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 twenty years as the world’s largest meeting-and-discussing bookclub, with over 750 local clubs internationally. The fact that many of these women also wear tiaras, leopard prints, and bright pink to their meetings gives us a peek into their exuberant love for life, which is reflected in their love for books and each other. This collection of essays by authors, book club members, and supporters of the Queens, is a love letter to the founder and director, Kathy L. Murphy, and an ode to the written word and the place that literature and reading play in all of our lives.
Dedication to Tiajuana Andersson Neel – Kathy L. Murphy
Introduction – Kathy L. Murphy
Foreward: Robert Hicks
Contributing Writers and Authors are:
Christa Allen
Johnnie Bernhard
Tamra Bolton
Lea Anne Brandon
Missy Buchanan
Julie Cantrell
Tracy Lea Carnes
Kathryrn Casey
Stephanie Chance
Judy Christie
Tim Conroy
Christopher Cook
Michelle Cox
Susan Cushman
Patricia V. Davis
Sarah Dahman
Jessica Brooks Dougherty
Sharon Feldt
Jamie Ford
Joe Formichella
Claire Fullerton
Connor Garrett
Echo Montgomery Garrett
Peter Golden
Mark Green
Jim Grimsley
Jennie Helderman
Mary Ann Henry
Kathy Hepinstall and Becky Hepinstall
Betty Herndon
Laurel Davis Huber
Suzanne Hudson
Alexandra Jenkins
River Jordan
Cassandra King
Bobbi Kornblit
Betty Koval
Kasey Kowars
Caroline Leavitt
Marjorie Herrera Lewis
Judithe Little
Bren McLain
Fletcher Hale
Laura Lane McNeal
Susan Marquez
Michael Morris
Jennifer Mueller
Tiajuana Anderson Neel
Janet Oakley
P. Adrianne Pamplin
Susan Peterson
Gregory Erich Phillips
Sandra Phillips
Rickey E. Pittman
Terry Pursell
Alyson Richmond
Paul Roberson
Rebecca Rosenberg
Clare Sera
Brownie Shott and Jonni Webb
Shari Stauch
Kathryn Taylor
Heidi Surber Teichgraeber
Helen Thompson
Jo Anne Tidwell
Carolyn Turgeon
Barbara Claypole White
Reavis Wortham
Afterword: Jonathan Haupt
“The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years” will be The Pulpwood Queens Official January 2020 Pulpwood Queen Book Club Selection. You can read all about The Pulpwood Queens, how to join their book club and attend their Girlfriend Weekend at www.thepulpwoodqueens.com.
“Kathy Murphy and her Pulpwood Queens are a source of much-need inspiration and big-heartedness in the world of books and book clubs. The here are as wise as they are entertaining, a testament to living large and joyfully in a sisterhood of storytelling.” —Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife and Love and Rain.
“Part book club meeting, part costume party, part come-as-you-are, the Pulpwood Queens annual Girlfriend Weekend is an extravaganza none who’ve ever attended will forget. This 20th anniversary commemorative book is like Girlfriend Weekend itself—a warm, wise, tender celebration of friends, reading, and all the ways books bring us together.” —Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling Author of Before We Were Yours
“The Pulpwood Queens is one of those cultural phenomena that you have to participate in to completely understand. But this book does the next best thing. Put on some pink and enjoy.”—Jamie Ford, New York Times Bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
“In this collection you can be a part of the Pulpwood Queens’ energy and friendship, their unabashed love for the written word, and the full glory of a party to celebrate it all. Come along, join me and meet some of my friends in this collection of essays about the indomitable Pulpwood Queens.”—Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of fourteen novels, including Becoming Mrs. Lewis – The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis, and a contemporary novel, The Favorite Daughter
For more information on this book and to pre-order your copies contact Melissa Carrigee of Brother Mockingbird at melissabrothermockingbird.org, website www.brothermockingbird.org
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