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The Pulpwood Queen to be featured in New magazine, FENCEPOST!

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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, …

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The Pulpwood Queen Declares Happy Book Birthday to OUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES!

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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 …

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The Pulpwood Queen is an Artist Sharing my Joy of Painting with all of YOU!

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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 …

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The Pulpwood Queen Announces Poet, Tim Conroy Will do a Special Presentation at our 2019 Girlfriend Weekend!

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Poet, Tim Conroy Dear Readers! It is with great pleasure I am pleased to announce that at this coming 2019 Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend, poet, Tim Conroy will be doing a special presentation as follows.  This is will be an event you do not want to miss and will happen after our Saturday Awards Presentation for Books of the Year and the announcing the winner of The Doug Marlette Award and before Author Silent Auction winners announced that's entire proceeds to to The Pat Conroy …

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The Pulpwood Queen Morning Musing Since Turning 62!

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Dear Readers! Kathy L. Murphy, Tiajuana Anderson Neel, Kathy Rape, Dinkie, Diane Stubbs, and Stephanie Chance   What I have learned now in my 62 years of life is that friendship and community are more important than stepping on others in the power play of winning, to reach the top rung of the ladder. What is the most important thing in life is our sharing of each other's lives?  Success is not in a big bank account or beating down your brothers and sisters. If that was the case I …

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The Pulpwood Queen Updates On Our Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend And Featuring New Author Discoveries!

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Dear Readers! Check this out on the UPDATED photo album of CONFIRMED authors and their books and our CONFIRMED vendors at https://www.facebook.com/Pulpwoodqueen/media_set?set=a.10212746032900469&type=3 Recent additions are Author, Missy Buchanan that has a NEW book coming out to be announced. A popular author/writer and speaker on topics of aging and faith, Missy Buchanan has appeared on Good Morning America with co-anchor Robin Roberts and her mother, Lucimarian Roberts. The elder …

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Updates from The Pulpwood Queen on Author/Designer, Phebe Phillips and Mac Hargrove AND MORE BREAKING NEWS!

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Allen and Stephanie Chance, Phebe Phillips, Mac Hargrove, and photobomber, Kathy L. Murphy at Decorate Ornate in Gladewater, Texas! Dear Readers, This past weekend Pulpwood Queen Tiajuana Anderson Neel and I traveled to Stephanie Chance's Decorate Ornate as my 4th year invited to be featured during the City of Gladewater, Texas, ArtStroll and Wine Swirl.  See the previous post for that photo montage.  While we were there we meet old friends and made some new ones including the …

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The Pulpwood Queen to be be featured in the book, “OUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES!

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Dear Readers, This message just in from Author/Artist/Editor Nicole Seitz of the up-and-coming book, OUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES! Nicole Seitz Our Prince of Scribes contributor number 32 of 67...this phenom began as a licensed cosmetologist and bookstore owner who went on to create the Pulpwood Queens, the biggest "meeting and discussing" book club in the country, and recently earned a degree in visual art. She's the author of The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara-Wearing, …

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The Pulpwood Queen says, “If a picture is a thousand words, I say here is a whole tome!”

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  Dear Readers! I thought I took a lot of photos, but Stephanie Chance has me beat of Decorate Ornate where I was invited back for the 4th year for their ArtStroll and Wine Swirl in Gladewater, Texas.  We started even more Pulpwood Queen Book Club chapters, more members, sold many of my art-inspired fashions and books!  What again another successful and BIG TIME FUN DAY with Stephanie Chance! I too hope you will check join my book club at www.thepulpwoodqueens.com.  Click …

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The Pulpwood Queen Big REVEAL! Check out the Inside of my NEW GLAMPER!

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Kathy L. Murphy, The Pulpwood Queen with her NEW Glamper she had named MARK! Dear Readers, This summer went way to fast but have I worked hard and had so much fun.  The past two days have been a blur of activities. First, Pulpwood Queen Tiajuana Anderson Neel and I picked up my NEW travel trailer at Camper World.  The goal after traveling this summer delivering paintings and visiting our authors, my artist friends, and book club chapters was to have basically a place now to stay on the …

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The Pulpwood Queen Introduces You to Mark, my New GLAMPER!

