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Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club members! This feature just came out of the blue.  Peter de Kuster contacted me that he wanted to feature me on his blog post and I have to say I was so impressed with what he is doing.  Check out the feature he did on me and then go back and see others that he has done of authors from around the world.  I know I shared Pulpwood Queen Author Caroline Leavitt's interview and one is coming up with Jamie Ford that I reccommended he do.  So a big …

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Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club members and beyond! My life is an open book. I had this Sunday to get everything done for the week.  So today was going along pretty seamlessly, homework proceeding nicely, FINALLY got my hair colored and highlighted, then supper time came for my cats.  I have three, all rescue, inside cats.  Rush jumped up on the arm of my chair to notify me it was dinner time and to the cat dish, we go.  I called the other cats and what, no Churchie.  Churchie, …

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Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys, Each year NEW Banned Book Reads are posted.  I remember back from my bookseller days being shocked to learn that The Little House on the Prairie books had been banned because someone had declared they were derogatory to Native Americans.  Yes, evidently Ma had become fearful as she learned from Pa that some Indians were nearby.  Folks you can not rewrite history, white settlers were fearful of the Native Americans but mostly because of what some previous …

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Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timbers Guys Book Club members and readers everywhere! Jim Davis of The Louisiana Book Festival sent me this to post to YOU as a special invitation to come to this incredible event.  I will be doing a workshop at the weekend and also a panel with Pulpwood Queen Louisiana Book Club Authors, Judy Christie,  Julie Cantrell AND Celeste Fletcher McHale!  What is NOT to LOVE!  I'll be bringing Pulpwood Queens with me from Texas and hope that ALL of you can join me for as …

Continue Reading about The Pulpwood Queen to be featured at the Louisiana Book Festival!

    Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys, book lovers, and readers everywhere, Ah, the great mystery of life!  This past weekend I have been on several missions.  First, to get a good bit of my artwork out of my house into my NEW studio and second, so I can have some room to think. Who in the world am I?  That takes a good amount of time and it ended up being a whole lot time and a good amount of hard, physical work moving a bookcase, ceramics, artwork and more trying to …

Continue Reading about The Pulpwood Queen in Wonderland!

  Dear Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, book and art lovers, and those who NEED a clubhouse! You all when I was growing up in Kansas, every waking minute was spent outdoors.  My time of play was building tree houses, forts, and clubhouses, as perfect places to read.  My best friend Debbie Teegardin and I were always on the hunt for a secret location.  When I went back to college I realized as an older adult I had lost my sense of wonder and imagination.  How could I reclaim it?  I began …

Continue Reading about The Pulpwood Queen has built her NEW Club House!

Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club members and book lovers everywhere! This weekend I would like to showcase The Pulpwood Queens of Woodland, California, the READERS IN THE HOOD!  This book club is run by Marsha Toy Enstrom, the book blogger, The Book Club Cheerleader and you all, this book club does just that! We met because I had the brothers, Franz and Kurt Wisner come to visit my Pulpwood Queens of East Texas, who wrote the book, "Honeymoon with my Brother: A Memoir written …

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Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guy Book Club members! Today's blog is to feature my incredible author friend, New York Times Bestselling Author JAMIE FORD!  Jamie had his BOOK LAUNCH yesterday in his home state of Montana and here was what he posted after that event! Jamie Ford added 2 new photos — with Tracy Jerman Houck and Ken Robison.  1 hr · Had a great time at B&N last night--thanks for being there! And they ran out of books! Fortunately, …

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Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Members! Today is the launch day for Pulpwood Queen Author, Marybeth Mayhew Whalen!  Here is a very special message from Marybeth below that I hope all of you will follow to the T!  Our authors mean so much to us, let's not only buy and read their book but truly help them get that book into the hands of readers everywhere! Below are some easy and free things you can do to help spread the word about WHEN WE WERE WORTHY. (This list came from …

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