Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Dance Like You Mean It "...An over the top, often witty escape into fantasy that manages to convey some realistic poignancy on the road to a satisfying conclusion." ~ Kirkus Reviews Middle age finds working women around the world overworked, overcommitted, and over it! Dance Like You Mean It paints a vivid portrait of the all-work, no-play world of Cassie Calabria, a woman juggling a career, marriage, and children. But, Cassie has found the perfect way to …
Pulpwood Newsletter Article: Diving Into Research By Jessica James
When I look back over my career(s), it’s painfully evident that I had trouble figuring out what I wanted to be when I grew up. Thanks to my love of animals (especially all things equine), I started out as a veterinary technician at a state-of-the-art horse hospital. But guess what? Being around sick and injured horses every day is a pretty depressing occupation for an avid horse lover. I just couldn’t do it. So back to college I went for a degree in Journalism. I lasted 18 years in a …
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Pulpwood Newsletter Article: Old Houses And ‘Writing Angels’ by Jessica James
I love old houses. Always have. In fact, the house I live in is more than 200 years old (and only had an outhouse when I purchased it). My vacations always include a visit to a Southern plantation, and if there is an open house at a historic home within 100 miles, I do everything in my power to attend. To me, it’s almost a spiritual experience to walk through the old halls, listen to the squeak of the floorboards, touch the smooth handrails and try to imagine all of the souls that have done …
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New Author Members – November 2021
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! We Gather Together From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Castle and The Girls of Atomic City comes a new way to look at American history through the story of giving thanks. From Ancient Rome through 21st-century America, bestselling author Denise Kiernan brings us a biography of an idea: gratitude, as a compelling human instinct and a global concept, more than just a mere holiday. Spanning centuries, We Gather Together is anchored amid …
Welcome to the November 2021 Cover Issue of the Pulpwood Queens Newsletter!
Welcome to the November 2021 Cover Issue of the Pulpwood Newsletter! Thank you for taking the time to read the latest issue of the Pulpwood Newsletter. We have put a lot of work into communicating better with our members and hope you are getting a lot of value from these new channels. We are excited to share our new announcements with you! The format for our monthly Pulpwood Newsletter Covers Issue are highlights of the most recent news, important book club announcements, and Pulpwood …
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Pulpwood Newsletter Article: How to Bake Ruggelach with Mom by Laura Davis
How to Bake Ruggelach with Mom Dig through the ratty blue file folder you keep your oldest recipes in. Inside, find a lopsided mess of stacked, stained, crispy, ancient papers. They’re not organized into neat categories, or any categories; they’re just shoved in there with no rhyme or reason. But you like it the way it is. You like that it smells musty like old flour and spilled yeast, dried soy sauce and sprinkles of cayenne. Some of these recipes you’ve been carrying in the same …
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Pulpwood Newsletter Article: So, You Think It Was Always a Memoir? by Laura Davis
So, You Think It Was Always a Memoir? When you pick up a book you love, you may think that the author always intended to write it that way—that they conceived of the novel or the memoir to be just the way it turned out—they just had to execute it. Right? Wrong. At least for this author, who writes from the gut and the heart, that was never the case. I’ve just published my seventh book, a memoir, The Burning Light of Two Stars, a mother-daughter estrangement and reconciliation story, a …
Welcome to the October 2021 Cover Issue of the Pulpwood Queens Newsletter!
We have made several changes and improvements to the Pulpwood Newsletter and to the International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Reading Nation over the last couple of months. We are excited to share our new announcements with you and hope you will enjoy them. The format for our monthly Pulpwood Newsletter Covers Issue are highlights of the most recent news, important book club announcements, and Pulpwood author member announcements. Pulpwood Newsletter Article Contributions: Week of …
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New Author Members – October 2021
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! A Memoir of Love and Commitment A page-turning, first-person story of a woman gripped by the sudden onset of bipolar disorder, the evolution of her marriage and how she eventually tames the beast of mental illness. "I knew I needed a break. I didn't realize I'd had one." With hard-earned wisdom and insight, she recalls the trial and error of various psychiatrists and the methods she discovers to alleviate the disorder on her own. Alternately funny and …
Welcome to the September 2021 Cover Issue of the Pulpwood Queens Newsletter!
