Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Members, our Authors, all Book Lovers and those planning on attending our Annual book club convention that we call GIRLFRIEND WEEKEND! Let's talk about Girlfriend Weekend. What is it? For one weekend a year, always Martin Luther King Weekend as I too have a big dream, I invite in first all the authors of the books we have read, or are reading, or will be reading for 2018. You see I created this book club so I could discuss books, the books …
The Pulpwood Queen Talks About Playing Dress Up!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Members and Book Lovers Everywhere! Being a grown-up is hard, in fact, sometimes it is practically no fun at all. You have a job, you go to work and you have to work to get the pay to pay for all the every mounting bill. There is no recess in adult life unless you save and save them maybe you can get a weekend off to do something that perhaps is fun! Welcome to Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend! When I was a child I got lost in books. …
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The Pulpwood Queen Offers a Special Thanks to Simon & Schuster Publishers!
Dear Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, Girlfriend Weekend Attendees! The Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, and I would personally like to acknowledge and thank, Simon & Schuster Publishers for sending in 40 boxes of advance gallerys and books to give away to all the attendees of my annual book club convention we call Girlfriend Weekend. They also took out a full-page ad in my Girlfriend Weekend 2018 program this year. There is nothing more that I love to do than share great authors, their …
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The Pulpwood Queen Speaks of her favorite charity, The Pat Conroy Literacy Center!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club members and book lovers everywhere! You know I said in my first book, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" that books saved me. They did, as they gave me an escape and a positive addition to improving my life. I found myself through reading. The first book that my 4th-grade teacher personally handed me as she thought I would relate to the character was "Honestly, Katie John" by Mary Calhoun and I devoured that …
The Pulpwood Queen Reflects on the Ripple in the Pond!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs and book lovers everywhere! Yesterday I was a fireman, putting out fires left and right as I worked out the final details for my annual book club convention. But perhaps, in reflection, it is better to know when to learn and pass the hose to the one person more capable as I did to my sidekick Tiajuana Neal, the best shotgun in the world. What was taking me all day to keep the fires at bay, Tiajuana handled it seemed in a matter of seconds. …
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The Pulpwood Queen Asks “Do You Believe in Magic?”
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guy Book Club Members and the Arts Lovers Everywhere! Do you believe in magic? I do. I believe in magic, in fairy tales, in happy endings, and in authors, books, literacy, reading, and the arts. Some perhaps find fault in my belief that we must never lose the magic of the wonder of a child. I sometimes feel that I go back and forth between being Peter Pan to Tinkerbell to Wendy and even to the Lost Boys but I have created my own magical world in which I …
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The Pulpwood Queen has Change Ups for Lineup on Girlfriend Weekend 2018!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Members! When I was small_ Tamra Bolton, Marc Bolton_ 9781979763295_ Amazon.com_ Books As always, at the very last minute, here come cancellations due to circumstances out of my control. Two authors have had to cancel, Johnathan Barrett and Ann Hood but the GOOD NEWS is I have two outstanding authors that are coming, Tamra Bolton of "When We Were Small" on Kindle at Amazon and Romalyn Tilghman of "To The Stars Through Difficulties". To say …
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The Pulpwood Queens LOVES the story behind the stories! Read All About IT!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guy Book Club Members and Readers Everywhere! Scott Wilbanks is one of our Pulpwood Queen Book Club Authors. I am continually amazed by the other lives that they have led or are leading so that is why I created the Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend annual book club convention. This is the ONLY festival that I know of in the world where you actually hang out and participate with the authors of books we are reading to get to know them better. We learn the story …
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The Pulpwood Queen Welcomes Guest Blogger, Clea Simon speaking on Holiday Movies!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guy Book Club members and Book and Film Buffs! Today's guest blog is from Pulpwood Queen Author, Clea Simon and her take on Holiday Movies. I am such an odd duck as I watch all the regular like "It's a Wonderful Life", "The Bishop's Wife" then I like to watch "Olive, the Other Reindeer" and "Nightmare Before Christmas", and Wes Anderson films like "Fantastic Mr. Fox" with my now grown children. But year after year I go back to "Elizabethtown", …
The Pulpwood Queen Announces Guest Blogger, Patricia V. Davis of Books, Bubbles, and Pulpwood Queens!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club members and readers everywhere! First my BIG NEWS! Thrilled to find a contract in my mailbox this morning as my story of "My HERO" was accepted by The University of Georgia Press for a NEW anthology edited by Nicole Seitz tentatively titled, OUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES: WRITERS REMEMBER PAT CONROY! You can guarantee this will be an OFFICIAL Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Selection. Cannot wait to read all the other stories from of some …
The Pulpwood Queen FINALY Graduates from College, TONIGHT!
