Dear Readers, A question was posed to me this morning of which I was tagged by my friend Kristen Chambers as follows. "Reading friends, what literary characters come to mind when asked which one(s) do you love? And which do you loathe? I don’t mean how well or how poorly written the characters are. I’m talking about the ones who make your heart swell, who you’d admire if they were to come to life, who you’d want for a neighbor, best friend or mate; and the ones who are so despicable …
The Pulpwood Queen “Feather Your Nest” Blog Coming Soon!
I had to share this as working on a NEW monthly blog that I will be posting on our Pulpwood Queen Book Club Member and Author's homes at www.thepulpwoodqueens.com blog page. As I have been selling my paintings, I have been in awe of the homes that my artworks are going into for their new homes. Who wants to see some incredible homes? Home is where we "feather our nest" with our libraries, our collections, and featured artworks all surrounded by the things we love. …
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The Pulpwood Queen Shares an Outstanding Art Teacher Story!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2qOOqgP8pw&vl=en Dear Readers, "Like stars on earth" every child is special, I love this phrase as so very true. Most of my adult life I have worked with children whether as Sunday School teacher, Youth Group leader, Youth choir director, Girl Scouts, or doing story times and events when I was Children's Manager and Buyer for an independent bookstore. I have won twice, from the National Women's Book Council, the Lucile Michele Pannell Award for …
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The Pulpwood Queen on her Forever Quest for the NEXT BEST READ!
Dear Readers! During this time of social distancing during the Covid - 19 global pandemic I have been on a mission to read, write, paint, create, feather my nest, and to educate, enlighten, and entertain myself to keep me fully engaged in turning a negative into a positive. I have learned how to be alone with myself. A daunting task because I am no easy person to be with, I can't sit still. I need work, good work to keep me busy and have found it so never been more productive in my …
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The Pulpwood Queen Wants You to Watch This Film, “Billu”!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjT_s3m6t2Y&list=PLJ7Ozx-BB0y0EqP8TJNx3OGQG3L7AdN5U&index=20&t=0s&app=desktop Dear Readers, I watched this film some time ago and shortly after one of it's stars, Irrfan Khan, died suddenly and I have been mourning ever since. You may recognize him from the film, "Slumdog Millionaire" but every role he has played is sheer gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_agFp1PMnM I want you all to watch this film either on youtube.com or …
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The Pulpwood Queen Presents Heidi Surber Teichgraeber!
Dear Readers! This is the first of a series of videos that we have done this week . Facebook has made some changes so trying to figure out the new way to share so hope this works! https://www.facebook.com/stefania.chance/videos/10219378264469650 Kathy L. Murphy Artist/Author/Founder of the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs and Author of "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" P.O. Box 1220 Hawkins, Texas 75765 - …
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The Pulpwood Queen Shares her Valentine Writing Room!
Pulpwood Queen Book Club Author, Mary Ann Henry wanted to know where I wrote at home and this is my home office in all it’s creative chaotic glory! This is where I email you, send my blog posts, and work on my three books in progress! All these cherry reds to rose pinks get me fired up. Create the space that get your creative juices flowing! This is my Valentine Writing Room and my life’s blood pouring out on the page word by word to you! This is my Valentine year …
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The Pulpwood Queen Wants to Connect Through the Sharing of Stories!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loGt03Bodo0&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0-YAHZH7xZ4Vo8tCeLY8IeUCV2I-OOoU_VBiVirjY2BF7k0WXFDc1RFl4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhvoF2E7tG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ABS5WCnZg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlqXBBceJ2k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATNEB6X110E&t=14s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ9fQpwTQMk&t=10s …
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The Pulpwood Queen Welcomes All New Authors and Members To Our Book Club!
Dear Readers, During this Coronavirus pandemic we have had a considerable rise in New Pulpwood Book Club Members and those joining all my Facebook pages including Breathless Bubbles & Books. Let me begin with our story so we can all be on the same page on exactly what is The Pulpwood Queens and yes, Timber Guys Book Clubs, the largest "meeting and discussing" book club in the world. Our motto is "where Tiaras (or Crowns) are mandatory and reading our good books is the ONLY RULE." …
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The Pulpwood Queen Has Breaking News Regarding 2022 Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend!
