The Pulpwood Queen UPDATED Press Release for 2019 Girlfriend Weekend Program!

Attention 2019 Pulpwood Queens, Timber Guys, our Authors, Attendees and those who are thinking about coming to our 19th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend!

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
December 4, 2018 – Jefferson, Texas – We are proud to announce that this up-and-coming book club convention will now be held back home at the Jefferson Tourism & Transportation Convention Center in historic Jefferson, Texas, January 17 – 19, 2019 where our Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs. We have gone back to our roots where everything began with my former Beauty and the Book and the founding of my Pulpwood Queens of East Texas Book Club in 2000.
Membership, tickets, and packages are available for purchase on our Official website,www.thepulpwoodqueens.com and as space is limited, book yours TODAY.
Go to https://visitjeffersontexas.com/places-to-stay for the full listing of all the wonderful accommodations to stay during your visit to historic Jefferson, Texas and many are walking distance from the convention center. For all the attractions and more go to www.visitjeffersontexas.com and the City of Jefferson now even has an awesome app at www.visitjeffersontexas.com where you can find and book reservations for your rooms and restaurants while visiting.
For more information on the event contact:
Kathy L. Murphy
Founder of the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Reading Nation
Official and only Email: thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com (Press passes are available for any media doing a feature and to request a phone number for media interviews. )
Official and ONLY website: www.thepulpwoodqueens.com
The working program is about to go up online on the website but in the meantime here is the basic itinerary of events:
2019 GIRLFRIEND WEEKEND
AUTHOR EXTRAVAGANZA
HOW THE WEST WAS WON!
January 17 – 19, 2019
The Jefferson Visitors & Convention 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 tracks toward the train ride to pick up your Pulpwood Queen pre-paid packets and to purchase individual tickets for events if any are still left.
THURSDAY NIGHT
January 17, 2018
6:30 p.m. Author check in for their name tags, pick up packets, and to go over itinerary for the weekend.
7:00 p.m. Entertainment by Author/Musical Artist, Rickey Pittman
All authors will be introduced!
“Southern Writers on Southern Writing”
Featuring Editor Susan Cushman, and her authors, Nicole Seitz, River Jordan, Suzanne Hudson, Michael Farris Smith, Patti Callahan Henry, Niles Reddick, Julie Perkins Cantrell, Julie, Joe Formichella, Brenda McClain, and Cassandra King Conroy.
January 18– 19, 2017
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Day Panels
All day Author Panels featuring each hour, authors who are interviewed followed by autograph time. All authors featured after their panel will immediately go to AUTHOR AUTOGRAPH TABLE at the VENDOR/BOOKSTORE table. To ensure you get your books signed, go immediately to the AUTHOR AUTOGRAPH TABLES after they speak, pre-purchased books only and be ready to have your book/books signed.
MURDER BY THE BOOK of Houston, Texas will provide the BOOKSTORE for all the author books for the event. Authors also will be available to sign books throughout the weekend but do note some will only be able to sign after their panel, which will be announced.
Also, we will have VENDORS, (open 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.), Friday and Saturday that will feature the BEST of the BEST SHOWCASED for our book-loving attendees.
AN AUTHOR SILENT AUCTION will be held with showcased items signed and donated by all our authors. All proceeds from the SILENT AUCTION will go to THE PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTER, (The Pulpwood Queens Book Club endorses this literacy project as our charity of choice). All authors featured donate a signed object that ties in with their book for this literary promoting fundraiser. Be PRESENT and PREPARED to pay for the item you bid on for the Silent Auction by cash or check payable to Beauty and the Book Saturday afternoon.
FRIDAY MORNING
8:00 a.m. REGISTRATION at Convention Center
9:00 a.m. Grand Ballroom
KATHY L. MURPHY, founder of The Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs, Author of “The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life” her co-host, New York Times Bestselling Author, REAVIS WORTHAM, of “Hawke’s Prey” ,“Hawke’s War”, and “Gold Dust”.
Come dressed wearing an original decorated with our theme HOW THE WEST WAS WON Cowboy hat with Tiara for our TIARA CONTEST! Winner will be announced during our AWARD CEREMONY on Saturday! Special Points will be added by our judges for wearing Pulpwood Queen western attire, our signature Pulpwood Queen Official T-shirts, leopard print fashions bling, and if BOOK RELATED! HOPE YOU WIN!
9:00 a.m. – 9:05 a.m. Welcome to our HOW THE WEST WAS WON themed Girlfriend Weekend Author Extravaganza!
9:05 a.m. – 9:25 a.m. KEYNOTE SPEAKER, New York Times Bestselling author, REAVIS WORTHAM of “Hawke’s Prey”, “Hawke’s War” and “Gold Dust”
9:25 a.m. – 9:45 a.m KEYNOTE SPEAKER New York Times Bestselling Author, PAULA MCLAIN of “Love and Ruin” and “The Paris Wife”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDORS/BOOKSTORE
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Tim Bryant of “A World of Hurt” and “Dead and Buried”
Fletcher Celeste of “My Better Angels”
Camille Di Maio of “The Way of Beauty and “The Beautiful Strangers”
Beth M. Howard of “Haufraus Honeymoon: Love, Language, and other Misadventures in Germany”
Kathryn Taylor of “Two Minus One: A Memoir”
11:00 a.m.- 11:45 a.m.
“Steal Away Home: A Novel” by Billy Coffey
“The Fighter” by Michael Smith Farris
“Shoe Burnin’ Season: A Womanifesto by R.P. Saffire a.k.a  Suzanne Hudson
“The Jossling Affair” and “Mist-Cha-Mas: A Novel of Captivity” by J.L. Oakley
“Red Mountain: A Novel“ by Boo Walker
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDORS/BOOKSTORE
12:00 p.m. Noon Lunch at the many fine eateries of downtown Jefferson, Texas or within a short driving distance.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
1:30 p.m. – 2:15 a.m.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER, ANN WEISGARBER of  “The Glovemaker: A Novel”, “The Promise: A Novel” and soon to film, “The Personal History of Rachel DePree: A Novel”.
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Cameron Powell of “Ordinary Magic: Promises I Kept To My Mother Through Life, Illness, and A Very Long Walk On The Camino Di Santiago”
James E. Cherry of “Edge of the Wind”
Joe Formichella of “Waffle House Rules”
Niles Reddick of “Road Kill Art and Other Oddities” and “Reading the Coffee Grounds and Other Stories”
John Warley of “Stand Forever, Yielding Never: The Citadel in the 21st Century”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE

