Dear Readers, Posting this blog tonight as tomorrow I am packing up and on the road to Decorate Ornate in Gladewater, Texas for Stephanie Chance's Christmas Open House. I will be there as a featured artist as Stephanie has created an art gallery space for me in her shop of European Treasures. I have never been so fortunate. The event starts at 5:00 p.m. Santa Claus will be there too and I so look forward to getting into the holiday spirit with Stephanie Chance! She's on Facebook under Stephanie Chance and Decorate Ornate so see you there with my Pulpwood Queen Executive Director, Tiajuana Anderson Neel traveling in from Longview, Texas! Truly, Tiara Wearing and Book Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Inspirations for our HOW THE WEST WAS WON themed 2019 Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend!
Cast of Netflix series "Strange Empire Dear Readers, Now that the working program is done for our 19th Anniversary Pulpwood Queen Book Club Convention we call Girlfriend Weekend is up on our website, www.thepulpwoodqueens.com. It is now time to prepare for what we will wear to our events. Pulpwood Queens and our featured authors will be dressing in western attire and we want you to be creative. We will be having a decorate your Cowboy Hat TIARA contest and the winner could win a full package to our 20th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend! Go for it and hope you WIN! Authors will be dressing as Country Western Icons to wait your tables at our Author Dinner on Friday Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Announces Tiajuana Anderson Neel is NEW Executive Director of The Pulpwood Queen Book Club Reading Nation!
Happy Halloween Dear Readers! Yes, I would like to Officially announce that Pulpwood Queen Tiajuana Anderson Neel has now been appointed the Official Executive Director of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club Reading Nation. Tiajuana has been with me since pretty much the very start of my founding The Pulpwood Queens of East Texas back in 2000. She has been ever present and always ever ready to volunteer for all that we do to promote literacy. If you have ever come to our annual book club convention, you know that Tiajuana is always there to greet you, get you your packets and help work out any problems that may occur. The woman has SKILLS! Kathy l. Murphy and Tiajuana Anderson Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Announces BEST BOOKS TO HAVE READ FOR 2018!
Dear Readers, Everybody below are posted the BEST BOOKS TO HAVE READ for 2018! I want all Pulpwood Queen Book Club members prepare to VOTE for BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AND BEST BONUS BOOK OF THE YEAR! I will be posting a ballot soon. We have never had more books receive more awards or more book to film options and even books to film on the big screen happen than this year. Won't you join my Pulpwood Queens and yes, Timber Guys Book Club? Go to www.thepulpwoodqueens@gmail.com and get your membership which will help you get a $100 discount to our Pulpwood Queen Package for our 19th Anniversary Book Club Convention that we call Girlfriend Weekend. The Official program is now posted on Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Welcomes Guest Blogger and Author, Michelle Cox!
Pulpwood Queen Author, Michelle Cox Dear Readers! So happy today to share with you a blog from one of our newest Pulpwood Queen Book Club Authors Michelle Cox who also will be featured at our up-and-coming 19th Anniversary Book Club Convention which we call Girlfriend Weekend! The True Story Behind The Henrietta and Inspector Howard Series . . . “I had a man-stopping body and a personality to go with it!” is what the 81-year old Adeline Schneider told me in an interview, shortly after she had been admitted to the nursing home where I once toiled as a social worker. Even with her many health problems, some of them of a terminal nature, Adeline had a lean, Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen UPDATED Press Release for 2019 Girlfriend Weekend Program!
The Pulpwood Queen UPDATED Press Release for 2019 Girlfriend Weekend Program! Be the first to donate! Show your passion for Pat Conroy Literary Center Inc by making the first donation. Any amount can help motivate your friends to support the cause. Donate Attention 2019 Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, our Authors, Attendees and those who are thinking about coming to our 19th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend! PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 4, 2018 – Jefferson, Texas – We are proud to announce that this up-and-coming book club convention will now be held back home at the Jefferson Tourism & Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Announces New York Times Bestselling Author, Paula McLain CONFIRMED for 2019 Girlfriend Weekend!
Dear Readers! Thrill oh, thrill Pulpwood Queen and New York Times Bestselling Author Paula Mclain is back and CONFIRMED for our 2019 Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend Author Extravaganza Book Club Convention, January 17 - 19, 2019 at The Jefferson Tourism & Transportation Convention Center in historic Jefferson, Texas. We are so excited as everybody loved her book "The Paris Wife". Also, I was very fortunate to have Paula McLain come and visit my former Beauty and the Book Shop in Jefferson, Texas to film for an episode of my book club talk show, The Beauty and the Book Show to talk about "The Paris Wife". Here is that episode: Beauty and the Book Episode 2: Paula McLain, Continue Reading
Breaking News! The 2019 Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend is Back Home In Jefferson, Texas!
