Full Program on Press Release for 2020 Pulpwood Queens Girlfriend Weekend Book Club Convention!

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact: Kathy L. Murphy, Founder of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club Girlfriend Weekend

Email: thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com

Website: www.thepulpwoodqueens.com

 

TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT!
January 16 – 18, 2020
The Jefferson Visitor & Tourism Center
305 East Austin Street, Jefferson, TX 75657

THURSDAY
1:00 p.m. Registration opens for Girlfriend Weekend at The Jefferson Tourism & Convention Center located just over the railroad tracks toward the train ride to pick up your Pulpwood Queen pre-paid packets and we now have individual tickets for events as packages are selling fast.  Don’t delay, buy your Tickets and Package TODAY!

1:00 p.m. Beginner’s Alcohol Ink Painting Workshop conducted by Kathy L. Murphy. No experience necessary and all art supplies provided. Bring a smock or apron to paint in and you will be able to take your art home with you. $50 for the workshop and must prepay at www.thepulpwoodqueens.com, click on Girlfriend Weekend on the top menu bar to purchase your Workshop ticket.

Go to https://www.thepulpwoodqueens.com/2020-girlfriend-weekend-t-shirts/to pre-order 20th Anniversary T-shirt to help celebrate and commemorate our event! You will be given your t-shirt at registration with your packet. Cut off time is January 1st, 2020 after this date $25 at the event while supplies last.

THURSDAY NIGHT
6:30 p.m. Author check-in for their name tags, pick up packets, and to go over itinerary for the weekend.  Group Photo Authors, be there!

Author Rickey Pittman and musical artist!
“The Shady Ladies” of Jefferson, Texas”

7:00 p.m. doors officially open for all attendees. Entertainment by Author/Musical Artist, Rickey Pittman of “Cajun ABC” and “The Shady Ladies” who will perform for you.  Cauldrons will be placed out to make contributions to the Jefferson Lion’s Club fundraising programs

Former Executive Director of The Pulpwood Queen Book Club Reading Nation, Tiajuana Anderson Neel

“TRIBUTE TO TIAJUANA” Celebration of Life in honor of our former Executive Director of The Pulpwood Queen Book Club Reading Nation.

Author, former Lt. Colonel Mark Green will speak on his humanitarian efforts in the Bahamas

Keynote Speakers, Author, Robert Hicks of “The Widow of the South” and Author/ Songwriter Layng Martine, Jr. of “Permission to Fly”.

Author, Songwriter, Layng Martine Jr.

Introduction of Pulpwood Queen “Tiajuana Anderson Neel” Scholarship Winners. These scholarships were the request of her family and they have been invited to be in attendance as her family will be present and introduced.

January 17– 18, 2020
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Day Panels
All-day Author Panels featuring each hour, authors who are interviewed by moderators followed by the autograph time. All authors featured after their panel will immediately go to AUTHOR AUTOGRAPH TABLE at the VENDOR/BOOKSTORE table. To ensure you get your books signed, go immediately to the AUTHOR AUTOGRAPH TABLES after they speak, pre-purchased books only and be ready to have your book/books signed.
MURDER BY THE BOOK of Houston, Texas will provide the BOOKSTORE for all the author books for the event. Authors also will be available to sign books throughout the weekend but do note some will only be able to sign after they have been featured, which will be announced.
Also, we will have VENDORS, (open 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.), Friday and Saturday that will feature the BEST of the BEST SHOWCASED for our book-loving attendees.
AN AUTHOR SILENT AUCTION will be held with showcased items signed and donated by all our authors. All proceeds from the SILENT AUCTION will go to THE PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTER, (The Pulpwood Queens Book Club endorses this literacy project as our charity of choice). All authors featured donate a signed object that ties in with their book for this literary promoting fundraiser. Be PRESENT and PREPARED to pay for the item you bid on for the Silent Auction by cash or check. 

FRIDAY MORNING
8:00 a.m. REGISTRATION at Convention Center

Author, Reavis Wortham
8:55 a.m.
KATHY L. MURPHY, founder of The Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs, Author of “The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life” her co-host, New York Times Bestselling Author, REAVIS WORTHAM, of “Hawke’s Target”.

Welcome to our TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT themed Girlfriend Weekend Author Extravaganza!

9 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. KEYNOTE SPEAKER, New York Times Bestselling Author, REAVIS WORTHAM of “Hawke’s Target”.

 

9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. KEYNOTE SPEAKER TINA SLOAN, former STAR of “The Guiding Light” and Author of “Chasing Cleopatra”.

BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDORS/BOOKSTORE

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

In celebration of Lauren Marino’s book, author of “What Would Dolly Do? How to be a Diamond in a Rhinestone World!” and Dolly Parton Look-a-Like Contest! We will have all contestants line up for voting by the audience. All attendees including Authors are encouraged to bring on your BEST DOLLY OUTFIT!  I hope you WIN for a complimentary package to Girlfriend Weekend 2021!

BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDORS/BOOKSTORE

Susan Peterson of Sue’s Reading Neighborhood

10:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Moderator: Peterson of Sue’s Reading Neighborhood and her featured authors:

Barbara Davis of “When Never Comes”

Eldonna Edwards of “Clover Blue” and “This I Know”

Deborah Mantella of “My Sweet Vidalia”

Marilyn Simon Rothstein of “Husbands and Other Sharp Objects” and “Lift and Separate”

BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDORS/BOOKSTORE

12:00 p.m. Lunch on your own at the many fine eateries of downtown Jefferson, Texas or within a short driving distance.

FRIDAY AFTERNOON

1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. SURPRISE GUEST SPEAKER, Cary J. Broussard, Founder of the Cinderella to CEO Awards with Pulpwood Queen Author, Claire Fullerton and Cinderella to CEO Nominee, Latonia D. Black of Brotherhood, HIV Foundation! Cary’s  book is “From Cinderella to CEO: How to Master the 10 Lessons of Fairy Tales to Transform Your Work Life”

BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDORS/BOOKSTORE

1:30 p.m. – 2:15 a.m.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Celebrity Stylist to the Stars, Jim Markham, and Echo Garrett of “BIG LUCKY: Serial Entrepreneur Jim Markham’s Secret Formula for Success”

BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE

Shari Stauch, owner of Main Street Reads

2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Moderator: Shari Stauch of Main Street Reads and her featured authors:

Henry G. Brinton of “City of Peace: A Novel

Julie Rooney of “Till Health Us Do Part”

Scott Boyers of “Bobby Ether and The Jade Academy”

Ruthie Landis of “Beyond the Book Club”

Pam Siegel and Nancy Zinberg of “Grandparenting: Renew, Relive, Rejoice”

Kathleen Varn of “Gardenia Duty”

BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE

3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Moderators: Kathy L. Murphy and Reavis Wortham

Kathi Appelt of “Max Attacks” and “Angel Thieves”

Johnnie Bernhard of “Sisters of the Undertow”

Kathryn Casey of “The Buried: A Mystery”

Sarah Dahmen of “Tinsmith 1865”

R. J. Lee a.k.a. Robert Kuhnele of “Grand Slam Murders”

Marjorie Herrera Lewis of “When the Men Were Gone”

Michael Farris Smith of “The Fighter” and “Blackwood: A Novel”

BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
4:30 p.m. Closing remarks by KATHY L. MURPHY and REAVIS WORTHAM
Last chance to purchase books and visit our vendors for the day at our VENDOR/BOOKSTORE ROOM.

FRIDAY EVENING
7:00 p.m. AUTHORS ONLY DINNER for they will be the Authors who will be waiting tables all dressed as LUMBERJACKS!

8:00p.m. AUTHOR DINNER catering by Award Winning Joseph’s Riverport BBQ, the Official caterer of The Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs.

Pulpwood Queen Art Fashion Show featuring our Authors and Queens as our models! You can order any of The Pulpwood Queen art inspired fashions at www.ShopVida.com/collections/thepulpwoodqueen now as they do take some time to arrive.  Each one is of a kind that is created especially for you as you order. Email me your order at thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com and wear your Pulpwood Queen Fashion to our event and you will be entered into a drawing for a FREE COMPLIMENTARY PACKAGE to our 21st Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend. Hope you WIN!

8:00 p.m. All authors will be introduced!
“The Pulpwood Queens’ Celebrate 20 Years”:
Moderator: Editor, Susan Cushman, and Jonathan Haupt

Introduction by Pulpwood Queen founder Kathy L. Murphy, publisher, Melissa Coleman Carrigee, Foreward author, Robert Hicks, Afterward author, Jonathan Haupt, and contributing authors, Claire Fullerton, Connor Judson Garrett, former Lt. Colonel Terry Pursell, and River Jordan. All authors present that contributed to the book will go to autograph tables to sign your book or books after the event!

SATURDAY MORNING
The Jefferson Visitor’s and Convention Center
8:00 a.m. REGISTRATION
9:00 a.m. KATHY L. MURPHY and REAVIS WORTHAM, are back as your hosts!