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https://www.facebook.com/Pulpwoodqueen Dear Readers, Well, it has happened, yet another lifelong dream coming true.  You see I just purchased a travel trailer at Camper World, Tyler, Texas.  Meet Mark, my GLAMPER! Kathy L. Murphy and Pulpwood Queen Tiajuana Anderson Neel with SOLD sign at Camper World. What is a GLAMPER?  Well, it is a trailer that will be decorated with all the luxuries and glamorous lifestyle of the ultimate in the camping experience.  Now you all I have been a …

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The Pulpwood Queen Plans her Birthday Bash at Tyler State Park in Tyler, Texas And You Are Invited!

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The Pulpwood Queen Plans her Birthday Bash at Tyler State Park in Tyler, Texas And You Are Invited! Dear friends, I recently purchased my very first camper trailer.  I call it Mark after Mark Green, named in honor of the last author to purchase a large painting called "Fireball" below. "Fireball", Alcohol Ink on Museum Gesso Boar, 36" by 24" All my authors and Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club members are truly supporting me now as I make my way as an artist.  That is why …

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The Pulpwood Queen Yesterday Had a “Thelma and Louise” Moment!

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Dear Readers! Yesterday I had a "Thelma and Louise" kind of day,    The photo above inspired me to go after a lifelong dream! I saw it posted on Facebook and have always dreamed of purchasing say maybe not this one but a vintage Airstream, making it my own, a real Bohemian Rhapsody kind of Pulpwood Queen dream fantasy.  Then life got real REAL!  I called my dear friend. Pulpwood Queen Tiajuana Neel and asked, "Do you want to go and look for a vintage trailer?".  Screech goes the needle on the …

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The Pulpwood Queen Announces Winner of Drawing for a FREE Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend Package!

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The Pulpwood Queen Announces WINNER of 2019 Girlfriend Weekend Giveaway! Attention Book Lovers, The WINNER of our drawing today, August 1st, is Kathryn Taylor of Charleston, South Carolina.  She had the winning draw of all that sent me a receipt of purchase of my book or e-book or posted a review as in the drawing below! Congratulations to Kathryn Taylor!  Email me at thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com and I will give you all the information on the Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend …

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The Pulpwood Queen Announces a 2019 Girlfriend Weekend Giveaway!

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The Pulpwood Queen Announces a 2019 Girlfriend Weekend Giveaway! Attention Book Lovers, Don't miss the opportunity to be a possible winner in my 2019 Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend Author Extravaganza Giveaway! All you have to do is buy my e-book or book or write a review and share. Send me proof of purchase of purchase to thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com and you are entered into a drawing. I will do this August 1st, (when the price goes up), to possibly win a FREE complimentary …

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The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara Wearing , Book Sharing Guide to Life NEW Edition!

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Check out my NEW PROMOTION at https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/61d7abfdd62feca7! Attention Book Lovers! My first book, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" is NEWLY republished with a NEW Cover and NEW Foreward. You can purchase the paperback for 13.99, or the e-book for $3.99 or get a real deal on the ebook if you purchase the paperback! This is the first book to read in our Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs. Now that it has relaunched I would be more …

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The Pulpwood Queen Talks About Defining Moments!

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Pulpwood Queen Authors, Kerry Luden Madden, Loraine Despres, Prill Boyle, Suzanne Hudson, Joe Formichelli, and Karen Spears Zacharias at an early Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend that Joe recently sent me! Dear Readers, As I was driving this past week to Fairhope, Alabama I took great note of the landscape.  The lush fields of corn and acres of planted soybeans went by field after field.  The wealth of abundance of working the fields changed to plantation homes, standing pools of water, …

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The Pulpwood Queen, On the Road Again!

