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Announcing our New State Ambassadors Program

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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

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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 …

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Author of the Month – February 2020

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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 …

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New Pulpwood Authors – February 2020

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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. …

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The Pulpwood Queen Has Breaking News!

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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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The Pulpwood Queen Press Release On All the Winners and Awards at our 20th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend!

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Kathy L. Murphy Founder of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club and our Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend Book Club Convention Email: thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com Website: www.thepulpwoodqueens.com January 24, 2020 PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jefferson, Texas - As the founder of The Pulpwood Queen Book Club Reading Nation, now at nearly 800 chapters making us the largest "meeting and discussing" book club in the world, am happy to announce the following Awards and Winners at …

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The Pulpwood Queen Recognizes and Bows to the Feet of my Girlfriend Weekend Volunteers!

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You all I am a bit under the weather, perhaps a cold, just overdoing it as usual, but just give me a chance to recoup and get caught up here as unpacking soon my camper and car. I would certainly appreciate it!   But in the meantime, I have something to say that is important. All the people working my 20th Anniversary Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend are volunteers. They need to be recognized and treated like Queens and Kings. Service Above Self, they gave it there all. So for those …

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Press Release on Announcing Official 2020 Pulpwood Queen Book Club Selections!

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  Press Release for Immediate Release! ATTENTION PULPWOOD QUEEN BOOK CLUB MEMBERS! It is Official! Here are our 2020 PULPWOOD QUEEN BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS! JANUARY 2020 BOOK OF THE MONTH The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years edited by Susan Cushman BONUS BOOKS OF THE MONTH: Hawke's Target by Reavis Z. Wortham, of Sonny Hawke Thriller Series What Would Dolly Do? by Lauren Marino From Cinderella to CEO: How to Master the 10 Lessons of Fairy Tales To Transform Your Work Life by …

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Full Program on Press Release for 2020 Pulpwood Queens Girlfriend Weekend Book Club Convention!

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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 …

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The Pulpwood Queen Announces Changes, A Very Happy New Year!

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Kathy L. Murphy, Artist, Author, and Founder of The Pulpwood Queen Reading Nation, www.thepulpwoodqueens.com. Dear Readers, I have changed literally and figuratively this year.  First, of all, I lost my gal pal, the Executive Director of The Pulpwood Queen Book Clubs, Tiajuana Anderson Neel.  It was a shock to everyone who knew and loved her, especially me. I hardly had to time to grieve as I had so many events and places I had to be on my calendar but it all caught up with me this …

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The Pulpwood Queen Shares Congratulations to our 20th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend Featured Authors!

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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 …

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The Pulpwood Queen Talks About the Benefits of Traveling for Literary Adventures!

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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 …

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The Pulpwood Queen Shares Things to Know Before Boarding The Queen Mary!

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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!

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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!

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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 …

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The Pulpwood Queen Travels to NYC for Cinderella to CEO Awards as a Nominee!

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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 Queens Celebrate 20 Years, Read All About It!

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Dear Readers from Jonathan Haupt today on Facebook: Jonathan Haupt 12 hrs ·  I'm honored to have been given the opportunity to contribute an afterword to the anthology The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years, forthcoming this December--edited by Susan Cushman with an introduction by Pulpwood Queens founder Kathy L. Murphy and a foreword by Robert Hicks. This collection celebrates the remarkable community of readers and writers at the …

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The Pulpwood Queen Announces “The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 year’s Pre-order Date”!

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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 …

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Update on Summer into Fall Pulpwood Queen Calendar of Events!

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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!

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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!

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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 …

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The Pulpwood Queen New Calendar of Events Summer 2019!

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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 Guest Blogger, Carol Megathlin!

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Pulpwood Queens and Death Wishes Inbox x Carol Megathlin <cmega@bellsouth.net> 1:39 AM (4 hours ago) to Bill Favorite people, “I can’t get you both in the shot,” Steph said. I was posing with Winston Groome, author of Forrest Gump, but alas, who knew he was so tall?  As you will see in the attached picture, the top of my …

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UPDATE On TIAJUANA ANDERSON NEEL Scholarship!

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Attention regarding Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend Scholarship Donations in the name of Tiajuana Anderson Neel, the late great Executive Director of The Pulpwood Queen Book Club Reading Nation and my dearest friend: An update on the Pulpwood Queen "Tiajuana Anderson Neel" Scholarship Fund.  All scholarships have been given and just waiting on an essay. We are no longer looking for those to participate in the essay contest.  Read All About It and let's make someone's dream to attend come …

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The Pulpwood Queen Announces Calendar of Spring Into Summer Events!

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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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The Pulpwood Queen Reporting from the Road on Yet another ROAD TRIP with Tiajuana!

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Dear Readers, It all began with a pair of pants.  A pair of pants that was worn by author, Pat Conroy during his years of writing"Beach Music" to be specific.  Those pants were donated by Pat to my Author Silent Auction that is held ever year during my annual Pulpwood Queen Book Club Convention we call Girlfriend Weekend to fund literacy endeavors and literary charities. They went for quite a fee, nearly $1,000.  An author, by the name of M.L. Malcolm won the final bid.  Lucky girl as Pat …

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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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