Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Howdy Hollywood ( Music, Movie Stars & Mischief From Texas to Tinseltown) In first grade, little Texan Peggy Lauren Horwits decided she would grow up to be a Hollywood singer and meet all the movie stars she dreamed about. And from that moment on, she never wavered. With steadfast determination, a family who cheered her on every step of the way, and a sense of humor that never quit, that little girl created the lifelong singing career of her dreams. Join …
New Author Members – April 2023
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! The Florentine Poet Why have you never heard of the greatest poet who ever lived? Why are the churches closed on Christmas Eve in Florence’s San Frediano district? This mystery perplexes an acclaimed American poet who journeys to the fabled city seeking inspiration. The proprietor of his hotel, raconteur Alberto Giannotti, reveals that the answers have nothing to do with the holiday—and everything to do with poetry. With charm and Tuscan flair, Giannotti …
New Author Members – March 2023
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! The Florentine Poet Why have you never heard of the greatest poet who ever lived? Why are the churches closed on Christmas Eve in Florence’s San Frediano district? This mystery perplexes an acclaimed American poet who journeys to the fabled city seeking inspiration. The proprietor of his hotel, raconteur Alberto Giannotti, reveals that the answers have nothing to do with the holiday—and everything to do with poetry. With charm and Tuscan flair, Giannotti …
New Author Members – February 2023
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace It's 1952 in the small town of Paducah, Ky., and Mrs. Minerva Place would prefer that everyone mind their own business, follow the rules, and if dead, stay dead. Nosy neighbors and irritating church members are bad enough but when residents of the local cemetery start showing up, the quirky widow wonders if she's going crazy. Just as distressing, a new boy in the neighborhood seems intent on disrupting her life. …
New Author Members – January 2023
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! New Beginnings from behind the iron curtain to America The book is an inspiring story of a young woman who at the age of 19 escapes from communism to pursue her dreams in the most free country in the world, America. She builds a successful life starting only with her clothes on her back. The book is educational as it describes history in an Eastern European country during communism, immigration during communism and the formation of new democracies after the …
New Author Members – December 2022
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Spanish Pieces of Eight An adventure novel, Spanish Pieces of Eight, is a modern-day treasure hunt set in Silicon Valley and the British Virgin Islands. A Silicon Valley marketing wiz and worldwide sailor, Richard Dennison, dies hours before he is set to undo a complicated and family-busting competition for a vast treasure trove of Spanish gold and silver. Spoiled and self-centered, his children begin trying to unwind the clues to the proverbial “pot of …
New Author Members – November 2022
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Red Clay Suzie Fueled by tomato sandwiches and green milkshakes, and obsessed with cars, Philbet struggles with life and love as a gay, physically-misshapen boy in rural Georgia. He’s happiest when helping Grandaddy dig potatoes from the vegetable garden that connects their houses. But Philbet’s world is shattered and his resilience shaken by events that crush his innocence and sense of security; expose his physical deformity skillfully hidden behind …
New Author Members – October 2022
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Bycatch SOUTHERN FICTION - THRILLER A fisherman’s murder in Mississippi unwinds the dark truth from Vietnam and exposes unfathomable guilt. Rex Thompson has not spoken of the felony he committed in Vietnam for over two decades. When his ne’er-do-well sons scuttle a shrimp boat in the Biloxi Bay and drown an immigrant fisherman who had witnessed this crime, Rex is flooded with remorse but remains silent. His secrets seem to wash away in the muddy …
New Author Members – September 2022
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! The Memory Keeper of Kyiv In the 1930s, Stalin’s activists marched through the Soviet Union, espousing the greatness of collective farming. It was the first step in creating a man-made famine that, in Ukraine, stole almost 4 million lives. Inspired by the history the world forgot, and the Russian government denies, Erin Litteken reimagines their story. In 1929, Katya is 16 years old, surrounded by family and in love with the boy next door. When Stalin’s …
New Author Members – August 2022
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Seeing Eye Girl: A Memoir of Madness, Resilience, and Hope From a young age, Beverly Armento was responsible for her blind, artistic, and mentally ill mother. Though from the outside she seemed to excel at school and in the world, inside Beverly was cowed by her mother's rage and delusions. Seeing Eye Girl is her harrowing story of growing up in an abusive, dysfunctional home, and also a story of inspiration about the teachers who empowered her and gave her …
New Author Members – July 2022
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! The Summer of Grace Ten-year-old Gracie sits on the backyard picnic table, hugging Brown Hound, wiping her nose on the dog’s fur. Her daddy is sending them both to her grandmother for the summer. They are too much for her high-strung mother. It’s 1951 on the NC family farm when Gracie and Brown Hound meet the family. Great Granny Jane smokes a pipe and is fast with her cane, Miss Emily is loving but firm, and Jane, her cousin of the same age, has a …
