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 …
Updates from The Pulpwood Queen on Author/Designer, Phebe Phillips and Mac Hargrove AND MORE BREAKING NEWS!
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 …
The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara Wearing , Book Sharing Guide to Life NEW Edition!
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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What Makes The Pulpwood Queen Tick, Part I!
Entrance to Kathy L. Murphy's Little Cabin in the Woods, Murphy's Law and Art Studio! Dear Readers, What in the world makes the Pulpwood Queen bound out of bed in the morning! What makes her tick, you might ask? After one semester of graduating from college and trying to figure out exactly that, I think I finally figured it out. It is now my time to do what I want to do, period. All our lives we work and work hard to get ahead, to earn what we think we need to purchase, what we think …
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The Pulpwood Queen Welcomes Guest Blogger, Author Peter Golden!
Dear Readers, My MacBook Air may be on its last leg so posting this series of blogs by Pulpwood Queen Book Club Author Peter Golden before it totally crashes. Peter was brought to my attention by Shelf Awareness Guru Robert Gray. I read his columns volraciously and he mentioned Peter and his first book. I read it and had found a NEW author to bring to our fold and now this is his third book that I have selected as an Official Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys read by Peter Golden! Thanks, …
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The Pulpwood Queen Speaks to Silver Leos Writers Guild at Texas A & M in Commerce, Texas!
Yesterday, Tiajuana Anderson Neel and I headed to Texas A & M University in Commerce, Texas to speak to the Silver Leos Writers Guild invited by Sharon Lamkin Feldt. This past Saturday they had done a fundraiser for my dear friend the late great Dr. Fred Tarpley who amongst many things wrote one of the best books on Jefferson, Texas out there. Featured at that conference were Pulpwood Queen Book Club Authors, Bobbi Kornblit and Reavis Wortham, who will be my co-host at the next …
The Pulpwood Queen Launches Her New Career as an Artist!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club members and dear, dear friends and encouragers everywhere! Just like the Buddy Holly "Everyday", ( that was one of my father's favorites), "Everyday", I have had a series of ups and downs in my life.. My down being having to start over my life again in my late 50's. I got kicked to the curb my friends. But I just brushed off my bruised ego and jumped back on the horse to ride, ride, ride and went back to college at 59. My up was …
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The Pulpwood Queen Says “Let me be like Scout”, from “To Kill a Mockingbird”!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club members and readers everywhere, Life is hard. I woke up this morning thinking about the state of affairs of the world today. Time to get real. Everything that I have learned come from a lifetime of reading books. I was a pretty naive kid, small-town Kansas born and raised. I had no street smarts, shy, introverted, I escaped into books when things got really scary. I am the same way now in many ways. I have just learned to mask my fears …
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The Pulpwood Queen Announces NEW Co-Host for Girlfriend Weekend 2019, Author, REAVIS Z. WORTHAM!
Dear Readers! I am as pleased as punch to officially announce that for 2019 Girlfriend Weekend, Author, Reavis Z. Wortham will be not only my Co-Host but a Keynote Speaker for Girlfriend Weekend. With our theme being HOW THE WEST WAS WON, Reavis Z. Wortham just fit the bill and the hat too I might add to a T! Our dear Jamie Ford is been given a break as co-host as recuperating from his amazing book tour and the fact that his wife Leesha Ford is running for office in Montana! In keeping …
The Pulpwood Queen Asks,”Do You Need An Editor?”
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Members, Readers, Writers, Authors, Book Lovers Everywhere! When it comes to writing everybody needs a good editor, so when I heard this breaking news from Pulpwood Queen Author, Julie Perkins Cantrell, winner of a Crossover Pulpwood Queen Book of the Year, multiple Christy Award winner, my heart began to sing! So shouting from the rooftops, here is one that I can guarantee will take to where you need to be in the publishing world. There is …
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The Pulpwood Queen Post Highlights of our Bohemian Rhapsody Girlfriend Weekend 2018!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guy Book Club members, our Authors, and book lovers everywhere! Madeleine Alexandrite Patrick and her momster, Kathy L. Murphy! Favorite photo of the weekend, Author, John Warley as in "Butterflies are Free"! The #1 Highlight of Girlfriend Weekend was after tallying the Author Silent Auction items we raised $2,140.00 with ALL proceeds to go to The Pat Conroy Literary Center. A big shout to Author, John Warley, a personal friend of Pat Conroy for …
The Pulpwood Queen Announces Our Pulpwood Queen Books of the Year and more Awards!