Welcome to the September 2021 Cover Issue of the Pulpwood Newsletter! We have made several changes and improvements to the Pulpwood Newsletter and to the International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Reading Nation over the last couple of months. We are excited to share our new announcements with you and hope you will enjoy them. The format for our monthly Pulpwood Newsletter Covers Issue are highlights of the most recent news, important book club announcements, and Pulpwood author …
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New Author Members – September 2021
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Meet Me in Mumbai What can possibly go wrong when a woman 'of a certain age' asks the universe to get her out of the rut her life has become? MEET ME IN MUMBAI chronicles the unexpected journey of a sophisticated American woman who longs to escape small-town life and gets her wish to live life large. She falls in love with an Englishman used to wild camping and he dares her to meet him in Mumbai. Knit yourself a seatbelt for the misadventures of the …
The Pulpwood Queen Talks about Creating and Sharing BEAUTY!
As an artist, I put great thought into all my work including being a designer at www.shopvida.com. Type Thepulpwoodqueen into their website search box to see all my collections of art inspired fashions for you and your home. I am inspired from a lifetime of reading, my love of nature and all people and cultures, and my travels around the world. Being also the CEO & Founder of The International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club READING NATION, I want all I am involved with to …
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August 2021 – Pulpwood Newsletter Article: What You Want in a Story, I Want Too by Susan Wingate
As a kid, I loved stories like Charlotte’s Web, Black Beauty, and Old Yeller, to name only a few. When I got a little older, the books became more edgy. I was also in acting and involved in dance, so I was reading a bunch of plays from the likes of William Shakespeare, Anton Chekov, and George Bernard Shaw. One of my favorite musicals was Jesus Christ Superstar. And, yes, I watched the remake in 2018 with John Legend and loved that one too. Again, as I got older, the books I read …
August 2021 – Pulpwood Newsletter Article: THE ELUSIVE LITERARY AGENT by Susan Wingate
One big goal for writers who want to be published by legacy publishers is to retain the services of a literary agent. Literary agents are key to authors selling their work. We consider them the gatekeepers of the publishing industry. They are the gatekeepers because they work as an added filter for publishers of either nonfiction or fiction. I write fiction so I look for agents who represent and who sell works of fiction. Most agents represent both but sometimes an agent will specialize in one …
Welcome to the August 2021 Cover Issue of the Pulpwood Queens Newsletter!
Welcome to the August 2021 Cover Issue of the Pulpwood Newsletter! There are new changes and improvements coming to the Pulpwood Newsletter and to the International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Reading Nation over the next couple of months. We are excited to share those announcements with you and hope you will enjoy them. The format for our monthly Pulpwood Newsletter Covers Issue are highlights of the most recent news, important book club announcements, and Pulpwood author member …
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New Author Members – August 2021
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! The German Client (originally published in Italian as "Rossoamaro.") Private investigator Bacci Pagano can’t resist taking the bait when his new client dangles a check with too many zeros. He should have known that where there’s bait, there’s always a hook. In a hospital corridor, private investigator Bacci Pagano is keeping watch over Jasmìne Kilamba. If she lives, her testimony will shatter a notorious human trafficking ring. Seemingly out of nowhere, …
Welcome to the July 2021 Cover Issue of the Pulpwood Queens Newsletter!
Welcome to the June 2021 Issue of the Pulpwood Newsletter! There are new changes and improvements coming to the Pulpwood Newsletter and to the International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Reading Nation over the next couple of months. We are excited to share those announcements with you and hope you will enjoy them. The format for our monthly Pulpwood Newsletter Covers Issue are highlights of the most recent news, important book club announcements, and author announcement …
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New Author Members – July 2021
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! No Names to Be Given The widely anticipated debut novel by Julia Brewer Daily is a glimpse into the lives of women forced by society to gift their newborns to strangers. Although this novel is a fictional account, it mirrors many of the adoption stories of its era. When three young unwed women meet at a maternity home hospital in New Orleans in 1965, they are expected to relinquish their babies and return home as if nothing transpired. Twenty-five years …
The Pulpwood Queen Embraces Enchanted Living Magazine!
Dear Readers. The photo above was a photo shoot I did with myself out in the woods with my iPhone 10. I had an up and coming RAW Emerging Artists Art Show at the Hard Rock Cafe in Houston, Texas. Set the tone and stage and magic happens, it did that night as my International Pulpwood Queen Book Club members and authors turned out to support me big time. So getting read to do this again as I have a big Art, Book, and Art Inspired Fashion show from my creations to be held this Sunday, June …
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The Pulpwood Queen Shares Her Gratitude for all the Lifelong Friends and Friendships through her 20 years of Running Her Book Club!
Photo of Tiajuana Anderson Neel, Kathy L. Murphy, Brandi Nash, and Bren McClain taken in Nashville, Tennessee. Dear Readers, This photo above popped up as I was drinking my morning Lavazza Creama French pressed coffee. My morning ritual is feed the kitties, make my coffee, then take time for meditation and prayer to start my day right. Then and only then do I check my laptop for emails, messages, and to then go and post my daily Breathless Bubbles & Books Blog by my guest host …
The Pulpwood Gives List of Books That She Will Never Forget, 65, in Fact!
