Author Leila Meacham Leila Meacham is a writer and former teacher who lives in San Antonio, Texas. She is the author of the bestselling novels Roses, Somerset and Tumbleweeds. Dragonfly At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds - a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother …
September 2020 Bonus Books
House of Rose Rookie patrol officer Rose Brighton chases a suspect down an alley. Without warning, her vision wavers, and the lone suspect appears to divide into two men--the real suspect, frozen in time, and a shadow version with a gun. Confused by what she's just seen, but with no time to second guess it's meaning, Rose shoots the real suspect in the back. Forced to lie to detectives, she risks her job and her life to discover the shocking truth of who she really is--a witch of an …
New Pulpwood Authors – September 2020
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Solo in Salento SOLO IN SALENTO BEGINS WITH A LIE. Desperate to break out of a life haunted by a wretched past, a loss of faith, toxic relationships, a stressful management career, and a slow sink into domestication, Donna craves time away from everything and everyone, including her loving husband. So she lies, telling everyone she is traveling alone to research a novel she intends to write. While in Otranto, Donna masters the complex recycling system of a …
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Author of the Month – August 2020
Author Claire Fullerton Claire Fullerton hails from Memphis, TN. and now lives in Malibu, CA. with her husband and 3 German shepherds. She is the author of Little Tea, the August selection of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club. Claire is the author of 5-time award winning, Mourning Dove; Dancing to an Irish Reel; and A Portal in Time. Her novella, Through an Autumn Window, is included in the book, A Southern Season. Her work has appeared in Celtic Life International, Southern Writers Magazine, The …
New Pulpwood Authors – August 2020
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! I"ll Go: War, Religion, and Coming Home from Cairo to Kansas City When the Twin Towers fell, Alexs Thompson didn’t rejoin the military, he quit his classes at the University of Chicago and backpacked through Yemen and Egypt to live with Muslim fundamentalists. Eventually, he fought alongside US Special forces and Marines in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout Eastern Africa. Motivated by an unwavering commitment to live the best life possible, this is his …
August 2020 Bonus Books
Clover Blue and This I Know Set against the backdrop of a 1970s commune in Northern California, Clover Blue is a compelling, beautifully written story of a young boy’s search for identity. There are many things twelve-year-old Clover Blue isn’t sure of: his exact date of birth, his name before he was adopted into the Saffron Freedom Community, or who his first parents were. What he does know with certainty is that among this close-knit, nature-loving group, he is happy. Here, everyone is …
Meeting the Pulpwood Queen By Jax Frey
Two weird things happened in Fairhope, Alabama on August 9, 2019. One of them would change my life. The other, well, not so much—as you will see. A little background first. I wasn’t even supposed to be hanging around the Page & Palette bookstore in Fairhope that day. It’s a quirky shop that has been around for over forty years, and it not only sells books, it is also a café, an art supply store, a live music venue, and most importantly, a wine bar. I was in town to deliver my art to a …
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New Pulpwood Authors – July 2020
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! The Mermaid Mahjong Circle -- A Fairy Tale for Women A fairy tale for women, The Mermaid Mahjong Circle follows two lifelong friends and artists, Evie and Hannah, as they embark on an adventure that takes them from the present to the past and back again, thanks to a tale about a mysterious mahjong tile crafted a century ago. From the moment they discover the extraordinary tile on a beach near San Francisco, Evie and Hannah are caught up in the adventure of …
Author of the Month – July 2020
Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate Author Judy Christie has had lunch at the White House with First Lady Nancy Reagan; met Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon; and ridden across a Southern city in a hot air balloon. She’s run marathons — 26.2 miles — in Alaska and at Disney World, been chased by a monkey on a city street, fished for piranha on the Amazon, and once got a black eye playing putt-putt at the beach. She’s always up for a good story and a good adventure. And no matter …
July Bonus Books