Dear Pulpwood Queen and Timber Guys Book Club Members, Family, and Friends! The biggest day of my life has arrived. The Pulpwood Queen is FINALLY graduating from college! What began at the age of 17 in 1974 when I began my college studies at Kansas State University continued with further studies at Emporia State University, Grossmont College, Panola College, Texarkana College, Texas A & M University, ends decades later on December 15, 2017 as I walk the stage to receive my …
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The Pulpwood Queen Shares Big News!
Dear Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, and readers everywhere! So my friend and studio mate Abigal Harrison gave me one of her ceramic artworks. I had it on the counter a I was making my Coffee, not the importance of the capital letter then decided to try it this morning as a Coffee cup! It fits my hand perfectly! This is me sharing BIG NEWS! Coffee is important and the perfect Coffee cup, wow, I am having a moment! Thanks, Abbie! Next, I am now advertising authors books on my blogs. …
The Pulpwood Queen Welcomes Guest Blogger, Author, Laurel Davis Huber of “The Velveteen Daughter”!
Dear Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, book lovers and readers everywhere! Welcome Official future Pulpwood Queen Book Club Author, Laurel Huber Davis of "The Velveteen Daughter" who will be featured at our up and coming annual convention that we call Girlfriend Weekend, January 11 - 14, 2018 at The Fredonia Hotel & Convention Center in historic Nacogdoches, Texas! "The Velveteen Rabbit" is one of my all-time favorite reads as a child, as an adult and one that I loved to share with my …
The Pulpwood Queens Takes a Day to Recoup and be Revived, Read All About It!
Dear Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, Readers, and Film lovers everywhere! The New season is now streaming of the Netflix series Longmire, I just watched the last episode of the 6th season. Today was a day of rest and recoup time for me as finished colleges classes, finals, all while fighting a bug that just will not let go. So I made me a big pot of 15 bean soup with some deer meet with sausage that my friend Laura McClelland gave me, the best soup ever. I just holed up in my little …
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The Pulpwood Queen Shares a Message from One of our Authors, Caitlin Hamilton Summie!
Dear Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, our Authors, and book lovers everywhere, Here is a blog post from a NEW Pulpwood Queen Author, Caitlin Hamilton Summie who will be one of our featured authors at our annual book club convention which we call Girlfriend Weekend. For membership and packages go to www.thepulpwoodqueens.com and check out all the caliber of authors coming from all over the country and event out of the country! This is one of the biggest years I have ever done and all while …
The Pulpwood Queen Speaks Out On Reading!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club members, book lovers everywhere! How to find your next great read? NPR just posted, a Book Concierge. While perusing all the books I am constantly reminded of how many books actually get published each year, a lot. So I read books from these lists and from other recommended online sites too like Shelf Awareness which leads to another treasure trove of great discoveries. I have only twelve Book of the Month books to select from an endless sea of …
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The Pulpwood Queen Invites you to my Senior Exhibition, SEVEN!
Dear Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, Book and Art lovers everywhere! Kathy L. Murphy is at Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Tyler. 4 November at 19:47 · Tyler · I would like to invite all my friends to attend my Senior Exhibition Gallery Talk along with my fellow artists titled "7" this November 30, 2017, 5:30 p.m. at The Meadows Gallery on the campus of The University of Texas at Tyler in Tyler, …
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The Pulpwood Queen To Graduate from College! It’s OFFICIAL!
Dear Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, my Authors, and Book Lovers everywhere! It's OFFICIAL! Received the big news in an email today, I am to graduate from college, The University of Texas at Tyler no less. I am beyond thrilled as other than the birth of my two incredible daughters and perhaps selling my option for my book, The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" to film with DreamWorks, (which buckled me to my knees when I heard the news), this is the biggest day of my …
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The Pulpwood Queen Welcome Guest Blogger/ Author Judithe Little!
Do You Like Champagne? I do! Champagne plays a part in my historical novel Wickwythe Hall. It’s the connection between my fictional character, Reid Carr, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. In the novel, Reid Carr is a representative of French champagne house Pol Roger. In real life, Pol Roger was Churchill’s favorite champagne. Voilà! Fact meets fiction. Churchill’s love of libations is well documented. He began each day with whiskey and soda or …
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The Pulpwood Queen welcomes Guest Blogger/Author, Steve Wiegenstein!