 

9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. KEYNOTE SPEAKER New York Times Bestselling Author Cassandra King Conroy of “Tell Me A Story: My Life with Pat Conroy”

BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE

Author, Kacey Kowars

9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Moderator: Kacey Kowars of “Another Celebration of Words: Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke, Andre DuBus and Son, and Jeannette Walls”, Introduction by Kathy L. Murphy
Vol. II”

Rebecca Dwight Bruff of “Trouble The Water: A Novel”

Michelle Cox of “A Veil Removed: A Henrietta and Inspector Howell Novel”

Susan Cushman of “Friends of the Library”

Julie Kibler of “Home of Erring and Outcast Girls”

Amanda McTigue of “Going to Solace”

BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE

Author and Shreveport Times Columnist, Judy Christie

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Jesse Allen Wise Garden Club Fundraiser Luncheon (separate ticket, call The Excelsior Hotel at 903-665-2513) Open to the public and cut-off date is Monday, January 13th, 2020

Leader of The Pulpwood Queens of Eureka, Kansas, Heidi Surber Teichgraeber

Entertainment will be a Book and Vintage Fashion Show featuring Keynote Author, Judy Christie of “Before and After” written with Lisa Wingate, and Pulpwood Queen Heidi Surber Teichgraeber of our Eureka, Kansas chapter with our authors and Pulpwood Queens as her models.

1:15 pm to 2:00 p.m.

Moderator: Julie Perkins Cantrell of “Crescendo”

Karen Abbott of “The Ghosts of Eden Park”

Tamra Bolton of “A Blessed Life: One World War II Seabee’s Story”

Juliette Kobani Haaglund of her latest cookbook to be announced

Jess Montgomery of “The Widows: A Novel”

Barbara Linn Probst of “Queen of the Owls”

BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE

Authors, Suzanne Hudson of “A Shoeburning Manifesto” by R.P. Saffire, Introduction by Suzanne Hudson and Joe Formichella of “Waffle House Rules”

2:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Moderators: Suzanne Hudson and Joe Formichella

Connor Judson Garrett of “Falling Up In the City of Angels”

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, Edward Humes of “The True Story of the Murder and Crime That Wasn’t”.

Jennifer Mueller of “Stockade Bay” and “Killer of Cimarron Social Club”

Janet Oakley of Hilo Bay Mystery Collection: “Coconut Island”, “Volcano House” and “Hilina Pali”

BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE

Kathy L. Murphy, Founder of The Pulpwood Queen Book Club Reading Nation

3:15 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Closing Speaker Panel:

Moderator, Kathy L. Murphy and Reavis Wortham

Stephanie Chance of “Mamma Mia” and her newest sequel “Mamma Mia! Sinners, Saints, and Escapades”

Claire Fullerton of “Mourning Dove & “Little Tea”

Kim Harwanko of “Novel Women” by Between Friends Book Club

Pamela Fagan Hutchins of “Live Wire”, the first in a trilogy and also the Host of Wine, Women, and Writing

Judithe Little of “The Chanel Sisters”

Shellie Rushing Tomlinson of “Finding Deep and Wide”

BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE AND LAST BOOK SIGNING OF THE DAY!

4:15 p.m. 
Awards Presentation for the following:
Pulpwood Queen Bonus Book of the Year
Pulpwood Queen Book of the Year 
KATHY L. MURPHY to present The KAT AWARDS!
Special Presentation: THE DOUG MARLETTE AWARD presented to an individual for the Lifetime Achievement of Promoting Literacy.

Silent Auction winners announced. Each author will be present to present each winner of the highest bid his or her signed personal item. Be prepared to pick up and pay at this time with cash or check, payable to The Pat Conroy Literary Center as you pick up your winning bid item!
Final remarks from KATHY L. MURPHY & REAVIS WORTHAM as we announce the theme for our next 2021 year’s event and conclude our weekend’s presentation of AUTHORS!
VENDOR/BOOKSTORE Room Closes at a half an hour after the last panel.
Shop the streets of Jefferson, dine in their fantabulous eateries, and prepare for an evening of magic! We are all going to the “GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR” BALL!

Adam and Mark Green as seen with the author, Robert Hicks

Musical artist Brooklyn Bradley LeFleur.

SATURDAY EVENING: The Jefferson Tourism & Visitors Convention Center
8:00 P.M. Master of Ceremonies Adam and Mark Green with Brooklyn Bradley LeFleur and Latonia D. Davis performing!

GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR” TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT “ themed BALL!

Come dressed as your favorite TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT BIG HAIR character, your favorite author or book character and compete for MS “HAIR” BALL QUEEN, the higher the hair the more you may WIN and TIMBER KING! It’s a Black Tie Affair! 

D.J for the best dance music EVER!

20^th Anniversary Cake and Champagne Punch Bar will be served for a 20th Anniversary Toast but also B.Y.O.B with setups provided. 

Have your cameras ready!
All information in the program could be subject to change due to circumstances beyond our control.
All memberships, tickets, and packages are NON- REFUNDABLE and FINAL.
Our Official hashtag is #PQGirlfriendWeekend for social media posts.
For our Official website: www.thepulpwoodqueens.com!