Dear Readers! Click on the link oct-11-web_01 for the front page news breaking story in The Jefferson, Jimplecute of Jefferson, Texas. For full more in-depth feature, stay tuned for this week's weekly publication of The Jefferson Jimplecute. Thank you to Bob Palmer and Mica Wilhite in advance for conducting the interview. See her photo below and she will be covering the event January 17 - 19, 2019 of which we are most appreciative. Truly, Tiara Wearing 2019 Girlfriend Weekend Author Extravaganza Sharing, Kathy L. Murphy Founder of The Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Reading Nation, 760 + strong with three more chapters in the works, stay Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Welcomes Guest Blogger, Author Camille Di Maio!
Author, Camille Di Maio Dear Readers, Welcome Guest Blogger Author Camille Di Maio! She will be one of the featured authors at our 19th Anniversary Pulpwood Queen Book Club Convention that we call Girlfriend Weekend! She is the author of many books including: THE MEMORY OF US (May 2016) - Amazon Bestseller, Holt Medallion Finalist BEFORE THE RAIN FALLS (May 2017) - Holt Medallion Finalist, GDRWA Booksellers' Best Award Finalist THE WAY OF BEAUTY (May 2018) - Amazon Bestseller THE BEAUTIFUL STRANGERS (March 2019) I always get so excited when authors tell in their own words their own story so enjoy and Happy Monday! I think that a book called The Way of Continue Reading
BREAKING NEWS! The Pulpwood Queen Announces NEW VENUE for 2019 Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend!
Howe Truss Train Trestle _ Visit Jefferson Texas PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 3, 2019 - Jefferson, Texas - Due to circumstances beyond my control, I have had to move our 2019 Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend Author Extravaganza book club convention due to a double booking at the previous venue. We are proud to announce that this up-and-coming book club convention will now be held at the Jefferson Tourism & Transporation Convention Center in historic Jefferson, Texas, January 17 - 19, 2019. We have gone back to our roots where everything began. with my former Beauty and the Book and the founding of my Pulpwood Queens of East Texas Book Club in 2000. Tickets and Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Is Now Accepting Bids for 2020 Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend!
Dear Readers! Attention to all who love authors, books, literacy, and reading. I am now bidding out to any city or venue that would love to host my 20th Anniversary Pulpwood Queen Book Club Convention for Martin Luther King Weekend, January 16 - 18, 2020! This will be our biggest celebration ever of running the largest "meeting and discussing" book club in the world, hosted by our 760+ chapter Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Reading Nation. Nearly 50 authors are featured including some of those from our past, New York Times Bestsellers, Fannie Flagg, Pat Conroy, Jamie Ford, Lisa Wingate, John Berendt, Alice Hoffman, Jeannette Walls and celebrities too such as Supermodel Paulina Portizkva, Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen is Beginning to See the Fruits of her Book Clubs “Literacy” Promoting Labors!
Dear Readers, Below you will read a message that was in my inbox today of the 2nd Annual Lowcountry Book Club Convention. As I am currently working on my next book, "The Pulpwood Queen Goes Back to School" it has been nearly ten years since I published my first book, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" now published under my maiden name Kathy L. Murphy with a New cover and New forward. Pat Conroy and his lovely and talented wife, Cassandra King Conroy both blurbed my book. That was a really big deal to me as Pat first, was and still is my all time favorite author and Cassandra's books, I adore and have selected every single one as Pulpwood Queen Book Club Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen to be featured in New magazine, FENCEPOST!
Dear Readers, Meet Sharon Lamkin Feldt above and read her recent blog post. Last January I had a fantastic weekend--- fantastic for ANYONE who reads, writes or aspires to be an author! Kathy L. Murphy, the original Pulpwood Queen held court at the beautiful Fredonia Hotel. Authors, publicists, editors galore attended, along with 100+ leopard-clad, tiara-topped readers. We were able to mix, mingle, glean gems of writing secrets, and meet the authors. Panels of authors shared their stories, told about their latest projects and newest novels, and entertained us royally! Friday night we were treated to a delicious Bar-B-Q, served by the authors themselves. Saturday night was the Big Hair Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen Declares Happy Book Birthday to OUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES!
Dear Readers, Happy Book Birthday to OUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES this September 18, 2018, edited by Nicole Seitz and Jonathan Haupt. I am one of the nearly 70 writers and authors who contributed to this book which was one of the proudest accomplishments of my life. You see, Pat Conroy was my favorite all-time author and to be asked to tell my story was such an honor and a privilege, I can never thank the editors enough. Authors, Pat Conroy and John Warley Though I contributed my story, I did not have the opportunity to read all the others until recently. I read it cover to cover weeping in joy, oh, the stories, the glorious stories. Then I turned around and read it again really Continue Reading
The Pulpwood Queen is an Artist Sharing my Joy of Painting with all of YOU!
Dear Readers, I am an artist. Many of you know me as the founder of The Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs, perhaps you know too I am an author of now my first book is in its third printing, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" by Kathy L. Murphy. The third printing has a NEW cover, my artwork, and a New foreward explaining that I am now back to my maiden name since my divorce nearly five years ago. All my life I have wanted to be an artist, writing and reading all the way as if I said it once, I have said it a kazillion times, "Books Saved Me"! So I wrote the story of my journey and why promoting authors, books, literacy, and reading is so Continue Reading