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The Pulpwood Queen Interviews Author, Jim Markam of “Big Lucky”!

November 15, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

Author, Jim Markam of "Big Lucky" from his home on the big Island of Hawaii Years ago when I was truly just a kid, 19 or 20 years old, I traveled in my first flight ever to Hawaii, the biggest TWA plane flying with two levels and a bar on top, from Kansas City, Kansas to Hawaii. I went with the my dear friend Becky, who owned the beauty salon I worked in in Lawrence, Kansas The Hair Shack and her sister for my first ever grown up vacation. When we arrived it was the first time as we walked …

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New Pulpwood Authors – November 2020

November 9, 2020 By Paul Roberson Leave a Comment

Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Crescent City Moon and Crescent City Sin Things put underground in New Orleans don’t often stay there. Even things that should - like bodies, and secrets. How do you fight an enemy you can’t see that can kill on a whim? In 1820s New Orleans, on the eve of her twenty-first birthday, Zéolie Cheval discovers the mangled body of her father murdered in his bed and a maniacal voice haunting the recesses of her mind. When the priest sent to comfort her is killed …

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Author of the Month – November 2020

November 1, 2020 By Paul Roberson Leave a Comment

Author Judithe Little Judithe is the author of two novels, The Chanel Sisters, to be released December 29, 2020, and Wickwythe Hall, award-winning historical fiction set during World War II. She grew up in Virginia and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. After studying at the Institute of European Studies and the Institut Catholique in Paris, France, and interning at the U.S. Department of State, she earned a law degree from the University of …

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November 2020 Bonus Books

November 1, 2020 By Paul Roberson Leave a Comment

BONUS BOOKS OF THE MONTH Angel Thieves An ocelot. A slave. An angel thief. Multiple perspectives spanning across time are united through themes of freedom, hope, and faith in a most unusual and epic novel from Newbery Honor–winning author and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt. Sixteen-year-old Cade Curtis is an angel thief. After his mother’s family rejected him for being born out of wedlock, he and his dad moved to the apartment above a local antique shop. The only …

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The Pulpwood Queen has a Full Schedule of Events this Halloween Week!

October 26, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

Dear Readers, Here is my Pulpwood Queen Calendar of Events this week! Happy HalloweenPulpwood Queen 2020 October Book of the Month Breathless Bubbles and Books Rebecca Rosenberg's Houdini Halloween posts on your Facebook Group page and featuring Pulpwood Queen Book Club Author, Mandy's Haynes and her latest incredible book at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/booksbubbles/permalink/1593799540828323 Author and Radio Personality River Jordan Wednesday, October 28th, 4:22 pm …

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The Pulpwood Talks about one of her favorite films “Man’s Favorite Sport!

October 21, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

Dear Readers, When it comes to the favorite films of my childhood, tune into the films of the 1960's. This is perhaps my favorite romantic comedy, "Man's Favorite Sport" starring Paula Prentice and Rock Hudson. It's the story of this man who has written a book on a guide to fishing but only one problem. He does not know how to fish! Check out my latest blog on this at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRY0gmHXWfdLWAe7yMjp5bA?view_as=subscriber This is what I dreamed would happen to me …

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The Pulpwood Queen Shares her first book ever, “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”!

October 20, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

Today check out Kathy L. Murphy a.k.a. The Pulpwood Queen as she shares her story of the first book her book club, The Pulpwood Queens, ever read, "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" twenty years ago. This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the founding of The Pulpwood Queens of East Texas which as grown to be The International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Reading Nation, nearly 800 chapters strong nationwide and around the world! Won't you join in to hear about all about the story! For …

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The Pulpwood Queen Shares Tonight’s Pre-Show Interview information for The Pulpwood Queen Film Club!

