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The Pulpwood Queen Wants You to Watch This Film, “Billu”!

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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!

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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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Meeting the Pulpwood Queen By Jax Frey

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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

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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 …

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Author of the Month – July 2020

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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 …

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July Bonus Books

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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, …

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The Pulpwood Queen Shares her Valentine Writing Room!

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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!

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The Pulpwood Queen Welcomes All New Authors and Members To Our Book Club!

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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!

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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 …

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The Pulpwood Queen Announces January 2021 Official Pulpwood Queen Book Club Selections!

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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 …

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The Pulpwood Queen Welcomes Guest Blogger, Author, Connor Garrett!

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Writing a Fantasy Novel with My Dad During Protests, Power Outages, and a Pandemic   By Connor Judson Garrett   Twenty-seven years ago, I met Kevin N. Garrett, a man that would one day become my writing partner. He also happens to be my father.  When I was a kid, he used to tell my older brother and I his mashed-up remixes of fairy tales, such as Little Blue Riding Hood and The Medicinal Tequila, and Robin Hood and The Three Little Pigs. After the Harry Potter series …

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3 Ways to Spin Your Novel into a Series

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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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The Pulpwood Queen Shares her Love for “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD07PKGvh6Y&t=448s Dear Readers! When I was a child I watched this film and it had a profound effect on me. First of all, the child actress Mary Badham portrayed in the character of Scout reminded me so much of myself. I was such a tomboy and still am. I would have given anything to wear overalls to school but school policy was little girls had to wear dresses. So I totally related to this character but then I got caught up in the story. I grew up in a …

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The Pulpwood Queen in Planning Stages of Going more DIVERSE and GLOBAL!

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  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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Author of the Month – June 2020

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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 …

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The Pulpwood Queen Announces 2021 Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend Cancelled!

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Dear Pulpwood Queens Book Club Members, our Authors, and Book Lovers Everywhere, After much sincere consideration and discussion with my Pulpwood Queen staff and with deep sadness we have decided to be safe and cancel our 2021 Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend, January 14 - 16, 2021 in Jefferson, Texas.  Many factors went into this decision but mostly because all other festivals and events in this world, especially in Jefferson, Texas, have cancelled to keep people safe in this time of social …

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June Bonus Books

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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 …

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New Pulpwood Authors – June 2020

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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, …

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Author of the Month – May 2020

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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 …

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May Bonus Books

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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 …

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New Pulpwood Authors – May 2020

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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 …

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Author of the Month – April 2020

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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 …

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New Pulpwood Authors – April 2020

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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 …

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April Bonus Books

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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 …

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Wait, They Want More? (An Author’s Journey to Vulnerability)

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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

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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 …

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How to Market Your Book in 5 Incredibly Simple Steps

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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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The Pulpwood Queen Announces NEW Breathless Bubbles & Books READS!

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The Pulpwood Queen Announces NEW Breathless Bubbles & Books READS! Press Release for Immediate Release: March 19, 2020 The Pulpwood Queen is pleased to announce as the NEW administrator of the Breathless Bubbles and Books NEW pairings of our Official Pulpwood Queens Book Club Books to be paired with Breathless Wines for our Breathless Bubbles & Books! JANUARY BOOK OF THE MONTH The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years edited by Susan Cushman, introduction by Kathy L. …

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Official 2024 International Pulpwood Queen and Timber Guy Book Club Selections

  Official 2024 International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Reading Nation Books of the Month   January Book of the Month: "Lady Tan's Circle of Women: A Novel" by Lisa See January International Book of the Month: "Once And For All: Book Two: Winds of Fire Series" by Anju Gattani January Bonus Book Club Selections: "How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies" by Amy Wallen   "The Marsh King's Daughter" by Karen …

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