Welcome to My World! Steve Wiegenstein First, let me say how thrilled and delighted I am to be attending the Pulpwood Queens Girlfriend Weekend! Years ago, I lived in Shreveport and would occasionally come to Nacogdoches on an outing, so I’m excited to revisit the area and meet with this wonderful group of book lovers. My books fall under the general category of “historical fiction,” so I’d like to give you some idea of what interests me about history and historical writing, …
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The Pulpwood Queen speaks of inspirational SHE-roes!
Dear Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, and Booklovers everywhere! I would like to share this story of my SHE-roe, Alma E. Tippins, otherwise known as Alligator Annie. She came into my world when I first opened my Beauty and the Book in Jefferson, Texas back in 2000. You see Annie had written some children's poetry books, self-published, and dressed as an alligator. She would do presentations as her persona, Alligator Annie. Her enthusiasm is infectious. My children loved her, all the …
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The Pulpwoods Queens, Louisiana Book Festival & Girlfriend Weekend featured in The Shreveport Times!
' Thanks to Pulpwood Queen Author and dear friend, Judy Christie for the fantabulous feature in The Shreveport Times. You will find all you need to know about me and Judy being featured at The Louisiana Book Festival in Baton, Rouge coming up and our annual Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend at http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/life/2017/10/18/upcoming-road-trips-connect-readers-writers/106745196/ For the full program at Girlfriend Weekend 2018 get your membership, packets, at …
The Pulpwood Queens shares The Pat Conroy Literacy Festival!
Attention Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, our authors, and book lovers everywhere! For those that know me, know that I worshipped author, Pat Conroy. His books made me realize that I was not alone and to be able to call him my friend, was my greatest joy. I will miss him forever. But in the meantime, he lives on at the PAT CONROY LITERARY FESTIVAL! If you ever want to attend something besides Girlfriend Weekend, this is it! So many of our Pulpwood Queen Book Club authors …
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The Pulpwood Queen has added MORE AUTHORS to Girlfriend Weekend 2018
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The Pulpwood Queen to be featured at Louisiana Book Festival, October 28th, 2017!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club members and booklovers everywhere! In just four weeks I will be traveling with Pulpwood Queens in tow to Baton Rouge to be featured at the Louisiana Book Festival. I hope to meet many of you all there and will be doing besides a WORDSHOP a panel with Pulpwood Queen authors, Celeste Fletcher McHale, Judy Christie, and Julie Perkins Cantrell! That should get you there for sure as I am thrilled to focus on these Louisiana authors. If any other …
Pulpwood Queen Book Club Author CLEA SIMON’S Life Lessons from her CAT!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys and booklovers everywhere! Don't you just love it when we are given all these life lessons from our authors! This time Clea Simon share with all of us! You will meet her too at Girlfriend Weekend so get your packages now at www.beautyandthebook.com or www.thepulpwoodqueens.com! I'm going to be updating the program this week but it is at the top of the page, more authors you all! Here we go all reading together! Tiara wearing and Book and Author …
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The Heroine’s Journey of Kathy L. Murphy by Peter de Kuster
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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Pulpwood Queen Author, Susan Schild has some great advice!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys! I will be posting guest blogs from our authors as they come in so hopefully this one from our author, Susan Schild, (who will be featured at Girlfriend Weekend 2018), will speak to you. Susan writes heartwarming stories about dogs, women, and men from 40 - 70 having adventures and falling in love again, perfect reads for all our ever-growing book club members and readers everywhere, Truly, Tiara Wearing and Book Sharing, Kathy L. Murphy The …
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Big News for Pulpwood Queen Author, Bren McClain!
For Immediate Release WOMEN’S NATIONAL BOOK ASSOCIATION CHOOSES “ONE GOOD MAMA BONE” FOR GREAT GROUP READS (September 28, 2017, Knoxville, TN) The Women’s National Book Association has selected Bren McClain’s first novel, ONE GOOD MAMA BONE, for Great Group Reads 2017, a list recommending great new books for reading groups. The novel was one of only twenty titles selected. The Great Group Readslist is announced annually in time for National Reading Group Month in …
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The Pulpwood Queen has lost her Kitten, Churchie!
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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