October 17, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

Dear Readers! Tonight is is our Saturday night, 6:30 p.m. Central Standard Time Pre-show for The Pulpwood Queen Film Club featuring actress, producer, Christina Fernandez Shapter. This was her husband's film and tragically died so Christina has been working tirelessly to promote this documentary that first aired on PBS. Learn all about the story that was one of Texas History's darkest time as all the men in the town of Porvenir, Texas were woke up in the middle of the night, led out of the …

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The Pulpwood Queen Reads and Reviews, “A Dog’s Perfect Christmas”!

October 12, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

Author, W. Bruce Cameron, Tucker, their rescue dog, and his wife and author, Cathryn Michon. https://images.app.goo.gl/qceTe4Ge3eur7rsJ7 Dear Readers, This past Saturday I interviewed Pulpwood Queen Book Club authors, Cathryn Michon and W. Bruce Cameron for my The Pulpwood Queen Film Club at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygVsAFLDn0g. Bruce has a new book coming out October 20, 2020 titled "A Dog's Perfect Christmas" and this is one book that you will want to share with the whole …

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New Pulpwood Authors – October 2020

October 6, 2020 By Paul Roberson Leave a Comment

Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! The Price of Safety By 2047, no crime in America goes unsolved. No wrongdoing goes unseen. When Dray Quintero learns his nineteen-year-old daughter Raven committed a heinous act, he covers it up to save her life. This pits him against the police he’s respected since he was a child and places him in the crosshairs of Kieran, a ruthless federal Agent. To survive, Dray must overcome the surveillance system he helped build and the technology implanted in …

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Author of the Month – October 2020

October 1, 2020 By Paul Roberson Leave a Comment

Author Grady Hendrix New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix has written about the confederate flag for Playboy magazine, covered machine gun collector conventions, and scripted award shows for Chinese television. His novels include HORRORSTÖR about a haunted IKEA, MY BEST FRIEND'S EXORCISM, which is basically "Beaches" meets "The Exorcist", WE SOLD OUR SOULS, a heavy metal horror epic, and THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB'S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES. He's also the author of PAPERBACKS FROM HELL, …

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October 2020 Bonus Books

October 1, 2020 By Paul Roberson Leave a Comment

Trouble the Water Deeply moving and illuminating, Trouble the Water reveals the little-known real-life story of Robert Smalls. Born enslaved before the Civil War, Smalls witnesses great privilege and immense suffering alongside his owner's daughter and the dangerous son of a firebrand secessionist. When he's only twelve, he's put to work in Charleston, where he loads ships and learns to pilot a cotton steamer. When the war erupts and his cotton steamer becomes a confederate warship, Robert …

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The Pulpwood Queen Answers the Cry of the Meadowlark!

September 22, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

Photo credit Carma Wilson of Eureka, Kansas Dear Readers, I will be traveling to my hometown of Eureka, Kansas soon and the Eureka Lake county road was what you drove to get my grandparents home place we called OUTHOME! In this time of social distancing I choose to travel safely and wisely back to where I grew up because they say you can never go home again, but Eureka calls to me as the meadowlark from the prairies of the Flinthills. I plan on reading, which just arrived, my …

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The Pulpwood Queen Is Still Here, Make Each Day Count!

September 21, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/remembering-jan-reid-a-defining-magazine-journalist-and-voice-in-texas-literature/?fbclid=IwAR0yRgjdzN1uEhP8vn8bo2OilEOOlAjlFhMd1OJN_SMwgzg4lsAfsTwRdKo I lost another dear friend, this time a Pulpwood Queen Book Club Author and Texas icon, Jan Reid. It hit me hard as no kinder man have I have ever met. I have two stories that say pretty much it all when it comes to Jan Reid, he was a man of few words in person but his words on paper where some of the …

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5 Things Every Author Should Know About Amazon

September 20, 2020 By Paul Roberson Leave a Comment

It’s hard to deny that Amazon is coming ever closer to achieving omnipresence in the publishing industry. Amazon and Kindle can sell books to readers all over the world. And if you’re an indie author, you may also know that Amazon self-publishing is an increasingly popular route for many writers. Given its far reach and accessibility, Amazon is a factor in your publishing equation that shouldn’t be taken lightly. In fact, there are a number of specific features that come with Amazon …

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The Pulpwood Queen Announces our Fall Line-up for Online Book Club Authors Featured!