Dear Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, Book Clubs, and Booklovers everywhere! PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Kathy L. Murphy Email: thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com January 15, 2018 Nacogdoches, Texas - The Pulpwood Queen is pleased to announce the following 2017 Pulpwood Queen Awards and for Books of the Year! Pulpwood Queen Book of the Year - "One Good Mama Bone" by Brenda McClain Author, Brenda McClain at the Friday night Author Dinner ready to wait the tables …
The Pulpwood Queen On The Road Again to our 18th Annual Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Members, our Authors, Readers, and Book Lovers Everywhere! Almost packed up to travel to my annual Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend but do note, I live in a gated community with SECURITY! Tarzan one of my pets keeps guard, as well as, my house sitters. Though the only thing I have of value at my house is all my books, just wanted to let any potential criminal know, I am well protected at home. Did I mention bear traps throughout my …
The Pulpwood Queen Explains the BIG PICTURE on our Annual Girlfriend Weekend 2018!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Members, our Authors, all Book Lovers and those planning on attending our Annual book club convention that we call GIRLFRIEND WEEKEND! Let's talk about Girlfriend Weekend. What is it? For one weekend a year, always Martin Luther King Weekend as I too have a big dream, I invite in first all the authors of the books we have read, or are reading, or will be reading for 2018. You see I created this book club so I could discuss books, the books …
The Pulpwood Queen Talks About Playing Dress Up!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Members and Book Lovers Everywhere! Being a grown-up is hard, in fact, sometimes it is practically no fun at all. You have a job, you go to work and you have to work to get the pay to pay for all the every mounting bill. There is no recess in adult life unless you save and save them maybe you can get a weekend off to do something that perhaps is fun! Welcome to Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend! When I was a child I got lost in books. …
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The Pulpwood Queen Offers a Special Thanks to Simon & Schuster Publishers!
Dear Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, Girlfriend Weekend Attendees! The Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, and I would personally like to acknowledge and thank, Simon & Schuster Publishers for sending in 40 boxes of advance gallerys and books to give away to all the attendees of my annual book club convention we call Girlfriend Weekend. They also took out a full-page ad in my Girlfriend Weekend 2018 program this year. There is nothing more that I love to do than share great authors, their …
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The Pulpwood Queen Speaks of her favorite charity, The Pat Conroy Literacy Center!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club members and book lovers everywhere! You know I said in my first book, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" that books saved me. They did, as they gave me an escape and a positive addition to improving my life. I found myself through reading. The first book that my 4th-grade teacher personally handed me as she thought I would relate to the character was "Honestly, Katie John" by Mary Calhoun and I devoured that …
The Pulpwood Queen Asks “Do You Believe in Magic?”
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guy Book Club Members and the Arts Lovers Everywhere! Do you believe in magic? I do. I believe in magic, in fairy tales, in happy endings, and in authors, books, literacy, reading, and the arts. Some perhaps find fault in my belief that we must never lose the magic of the wonder of a child. I sometimes feel that I go back and forth between being Peter Pan to Tinkerbell to Wendy and even to the Lost Boys but I have created my own magical world in which I …
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The Pulpwood Queen has Change Ups for Lineup on Girlfriend Weekend 2018!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Members! When I was small_ Tamra Bolton, Marc Bolton_ 9781979763295_ Amazon.com_ Books As always, at the very last minute, here come cancellations due to circumstances out of my control. Two authors have had to cancel, Johnathan Barrett and Ann Hood but the GOOD NEWS is I have two outstanding authors that are coming, Tamra Bolton of "When We Were Small" on Kindle at Amazon and Romalyn Tilghman of "To The Stars Through Difficulties". To say …
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The Pulpwood Queens LOVES the story behind the stories! Read All About IT!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guy Book Club Members and Readers Everywhere! Scott Wilbanks is one of our Pulpwood Queen Book Club Authors. I am continually amazed by the other lives that they have led or are leading so that is why I created the Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend annual book club convention. This is the ONLY festival that I know of in the world where you actually hang out and participate with the authors of books we are reading to get to know them better. We learn the story …
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The Pulpwood Queen Welcomes Guest Blogger, Clea Simon speaking on Holiday Movies!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guy Book Club members and Book and Film Buffs! Today's guest blog is from Pulpwood Queen Author, Clea Simon and her take on Holiday Movies. I am such an odd duck as I watch all the regular like "It's a Wonderful Life", "The Bishop's Wife" then I like to watch "Olive, the Other Reindeer" and "Nightmare Before Christmas", and Wes Anderson films like "Fantastic Mr. Fox" with my now grown children. But year after year I go back to "Elizabethtown", …
The Pulpwood Queen Announces Guest Blogger, Patricia V. Davis of Books, Bubbles, and Pulpwood Queens!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club members and readers everywhere! First my BIG NEWS! Thrilled to find a contract in my mailbox this morning as my story of "My HERO" was accepted by The University of Georgia Press for a NEW anthology edited by Nicole Seitz tentatively titled, OUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES: WRITERS REMEMBER PAT CONROY! You can guarantee this will be an OFFICIAL Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Selection. Cannot wait to read all the other stories from of some …
The Pulpwood Queen FINALY Graduates from College, TONIGHT!