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Dear Readers, I am a lifelong learner.  I learned something pretty big this summer when I took the ultimate road trip to Westport, Connecticutt and back, that when you face your fears, something great comes from that plan of action.  I sold a painting, a HUGE painting.  After doing the math on what it would take me to pack and ship this painting to the client I dreamed, I thought in my dreams, what if I just delivered it in person.  I woke up and knew I had to do that so I put on my thinking …

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The Pulpwood Queen Shares the latest on Girlfriend Weekend 2019!

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Dear Readers! FOR THE LOVE OF BOOKS! Never in a kazillion year would I have thought that starting my Pulpwood Queens of East Texas Book Club would grow to become the largest "meeting and discussing" book club on the planet. I think that is pretty amazing what began with six complete strangers has grown to 750+ chapters from coast to coast, five in Alaska, and many more outside of the United States. That first year I invited all the authors I had featured back for an Author …

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The Pulpwood Queen is Celebrating Big Time the 4th of July!

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Happy 4th of July! Truly celebrating as we have a winner for the Alcohol ink painting "Flinthills", that I donated for a Silent Auction Fundraiser for my hometown of Eureka, Kansas after they suffered a devastating F3 direct hit tornado this past week.  Meet Pulpwood Queen Author, Kathryn Casey who won the painting! Author, Kathryn Casey. Kathryn is a dear, dear friend and helped and supported me immensely through the years and she had the highest bid of $110 which will go to the first …

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The Pulpwood Queen Holds Silent Auction for Tornado Disaster Assistance of Her Hometown of Eureka, Kansas!

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Tornado just before it had a direct hit on my hometown of Eureka, Kansas June 27, 2018, 7:21 p.m. Attention Readers, Family, Friends, Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guy Book Club Members, our Authors and Fellow Eurekans! I am hosting a Silent Auction through July 4th to raise funds for the tornado disaster relief of my hometown of Eureka, Kansas.  Graduating from Eureka High School, the Class of 74", the YEAR with MORE we are the hometown of the Eureka Tornados.  In fact, a tornado hit the …

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The Pulpwood Queen Showcases Her Art-Inspired Designs in Home and Fashion at the Runway in the Garden Fashion Show!

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One of my tables displaying my art at the Runway in the Garden Fashion Show in Gladewater, Texas. Dear Readers, I am very lucky in life.  I am very aware of angels who have lifted me up and helped me accomplish my dream of becoming an artist.  When I was in college at The University of Texas in Tyler FINALLY finishing my art degree, Stephanie Chance, author and owner of Decorate Ornate in Gladewater invited me to be featured in the Gladewater Main Street Artwalk in her store.  There I was …

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The Pulpwood Queen is a Proud Eureka Tornado, Class of 74″, The Year With More!

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Dear Readers, Today has been a little surreal as a tornado had a direct hit on my hometown of Eureka, Kansas.  You can usually see them coming if it's daylight but this time the siren sounded and one minute later it hit at 7:21 p.m.  My own mother told me it sounded exactly like a freight train running through her house.  She is fine as all my family.  A huge limb fell but missed the house and the big oak completely came uprooted from my sister's front yard but fell sideways so did not hit …

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The Pulpwood Queen is Back Home Sweet Home at Murphy’s Law!

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Good Morning from my home, Murphy's Law, at Holly Lake Ranch in East Texas. Just home from my Pulpwood Queen "Warrior Goddess" Pop-Up Art and Fashion Book Tour of traveling from here to Westport, Connecticut and back all while visiting my Pulpwood Queen Book Club leaders, our authors and artist friends and delivering commissioned paintings along with my trusty sidekick, Pulpwood Queen Tiajuana Anderson Neel. We gifted those we visited along the way sharing July Author of the Month, Rebecca …

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The Pulpwood Queen Reports from Memphis/Collierville, Tennessee on Last Day of Tour!