Dear Readers, Book Bub interviewed some authors that listed books that they could never forget. Over half of them I have read and agree. Now let me share the ones that I will never forget and think about often. From a lifetime of reading books, these are the ones that I just sat down and listed off as they came into my mind. 1. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 2) Snow Flower & the Secret Fan by Lisa See 3) Man in a Blue Moon by Michael Morris 4) The Rich Part of Life by Jim …
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The Pulpwood Queen Shares Ethan Hawke’s TEDTALK!
"Down by the River", Acrylic and Alcohol Ink Painting on Museum Gesso Board Dear Readers, SOLD! This will be going as a gift from one of my authors to her niece as she is a minister in Nashville, Tennessee. How thrilling for me! Seeing my works of art go out into the world has been the greatest gift ever given to me during this time of the last chapter in my life.Works of art, these are works of the HEART! This painting was inspired by an image the author who commissioned the work. I had …
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The Pulpwood Queen Celebrates National Women’s Fiction Day!
Dear Readers, Nearly 21 years ago I opened the ONLY Hair Salon/Book Store in the country, Beauty and the Book in the piney woods of East Texas. Shortly thereafter, I started a book club that grew from six complete strangers to become the largest "meeting and discussing" book club in the world, The International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club READING NATION all with our authors in tow. You see I featured first time, first book authors, or ones that may not have been discovered in …
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The Pulpwood Queen Updates from her Little Cabin in the Woods, Murphy’s Law!
Dear friends, Here at Murphy's Law it has been raining for so long and before that an ice storm hit, a foot of snow, more ice, what a winter to spring. Now we are into summer and it just will not stop raining, so The Pulpwood Queen has had to take a break from reading and thrown herself into her painting. Reading, film watching, painting are all escapes for me when life just gets too tough to deal with as they help keep my sanity. I am busy everyday as I have to be, work is what …
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New Author Members – June 2021
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! MIRAGE MAN Connor Harding is a Mirage Man for the New York mob. He’s smart, relentless, and a master of a trade that few people know exists. When it comes to solving problems for the underworld’s most dangerous criminals, he’s the go-to man. If you’ve got a problem, you want him on your side, but if you ARE the problem, you never want to meet him. In Connor’s line of work, mistakes get you killed. Until now, the only mistake he made was thinking his past …
June 2021 – Pulpwood Newsletter Cover Issue
Welcome to the June 2021 Cover Issue of the Pulpwood Queens Newsletter! There are new changes and improvements coming to the Pulpwood Newsletter and to the International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Reading Nation over the next couple of months. We are excited to share those announcements with you and hope you will enjoy them. The format for our monthly Pulpwood Newsletter Cover Issues is highlights of the most recent news, important book club announcements, and author announcement …
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New Author Members – May 2021
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! The Kimono Tattoo “I jostled her shoulder and noticed when I did that her skin was cold to the touch….her entire torso was covered in tattoos of kimono motifs—fans, incense burners, peonies, and scrolls.” This ghastly scene was the last thing Ruth Bennett expected to encounter when she agreed to translate a novel by a long-forgotten Japanese writer. Returning to her childhood home in Kyoto had promised safety, solitude, and diversion from the wounds she …
The Pulpwood Queen Shares All New Reading Initiatives!
Greetings from Kathy L. Murphy, The Pulpwood Queen from Murphy's Law! Updates on all concerning The International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Reading Nation! Just as a reminder for those not on social media we have so many new programs up and coming this year. Check them all out on our updated website www.thepulpwoodqueens.com. With membership, make sure you are current, and by SUBSCRIBING to my Kathy L. Murphy Channel on youTube.com right now you can purchase your 2022 …
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New Pulpwood Authors – April 2021
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Savoring the Camino de Santiago: It's the Pilgrimage, Not the Hike An award-winning memoir and guidebook about the Camino de Santiago, with tales of kings, saints, sinners, and the author herself—all walking a fabled pilgrimage path, the Camino de Santiago in Spain. "Savoring the Camino de Santiago: It’s the Pilgrimage, Not the Hike" recounts the pilgrimage the author made in 2016 via the French route from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port in France to Santiago de …
The Pulpwood Queen Wants to Tell You A Story!
Dear Readers, This morning I want to tell you a story. One about sharing what I have learned about life. Life is a choice. You can dwell on all those that have given you hardness and grief, those who have made you sad and cry, and those who have betrayed your complete trust in them. This is not that story. I forgive those who have betrayed me. I pray for those people daily as I have always found that peoples words and actions tell you a lot more about their pain and sorrow than anything …
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