New Author Members – June 2022
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Marigold Marigold talks to Angels and has read the manifestation bestseller, THE ELEMENTS OF ABUNDANCE, over thirty-five times. Living out of her dead mom’s Subaru at the Denver Airport, Marigold does her level-best to be a positive force in the Universe. However, a cloud of perpetual bad luck dogs her efforts to create a better life for herself. Then one day, Krish McKinley, the CEO of yoga wear giant, Wolf&Bees® steps into Marigold’s massage chair and …
New Author Members – May 2022
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Gravity Hill Gravity Hill is a story about Jordan Hawkins, her family, and a small rural town in Connecticut wrecked by the tragic death of three boys on Gravity Hill. But what first appears to be a tragedy of drunk driving leads back to a mysterious accident that has plagued a small town for years, sending Jordan on a journey to clear her brother’s name. What she discovers—a hidden toxic waste site—sends the whole town on its own bumpy road to …
New Author Members – April 2022
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! ABOUT THE CARLETON SISTERS A dying mother constellates a reluctant reunion by three alienated sisters: a diner waitress, a Las Vegas showgirl at the end of her career and dealing with aging beauty, and a heartbroken alcoholic. ABOUT THE CARLETON SISTERS is located in California's Central Valley during the late 90s. by Author Dian Greenwood Click here to visit her website The Secret of the Grand Hotel du Lac From …
New Author Members – March 2022
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! How We Disappear: Novella & Stories In How We Disappear, award-winning author Tara Lynn Masih offers readers transporting and compelling stories of those taken, those missing, and those neither here nor gone—runaways, exiles, wanderers, ghosts, even the elusive Dame Agatha Christie. From the remote Siberian taiga to the harsh American frontier, from rural Long Island to postwar Belgium, Masih’s characters are diverse in identity and circumstance, defying …
New Author Members – February 2022
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Lady First 'Lady First' is set in contemporary rural Japan. When young Mayumi Ikeuchi is killed on her way home from the nightclub where she works, there is no shortage of suspects. Inspector Inoue must engage in a desperate race against time to identify and stop the perpetrator before more murders are committed. by Author Lea O'Harra Click here to visit her website Holding Fast: A Memoir of Sailing, Love, and …
New Author Members – January 2022
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! AND SILENT LEFT THE PLACE A young woman stands naked and afraid in the South Texas dark. Miles away, a silent old man climbs into his secret hole, burdened by his Great War bargain. On this night in April 1963, the burden of silence passes from old to young in this debut novel by Texas native Elizabeth Bruce. And Silent Left the Place is a lyric tale of violence, redemption, and love reclaimed in the cruel, dry land of Texas. by Author Elizabeth …
New Author Members – December 2021
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
New Pulpwood Authors – March 2021
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Seven Year Summer Part memoir, medical guide and spiritual text, Seven Year Summer is the story of two women destined for death. While in her early 30s, Anna was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of lymphoma and spent over 2000 hours in Canadian hospitals. Seven years later, she met Eleanor, a woman in her 70s dying of renal failure. The two formed an unlikely friendship. Written largely while sitting bedside during the four weeks of Eleanor’s dying, …
New Pulpwood Authors – February 2021
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! How to Make a Life When matriarch Ida escapes a pogrom in Ukraine with her daughter Bessie in order to save her family, she cannot foresee the struggles of her children and grandchildren. Through war, mental illness, secrets and betrayal, each generation’s actions impact the lives of the next. As family members grapple with their differences, they learn that loyalty to their family anchors them in the world and helps them to make a life. by Author …
New Pulpwood Authors – January 2021
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! House of Rose When rookie patrol officer Rose Brighton chases a suspect down an alley, she finds herself in the middle of every cop’s nightmare—staring down at a dead body with two bullet holes from her gun . . . in his back. He’s dead and now she has to explain it, which is going to be a problem because what happened was so strange, she doesn’t understand it herself. Rose must unravel the mystery of what happened and who she really is—a witch of the …
New Pulpwood Authors – December 2020
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Glimmer As You Can Welcome to the Starlite. Let your true self shine. 1962. In the middle of Brooklyn Heights sits the Starlite: boutique dress shop by day, underground women's club by night. Started by the shop's proprietor after her marriage crumbled, Madeline's social club soon becomes a safe haven for women from all walks of life looking for a respite from their troubled relationships and professional frustrations. These after-hour soirées soon bring …