Falling Up in The City of Angels In this raw, honest, and poetic novel, Tony reveals to the reader (and to himself) the exciting and sometimes hollow search for meaning in LA-LA land. Garrett paints a vivid portrait of millennials and relationships in the age of Tinder and friends with benefits. He takes the reader on a voyeuristic journey through his new haunts of Santa Monica, Venice Beach, and Malibu with all their quirky, shady, and wondrous characters. Often compared to:- Bright Lights, …
3 Ways to Spin Your Novel into a Series
3 Ways to Spin Your Novel into a Series So you’ve written a book — you might have even written several different books — but have you ever thought about building a series of novels that are related to one another? If you haven’t considered this yet, it could be a wonderful component of your evergreen book marketing gameplan: after all, you already have an existing readership that will buy your books (and even recommend them to others!). Now, you may be thinking that series are not very …
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Author of the Month – June 2020
Author Cassandra King CASSANDRA KING is an award-winning author of five bestselling novels and two nonfiction books, as well as numerous short stories, essays, and magazine articles. Her latest book, Tell Me A Story (William Morrow 2019), is a memoir about life with her late husband, Pat Conroy. A native of LA (Lower Cassandra King is an award-winning author of 5 bestselling novels and 2 books of non-fiction, as well as numerous articles, essays and short stories. A native of LA (Lower …
June Bonus Books
A Blessed Life: One World War II Seabee's Story A Blessed Life – One World War II Seabee’s Story is the true account of Stuart McAnally, a 96 year-old veteran, and his experiences. McAnally tells of his journey from a peaceful farming community to the blood-stained beaches of Iwo Jima and how those experiences both challenged and changed him. Told by his daughter, this intriguing read is a true-to-life account of both the Great Depression and World War II era. Filled with heart-warming and …
New Pulpwood Authors – June 2020
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Temptation Rag The world of ragtime is the backdrop for a remarkable story about the price of freedom, the longing for immortality, and the human need to find forgiveness. Seventeen-year-old May Convery, unhappy with her privileged life in turn-of-the-century New York City, dreams of becoming a poet. When she meets the poor but talented Mike Bernard, an aspiring concert pianist, she immediately falls in love. But after their secret liaison is discovered, …
Author of the Month – May 2020
Author Barbara Linn Probst BARBARA LINN PROBST is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, living on an historic dirt road in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her debut novel QUEEN OF THE OWLS (April 2020) is the powerful story of a woman’s search for wholeness, framed around the art and life of iconic painter Georgia O’Keeffe. QUEEN OF THE OWLS has been selected as one of the 20 most anticipated books of 2020 by Working Mother and will be the May 2020 selection for the Pulpwood Queens, a network of …
May Bonus Books
May 2020 Bonus Books of the Month Walking The Wrong Way Home Walking The Wrong Way Home takes you inside the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. Where hidden secrets are brought to light and burned with past regrets in brush piles in the mountains of East Tennessee or used to set fire to the mass produced tall and skinnies taking over East Nashville. Between the pages you'll meet Penny, an eighty-seven year old widow who sleeps in her red shoes, Jimmy, a quiet auto mechanic whose …
New Pulpwood Authors – May 2020
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Hippie Chick, Coming of Age in the '60s A teenage girl finds her mother dead in the bathroom. To save her from living alone with a difficult father, her sister sends her a ticket to leave New Jersey. Landing in San Francisco, she is thrust into a lifestyle way beyond what she is ready for, and that challenges all previous notions of how one behaves. It is 1963, and we are brought along as she becomes immersed in the unfolding of the sixties during the …
Author of the Month – April 2020
Author Susan Cushman Susan Cushman is author of three books: Friends of the Library (short stories), Cherry Bomb (novel), and Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer’s (memoir). She is editor of three anthologies: Southern Writers on Writing, A Second Blooming: Becoming the Women We Are Meant to Be, and The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years! Her essays have appeared in four anthologies and numerous journals and magazines. She was co-director of the 2010 and 2013 Creative …
New Pulpwood Authors – April 2020