September 15, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

Greetings Pulpwood Academy Online Book Club Members! Here is the line up of authors for this fall that I will NOW be interviewing to be followed by question and answer time for our online book club meetings NOW on Zoom. I will be posting the Zoom Link and password on the Pulpwood Academy Online Book Club before the event that week. Tune to this page to get the links as I post them to the meetings. For those of you that do not have a Zoom app downloaded, no worries, you just have to click on …

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The Pulpwood Queen Announces Line-up for Features for The Pulpwood Queen Film Club!

September 11, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

BREAKING The Pulpwood Queen Film Club News! Here is the line-up for the authors, actors, actresses, film makers, and documentary subjects that will be featured by me in my Pre-show and the films to be shown every Saturday night in September, 6:30 P.M. Central Standard Time as follows: September 12th, Author, Actress, Tina Sloan to be followed by a double feature of her films, The Guru https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_8kyVvzj2Q&list=PLgILmhYoOZ-f6iTvdYJG-QWCquKTvj5hd Happy New …

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The Pulpwood Queen Goes to California with A Book Upon Her Knee!

September 6, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

My daughters, Madeleine Alexandrite, Helaina Amethyst Wilkerson and my grand son Hawthorne with my Aunt Marti Whitmer at our 2020 Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend Book Club Convention this past January! Dear Readers, In this time of social distancing I have a lot of time to reflect on who I am, where I am going, and what is my story. I began this journey by doing a DNA test and was surprised. I was told all my life I had Native Indian Heritage, Cherokee in fact, I was wrong. When I …

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The Pulpwood Queen Goes Hollywood!

September 3, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

My mother, Mary L. Murphy, crowned Ms 3D at Emporia State Teacher's College now Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas when she was a student in the 50's as a Speech and Drama Major. Dear Readers, Nobody was a bigger fan of the big screen than my mother, you see her dream was to become a movie star. She bravely traveled by train to Hollywood back in the 50's to see if she could get discovered. You can read all about it my book, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide …

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The Pulpwood Queen features Author, R. Scott Boyer in “Feather Your Nest”!

September 1, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

Dear Reader, Pulpwood Queen Author R. Scott Boyer attended his first Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend this past January 2020 in historic Jefferson, Texas. I had a wonderful time meeting Scott and towards the end of the weekend he purchased on of my Alcohol Ink paintings on metal to have sent back to his home in Los Angeles. This is Scott's story. Kathy: Scott, you will be my my very first Pulpwood Queen "Feather Your Nest: blog for September. Tell me how we each came into each …

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Author of the Month – September 2020

September 1, 2020 By Paul Roberson Leave a Comment

Author Leila Meacham Leila Meacham is a writer and former teacher who lives in San Antonio, Texas. She is the author of the bestselling novels Roses, Somerset and Tumbleweeds. Dragonfly At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds - a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother …

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September 2020 Bonus Books

September 1, 2020 By Paul Roberson Leave a Comment

House of Rose Rookie patrol officer Rose Brighton chases a suspect down an alley. Without warning, her vision wavers, and the lone suspect appears to divide into two men--the real suspect, frozen in time, and a shadow version with a gun. Confused by what she's just seen, but with no time to second guess it's meaning, Rose shoots the real suspect in the back. Forced to lie to detectives, she risks her job and her life to discover the shocking truth of who she really is--a witch of an …

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New Pulpwood Authors – September 2020

September 1, 2020 By Paul Roberson Leave a Comment

Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Solo in Salento SOLO IN SALENTO BEGINS WITH A LIE. Desperate to break out of a life haunted by a wretched past, a loss of faith, toxic relationships, a stressful management career, and a slow sink into domestication, Donna craves time away from everything and everyone, including her loving husband. So she lies, telling everyone she is traveling alone to research a novel she intends to write. While in Otranto, Donna masters the complex recycling system of a …

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The Pulpwood Queen Gives a Birthday Thank You and More Exciting NEWS!