Dear Pulpwood Queen and Timber Guys Book Club Members, Family, and Friends! The biggest day of my life has arrived. The Pulpwood Queen is FINALLY graduating from college! What began at the age of 17 in 1974 when I began my college studies at Kansas State University continued with further studies at Emporia State University, Grossmont College, Panola College, Texarkana College, Texas A & M University, ends decades later on December 15, 2017 as I walk the stage to receive my …
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The Pulpwood Queen Shares Big News!
Dear Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, and readers everywhere! So my friend and studio mate Abigal Harrison gave me one of her ceramic artworks. I had it on the counter a I was making my Coffee, not the importance of the capital letter then decided to try it this morning as a Coffee cup! It fits my hand perfectly! This is me sharing BIG NEWS! Coffee is important and the perfect Coffee cup, wow, I am having a moment! Thanks, Abbie! Next, I am now advertising authors books on my blogs. …
The Pulpwood Queen Welcomes Guest Blogger, Author, Laurel Davis Huber of “The Velveteen Daughter”!
Dear Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, book lovers and readers everywhere! Welcome Official future Pulpwood Queen Book Club Author, Laurel Huber Davis of "The Velveteen Daughter" who will be featured at our up and coming annual convention that we call Girlfriend Weekend, January 11 - 14, 2018 at The Fredonia Hotel & Convention Center in historic Nacogdoches, Texas! "The Velveteen Rabbit" is one of my all-time favorite reads as a child, as an adult and one that I loved to share with my …
The Pulpwood Queen Shares a Message from One of our Authors, Caitlin Hamilton Summie!
Dear Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, our Authors, and book lovers everywhere, Here is a blog post from a NEW Pulpwood Queen Author, Caitlin Hamilton Summie who will be one of our featured authors at our annual book club convention which we call Girlfriend Weekend. For membership and packages go to www.thepulpwoodqueens.com and check out all the caliber of authors coming from all over the country and event out of the country! This is one of the biggest years I have ever done and all while …
The Pulpwood Queen Welcome Guest Blogger/ Author Judithe Little!
Do You Like Champagne? I do! Champagne plays a part in my historical novel Wickwythe Hall. It’s the connection between my fictional character, Reid Carr, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. In the novel, Reid Carr is a representative of French champagne house Pol Roger. In real life, Pol Roger was Churchill’s favorite champagne. Voilà! Fact meets fiction. Churchill’s love of libations is well documented. He began each day with whiskey and soda or …
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The Pulpwood Queens shares The Pat Conroy Literacy Festival!
Attention Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, our authors, and book lovers everywhere! For those that know me, know that I worshipped author, Pat Conroy. His books made me realize that I was not alone and to be able to call him my friend, was my greatest joy. I will miss him forever. But in the meantime, he lives on at the PAT CONROY LITERARY FESTIVAL! If you ever want to attend something besides Girlfriend Weekend, this is it! So many of our Pulpwood Queen Book Club authors …
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The Pulpwood Queen has a Royal Request!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys! Today's blog is one of housekeeping communication. Some requests so we can get better at communication as we are getting SO BIG! Never in a million years would I have dreamed we are headed to 1,000 chapters of the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs. We are getting NEW memberships everyday so onward and upward! My Want List: I need a photo of each chapter sent to me at thepulpwoodqueen.com to build an album to have on-site at Girlfriend …
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