BREAKING NEWS! The Pulpwood Queens Book Club annual convention to restart January 2022 on Martin Luther King Weekend has now partnered with The Pat Conroy Literary Center and The Dolly Parton Imagination Library. Each will have their own panel and so very, very excited. You can check out both their websites at www.patconroyliterarycenter.org Jonathan Haupt, The Executive Director of The Pat Conroy Literary …
The Pulpwood Queen Announces January 2021 Official Pulpwood Queen Book Club Selections!
https://www.facebook.com/IamSRK/photos/a.745346912158241/1379643965395196/?type=3&theater With every visionary I have found that all the success they have in this life they earned it through their hard, hard work. Take the responsibility to be what you want to see and earn it. Work hard and read. It's all about the story. So for 2021, I, as the founder of The Pulpwood Queen International Book Club will be selecting a book each of the 12 months as a book club selection but also to be …
The Pulpwood Queen in Planning Stages of Going more DIVERSE and GLOBAL!
Dear Readers, Besides all I do, this week's focus is on global literacy. I am already hard at work to get more people on board our Pulpwood Queen Book Club Reading Nation and to find more books of diversity of from writers and authors around the world. This coming year's theme is "A Whole New World" and get ready for some exciting news as we proceed into our 21st year of reading altogether as Pulpwood Queen and Timber Guy Book Club readers. To join go to …
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The Pulpwood Queen Has Breaking News!
Dear Readers, First the good news or the bad news? I'll go with the good news. Our 20th Anniversary Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend was a huge success. You know you have done good when one of your authors, and a dear one to me I might add, wrote a feature for Southern Writer's Magazine on her take on the event. Thank you Claire Fullerton and Southern Writer's Magazine! Here is the link …
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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 …
The Pulpwood Queen Shares Congratulations to our 20th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend Featured Authors!
Dear Readers, First up Songwriter/Author, Layng Martine, Jr. Big News! FORBES MAGAZINE: https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamwindsor/2019/08/19/nashville-songwriter-reflects-on-life-career--writing-elvis-presleys-last-single/#30cf57c434c5 THE GREENWICH SENTINEL (Greenwich, CT) https://www.greenwichsentinel.com/2019/07/11/column-a-glorious-summer-read/ WRITER’S DIGEST 27TH ANNUAL SELF-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARDS Congratulates Layng Martine Jr. on being awarded Honorable …
The Pulpwood Queen Talks About the Benefits of Traveling for Literary Adventures!
Dear Readers, Just back from a whirlwind of literary adventure in California and as I listen to the rainfall, drinking from my new Queen Mary mug of dark black coffee now fully rested from my trip, I am reflecting on the experiences and wonderful memories of travel. You see my best childhood friend, Heidi Surber Teichgraeber and I traveled first to Long Beach to attend Patricia V. Davis's book launch event aboard the Queen Mary. All the stars aligned to do this and we were given such a …
The Pulpwood Queen Shares Things to Know Before Boarding The Queen Mary!
BOOKS, FOOD, AND LIBRARY LOVE AT THE RMS QUEEN MARY’S SECRET SPICE CAFE DINNER AND TOUR NOVEMBER 2 @ 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM FacebookTwitterTumblrPinterestCopy LinkShare What’s better than a Day of the Dead book event that offers gourmet dining, and takes place on an 85-year-old, Art Deco, haunted ship? How about one that offers all that, and raises money for a new library? This fall, the RMS Queen Mary will debut a spectacular event for literature and library lovers, history …
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The Pulpwood Queen Heads to Patricia V. Davis Event Aboard The Queen Mary!
ATTENTION PULPWOOD QUEEN BOOK CLUB MEMBERS! Just arrived back home after a whirlwind of road warrior driving to my 45th Class Reunion with my sister, Karen Penner to driving to North Dallas to visit my daughter, Helaina with my new grandson. He was trying out the New Amish child's rocker my cousin, Cindy Saunders gave him! Back home last night so this exciting news just in from Pulpwood Queen Author, Patricia V. Davis! Pulpwood Queens you just have to join me, Heidi Surber …
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The Pulpwood Queen Travels to Eureka, Kansas for her 45th Eureka Tornado, Class of 74 Reunion!
Dear Readers! Yes, the is me and my best friend back in the days of wearing our royal blue pep club uniforms with bobby socks and red velvet tennis shoes. We wore those uniforms sometimes three times a week as we never missed a sports event, we were the PEP CLUB! Heidi Surber Teichgraeber and I have known each other since the 2nd grade when her family moved on to our block in Eureka, Kansas. Our back yards backed into each other so we were all destined to meet the three Surber …
The Pulpwood Queen Travels to NYC for Cinderella to CEO Awards as a Nominee!