August 30, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

Dear Readers, First of all THANK YOU to all who wished me a very Happy Birthday. I also will tell we raised in honor of my birthday well over $1,000 to the Pat Conroy Literary Center and honestly we have one day left to contribute. If everyone of my members and authors would just donate $1 we could quadruple this fundraiser to the best literacy program ever, one of my charities of choice! Check out my NEW The Pulpwood Queen Film Club Facebook group page and new youtube …

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The Pulpwood Announces 2022 Girlfriend Weekend Featured Authors and Presenters!

August 24, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

Dear Readers! Check out so far our CONFIRMED Keynote Authors and Presenters for our up and coming 2022 Pulpwood Queen Book Club Girlfriend Weekend, location to be announced at https://www.facebook.com/Pulpwoodqueen/media_set?set=a.10219958205440275&type=3 <iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPulpwoodqueen%2Fposts%2F10219965623945733&width=500" width="500" height="708" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" …

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The Pulpwood Queen “Feather Your Nest” Blog on ART!

August 22, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

Dear Readers, Whether you "Feather Your Nest" with the "Dreaming of Italy" Alcohol Ink and Acrylic painting that my dearest friend, client and Pulpwood Queen Leader Margie Dilday of The Pulpwood Queens of West Monroe, Louisiana did with the purchase of this painting above by me, or "Feather Your Nest" with your art or others, do note that art is personal. Showcasing art is a way to convey your own signature style in your home. One of of kind anything gives anything a more statement …

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The Pulpwood Queen “Feather Your Nest” Blog Featuring Murphy’s Law!

August 21, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

Dear Readers, Welcome to my little cabin in the woods, Murphy's Law. This is where I live at Holly Lake Ranch, Texas and where I have added my Art Studio by enclosing my former carport, shed, into my glass enclosed artist working space. Today I will in my "Feather Your Nest" I will focus on the outside of my home as that is important too! Thank you for coming by for a visit! Here is one of the wreaths I have created from my forest finds to decorate my home. This bird feeder greets …

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The Pulpwood Queen “Feather Your Nest” and Ironically, with CATS!

August 20, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

Dear Readers, Today's post on "Feather Your Nest" is all about cats. Mine in fact, Ferrelina my gray and white rescued ferrel kitten and Rush, my sleek little tabby also a rescue. I have had so many pets through the years, dogs, cats, and my daughters had lizards, turtles, frogs, once a flying squirrel, hermit crabs, if they could catch it, we had a new pet. Once Lainie came in the house wearing lizard earrings as each one she caught clamped down on an ear lob. It was pretty alarming to …

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The Pulpwood Queen “Feather Your Nest” Blog Features Lighting!

August 19, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

Dear Readers! Today on my "Feather Your Nest" I am going to talk about lighting in my little cabin in the woods, Murphy's Law. Most of the lighting in my home comes from either unique finds at estates sales, antique and resale shops, but mostly designer Angie Hudson of Made in the Shade in Jefferson, Texas! I love her lamps and light features so much they are throughout my home. Pictured above is the birdcage light fixture that I embellished, because I can never leave well …

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The Pulpwood Queen “Feather Your Nest” with Travel Souvenirs!

August 18, 2020 By Kathy Murphy Leave a Comment

Dear Readers, No matter where I go, I always bring back something that reminds me of that trip. Above, these are little raku ceramic pots that I have picked up from galleries and museums that I have visited all in my little cabin in the woods, Murphy's Law as I "Feather My Nest". This is an African doll that I picked up at the Chicago Art Institute on one of my visits that I have had now for over 25 years. I often go to estate sales and find the most incredible art work …

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