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 …
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 Queen to be be featured in the book, “OUR PRINCE OF SCRIBES!
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!”
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 …
The Pulpwood Queen Introduces You to Mark, my New GLAMPER!
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!
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 …
The Pulpwood Queen Yesterday Had a “Thelma and Louise” Moment!
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 a 2019 Girlfriend Weekend Giveaway!
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!
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!
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 Shares the latest on Girlfriend Weekend 2019!
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 Back Home Sweet Home at Murphy’s Law!
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!
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 …
The Pulpwood Queen Headed to Westport, Connecticut on “Warrior Goddess” Art and Fashion Book Tour!
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 …
The Pulpwood Queen Stops on Tour to Visit The Pulpwood Queen of Bristol, Virginia!
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 …
The Pulpwood Queen Arrived in Memphis/Collier!ville, Tennessee to Visit Artist, Alisa Free!
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 …
The Pulpwood Queen Hits the Road on her “Warrior Goddess” Pop-Up Art & Fashion Book Tour!
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 …
The Pulpwood Queen “Warrior Goddess” Pop-Up Art and Fashion Show Book Tour!
Dear Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys Book Club members, Booklovers, Art lovers, and my dear, dear friends and supporters! JUNE is going to be a big month of author events and more! Go to www.shopvida.com/collections/thepulpwoodqueen June 11th, Pulpwood Queen Author, Romalyn Tilghman will be hosted by The Pulpwood Queens of East Texas for an event at the Jefferson, Carnegie Library. Mount Pleasant Public Library Mt. Pleasant, Texas June 12 6:30 pm June …
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The Pulpwood Queen Remembers Jane Ryder!
Designer, Jane Ryder Dear Readers, The first thing that I viewed this morning was an alcohol ink and acrylic painting I am working on that I have titled "Me Tarzan, You Jane". So I was taught in college that you create your own art and let the viewer decide what they see. But I was talking to Tiajuana Neel Anderson last night and she inquired about the green blob, was it a butterfly on top of my "Mona Lisa" like head. "Yes, Tiajuana, it's a butterfly". I was told in college …
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The Pulpwood Queen Has a Scathingly Brilliant Idea!
Attention Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club member, Author, and all my book-loving friends! When I was a kid I loved Haley Mills, you remember the actress in "Pollyanna", and the original "The Parent Trap"? I grew up on Hayley Mills movies, shoot I wanted to be her. She was brave, spoke her mind, and fearless. But my all time favorite movie was "The Trouble with Angels". You see Hayley was a handful so her parents sent her off to a convent to train to become a nun. Starring …
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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 Queens Talks of AHA Moments!
Today's blog I wish to discuss those AHA moments. That was a new phrase for me back years and years ago when I first began writing "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" published by Grand Central Publishing My literary agent, Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff and Associates in New Yor, who gave me the title for my book on my memoir on how books saved me and why on was on a mission to get everybody reading, asked me to write of AHA moments when writing my book. "What is …
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The Pulpwood Queen Shares her Art as Portals Into Your Own Imaginations To Make NEW Discoveries!
Dear Readers and Art Lovers! Kathy L. Murphy P.O. Box 1220 Hawkins, Texas 75765 – 1220 thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com Artist Statement A chimerical landscape is created not of what has been seen but of what is in one’s mind. My desire is for the viewer to escape the real world and be transported and transformed to other worlds using their own life’s experiences, their own imaginations, and their own stories. Alcohol and India ink paintings create an atmosphere for the …
ATTENTION! The Pulpwood Queen Announces a Really Big Contest, The Pulpwood Queen and Timber Guy Roundup to Girlfriend Weekend 2019!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs Members and readers everywhere! My trusty sidekick, Tiajuana Anderson Neel and I, think The Lone Ranger and Tonto are ready to ride and blaze a trail for literacy. We both have Native American roots, so not sure which is Tonto or The Lone Ranger but we believe so much in the power of attending our annual Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend HOW THE WEST WAS WON Reading Roundup that we have come up with the ultimate contest. From now until …
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 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 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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