Dear Readers! It would take me some time to tell you the full story of my nomination for Cinderella to CEO Awards held this past week in NYC but here are the highlights! And for all the Getty Image photos of the event go to https://assignments.gettyimages.com/v2/share/f4eeaa9a-a666-424d-9241-6f504fbd3517 Last my list of thank yous to those who made this trip possible and for making this one of the highlights of my life! To Pulpwood Queen Author, Claire Fullerton for nominating me …
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The Pulpwood Queen Announces “The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 year’s Pre-order Date”!
Greetings from The Pulpwood Queen! So happy to announce that August 1st will be the laydown date to pre-order our book, "The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years" edited by Susan Cushman, Dedicated To Tiajuana Anderson Neel with Foreward by Kathy L. Murphy, Introduction by Robert Hicks, Afterword by Jonathan Haupt, cover by Nicole Seitz and published by Brother Mockingbird Publishing. All these came together as first Claire Fullerton wrote a feature for Southern Writer's magazine blog on her …
Update on Summer into Fall Pulpwood Queen Calendar of Events!
Here is the updated now Pulpwood Queen Calendar of Events going into Fall 2019! Finalists Named in Cinderella to CEO Awards August 8, 2019 Awards Luncheon Honors Women Who Transform, Inspire & Empower July 1, 2019 - New York, NY - The Cinderella to CEO Awards, to be held Thursday, August 8 in New York City, will highlight 36 award finalists and 200+ nominees who have inspiring, modern, tales of transformation, changing the world for the better. Nine category winners, to be chosen …
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The Pulpwood Queen Announces New Book COVER REVEAL!
Press Release for Immediate Release: July 12, 2020 Today we are announcing the cover reveal of our latest book, The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years! edited by Susan Cushman, Introduction by Kathy L. Murphy, Foreward by Robert Hicks, Afterword by Jonathan Haupt, Executive Director of The Pat Conroy Literary Center, Cover by Artist/Author, Nicole Seitz, and published by Brother Mockingbird. In 2020, the Pulpwood Queens---and their male counterparts, the Timber Guys---are celebrating …
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20th Anniversary Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend Book Club Convention Working Program!
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 …
The Pulpwood Queen New Calendar of Events Summer 2019!
Attention Art Lovers and Blooming Artists! I will be featured on stage at Made in the Shades Artisan Show the second Saturday of June, the 8th. Bringing my Alcohol Ink Paintings, book, "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" and art inspired fashions. 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. sign up for a Beginning Alcohol Ink Workshop where you can learn without any previous artist experience the wonders of this fascinating, vibrant and colorful medium. $50 for the class and …
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The Pulpwood Queen Announces Calendar of Spring Into Summer Events!
Attention Art lovers, Pulpwood Queens, Authors, and my friends on Social Media. Here are my up and coming events of The Pulpwood Queen. Come welcome Kathy L. Murphy, The Pulpwood Queen to Fairhope, Alabama! Wednesday, May 15th Arrive for Joe’s homemade pizza and stay the night at WHBThursday, May 16th 10:00 am WBAF/downtown Fairhope After radio interview Meet with Maggie at the condo accommodations ☺ Page & Palette's Book Cellar Thursday, May …
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Breaking News! The Pulpwood Queen Announces Official 2019 Book Club Selections and More!
Contact: Kathy L. Murphy at email: thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 22, 2019 The Pulpwood Queens of East Texas Charter chapter Jefferson, Texas - The Pulpwood Queens are pleased to announce the following will be our Official Pulpwood Queen Book Club Selections for 2019. Our motto is "where Tiaras are mandatory and reading our good books is the ONLY RULE!" So you are to read the Book of the Month for the month and after that the Bonus Books of …
The Pulpwood Queen FINAL Press Release for 2019 Girlfriend Weekend Program!
CONTACT: Kathy L. Murphy Founder of the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Reading Nation Official and only Email: thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com (Press passes are available for any media doing a feature and to request a phone number for media interviews. ) PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 29, 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 …
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The Pulpwood Queen’s #1 New Year’s Resolution is to OWN IT!
Dear Readers, I have come to believe that I do not fit into anything of societies mores what it means to be a woman of age in this world. I feel as if I have become in a way, a lone wolf, invisible. I am not politically correct as I grew up straddled the line of having a mother who was a stay at home mom and even had my high school counselor asked me if I was going to get married out of high school? I did not want to conform, to be like my mother. I wanted the freedom to find my own path. …
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