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Quest of the Warrior Maiden Two cruel prophecies. A warrior with an impossible choice. Will she doom her people or save her love? Frankish Empire, 802 AD. Christian warrior Bradamante puts honor above all else. But when she meets handsome Saracen knight Ruggiero on the field of battle, forbidden passion ignites. With her lover pledged to the enemy, she fears duty and honor must keep them apart forever… When a sorcerer imprisons the knight, Bradamante …
April Bonus Books
April 2020 Bonus Books of the Month What We Set In Motion: A Novel Set in the turbulent, colorful 1970’s, What We Set in Motion finds the daughter of a prominent old South Carolina Lowcountry family fleeing to New York’s Greenwich Village in pursuit of a dance career. Cut off by her disapproving father and abandoned by her would-be fiancé, Nadine Carter Barnwell must strive on her own to beat the harrowing odds. Penniless and surrounded by the temptation of dubious money-making schemes and …
Wait, They Want More? (An Author’s Journey to Vulnerability)
Wait, They Want More? (An Author’s Journey to Vulnerability) By Author Keturah Kendrick Like many new authors, I was unprepared to be a new author. I was not clueless that I had no idea what releasing a book into the world would entail since I had never before released a book into the world. Up until my publishing date, I was honest with myself and with all the friends who patiently listened to me drone on about nothing else but the birth of No Thanks. I was nervous about not doing what I …
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Author of the Month – March 2020
Author Karen Abbott Karen Abbott is the New York Times bestselling author of SIN IN THE SECOND CITY, AMERICAN ROSE, and LIAR TEMPTRESS SOLDIER SPY, named one of the best books of the year by Library Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and Amazon. She has written for NewYorker.com, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, and other publications. Her new book, THE GHOSTS OF EDEN PARK, is an instant New York Times bestseller, an Edgar Award Finalist for best fact …
How to Market Your Book in 5 Incredibly Simple Steps
Let’s be honest: marketing is anything but simple, especially in today’s media-saturated world. There is a lot to do — from deciding how to price your book to creating a strong online presence — and there are so many different ways to do them. For example, have you ever thought about whether you want to pay for Facebook ads or Amazon ads? Would you like to do an online or offline launch event (current circumstances aside)? Will you run a price promotion — and if so, at what price and for how …
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Announcing our New State Ambassadors Program
Pulpwood State Ambassadors (Tuh Wah Nahs) The Pulpwood Queen’s Book Club is starting a new program where we are focused on helping new members get settled into local chapters located near them. If a local chapter is not located near them, we want to help new members start new local chapters. We also just launched Pulpwood Academy which is the official International Online Chapter. If new members don’t have a local chapter to join and do not wish to start and manage a local …
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New Pulpwood Authors – March 2020
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Going Home Book Description: n 1970, Violet Hawkins’ only wish at eighteen is to escape her life in the Dayton, Ohio, foster-care system and make her way to the west coast to enjoy a mellow life and find the love she’s been missing all her life. She makes it to San Francisco, but soon learns she needs a job if she’s to live properly. A kind, young man named Kenton Chandler offers her a sandwich and a job at his father’s inn and vineyards. With nothing to …
Author of the Month – February 2020
Author Julie Kibler Julie Kibler is the bestselling author of Home for Erring and Outcast Girls and Calling Me Home, which was an IndieNext List pick, Target Club Pick, and Ladies’ Home Journal Book Club Pick, published in fifteen languages. She has a bachelor’s degree in English and journalism and a master’s degree in library science and lives with her family, including four rescued dogs and cats, in Texas. Home for Erring and Outcast Girls Synopsis An emotionally raw and …
New Pulpwood Authors – February 2020
Welcome Our New Pulpwood Authors! Plea For Justice Plea for Justice is a psychological, legal thriller by Liz Lazarus, told in alternating viewpoints by “Jackie,” a paralegal in pursuit of justice, and “Me,” a terrifying killer with treacherous cyber skills. Lazarus has once again produced a page-turner, full of drama and suspense—and more than one unexpected twist. Set in Atlanta, GA, main character Jackie Siegel is contacted from prison by her estranged friend, Aaron Slater. …
20th Anniversary Pulpwood Queen’s Girlfriend Weekend Photos
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Author Talk – Interview with the Pulpwood Queen
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