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Dear Readers, With nearly 60 hours of driving, over 3,000 miles visiting Pulpwood Queens, traveling 11 states from Holly Lake Ranch, Texas to Westport, Connecticut to visit our book club authors and artist friends, The Pulpwood Queen is weary but her heart is full to bursting.  Tiajuana Anderson Neel and I have had an excellent Pulpwood Queen Pop-Up "Warrior Goddess" Art and Fashion Book Tour!  We have renewed friendships to last a lifetime, shown our art and fashions,delivered commissioned …

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The Pulpwood Queen Headed to Westport, Connecticut on “Warrior Goddess” Art and Fashion Book Tour!

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Kathy L. Murphy, Tiajuana Anderson Neel, and Melissa Conroy   Dear Readers, Leaving bright and early from Philadelphia, Pa to travel to Baltimore, Maryland.  The Pulpwood Queen, a.k.a. Kathy L. Murphy has been on a Pulpwood Queen "Warrior Goddess" Pop-Up Art and Book Tour with her bestie, Pulpwood Queen Tiajuana Anderson Neel.  Yesterday we arrived to meet Author, Artist Melissa Conroy, and family and have a big time ever since.  The trip all started as I am an artist too and I …

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The Pulpwood Queen Stops on Tour to Visit The Pulpwood Queen of Bristol, Virginia!

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Dear Readers, Visiting Pulpwood Queen Lisa Hodgson and her husband Ron, in Bristol, Virginia.  It is beautiful here with the temperature this morning 61 degrees with no humidity.  I am in heaven!  Short and sweet this morning but will tell you more later when I get home but we are headed to Runson, New Jersey to deliver a painting so back soon!  Love you all and Lisa and Ron are the BOMB! Truly, Kathy L. Murphy Email: thepulpwoodqueen.com www.thepulpwoodqueens.com For my art …

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The Pulpwood Queen Arrived in Memphis/Collier!ville, Tennessee to Visit Artist, Alisa Free!

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Artists, Kathy L. Murphy and Alisa Free Dear Readers, Our first day of my Pulpwood Queen Pop-Up "Warrior Goddess" Art and Fashion Book Tour was all about ART!  We arrived at the home of Artist, Alisa Free and after a divine lunch in Collierville, went to her Gallery Exhibition "Finding Center" at the Morton Museum of Collierville History.  I immediately felt right at home as the building was the former Christian Church and a sanctuary now for artists.  Alisa Free creates an abstract mixed …

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The Pulpwood Queen Hits the Road on her “Warrior Goddess” Pop-Up Art & Fashion Book Tour!

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Dear Readers, Tiajuana Anderson Neel and I are up bright and early, coffee in hand and headed out the door to embark on our ever-increasing saga of ultimate ROAD TRIPS!  So follow along as we head into the bedroom community of Memphis, Collierville, Tennessee to attend the gallery opening of my dear artist friend, Alisa Free,  Here is the schedule of our trip so won't you join our wild art loving, fashion wearing, reading on the road adventure! "Warrior Goddess" by Kathy L. Murphy, Alcohol …

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Pulpwood Queen Book Club Author Ends Her East Texas Tour in Tyler, Texas!

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' Dear Readers, Making this short and sweet as leaving before rooster crows tomorrow morning for my Pulpwood Queen "Warrior Goddess" Art and Fashion Tour.  Toyota FJ Cruiser packed at Tiajuana Anderson Neels now so we can hit the road! Today we did our last two events with our Author of the Month, Romalyn Tilghman of "To the Stars Through Difficulties! Though a smaller crowd at Barnes and Noble first, then the Tyler Public Library, those that did attend were very enthusiastic and …

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Official 2020 Pulpwood Queen Book Club Selection and more!

Regarding Pulpwood Queen Book Club Selections! If you are an author looking for information about how you can get your book selected as an Official Pulpwood Queen's Book Club Selection, click here to visit our author's membership page for more information. You can now go to http://www.bookshop.org/shop/ThePulpwoodQueensBookShop to order our books, getting them all added so this make take a bit of time, have patience. 2020 Official …

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