were too, best friends forever. Here's a picture of us now! That's my sister, Karen, Erika, me, and Heidi with Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Travels to NYC for Cinderella to CEO Awards as a Nominee!
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 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. All scholarships have been given and just waiting on an essay. We are no longer looking for those to participate in the essay contest. Read All About It and let's make someone's dream to attend come true! 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 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