3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Missy Buchanan of “Beach Calling: A Devotional Journal for the Middle Years and Beyond”
Joy Ross Davis of “Countenance”

Barbara Claypool White of “The Promise Between Us”

Connor Garrett of “Life in Lyrics”
Echo Garrett and Mark. E. Green of “A Warrior’s Code 001: 7 Vital Steps to Resiliency”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Pulpwood Queen Art Fashion Show featuring our Authors and Queens as our models! You can order now to wear at our event any of The Pulpwood Queen art inspired fashions at www.ShopVida.com/collections/thepulpwoodqueen . Email me atthepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com to tell me what you will be wearing and you will be entered into the fashion show wearing your Pulpwood Queen STYLE! I also will be doing a drawing for a FREE PACKAGE to our 20th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend to all who participate in the Pulpwood Queen Style and Fashion Show! Hope you WIN!
5:00 p.m. Closing remarks by KATHY L. MURPHY and REAVIS WORTHAM
Last chance to purchase books and visit our vendors for the day at our VENDOR/BOOKSTORE ROOM.
FRIDAY EVENING
The Jefferson Tourism & Transportation Convention Center
6:30 p.m. FOR AUTHORS ONLY DINNER for they will be the Authors who will be waiting tables. Authors come dressed as your favorite Country & Western Musical Artist!
8:00 p.m. Author Dinner for Attendees and door opens not one minute earlier!
Opening will be the author, John Warley of “Stand Forever, Yielding Never: The Citadel in the 21st Century”
“Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy”
Featuring Editors Nicole Seitz and Jonathan Haupt as moderators for the panel of contributing authors including Cassandra King Conroy, John Warley, Patti Callahan Henry, Kathy L. Murphy, Tim Conroy, Brenda McClain, and Teresa Miller.
Featuring too ALL our Authors dressed in “How The West Was Won” themed style of Country and Western Musical Artists all  waiting your tables with catering by Joseph’s Riverport BBQ, the Official caterer of The Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs.
January 19, 2019
SATURDAY MORNING
The Jefferson Tourism & Transportation Convention Center
8:00 a.m. REGISTRATION
8:45 a.m. KATHY L. MURPHY and REAVIS WORTHAM, are back as your hosts!
9:00 a.m. KEYNOTE SPEAKER BLOOM! Tall Poppy Reader and Founder, ANN WERTZ GARVIN of “I Like You Just Fine When You’re Not Around”.
9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Johnnie Bernhard of “How We Came To Be”
Peter Golden of “Nothing is Forgotten: A Novel”
Kacey Kowars of “A Celebration of Words: Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke, Andre DuBus and Son, and Jeannette Walls”, Introduction by Kathy L. Murphy
Vol. II”
Marjorie Herrera Lewis of “When the Men Were Gone: A Novel”
Gregory Phillips of “The Exile: A Novel”

BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Michelle Cox of “A Promise Given: A Henrietta and Inspector Howell Novel”
Sara Knoll Dahmen of “Smith: A Novel”
Claire Fullerton of “Mourning Dove”’

Paula McClain of “Love & Ruin”
Jennifer Mueller of “The Secrets of the Coromandel House”
Colleen Oakley of “Close Enough to Touch: A Novel”
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
12:15 p.m. Dine at the fine eateries and bistros of Jefferson, Texas.
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: LISA WINGATE of the one million dollar hardback bestseller “Before We Were Yours”, Pulpwood Queen Bonus Book of the Year 2018
BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE
2:15 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.

Charles Clifford Brooks III of “The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics: Poems”
Ann Wertz Garvin of Bloom: Tall Poppy Readers/Moderator
Julie Perkins Cantrell of “Perennials”
River Jordan of “Confessions of a Christian Mystic”
Patti Callahan Henry of “Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis”
3:15 P.M. – 3:45 P.M. Closing Speaker Panel:
Breathless Books and Bubbles
Stephanie Chance of “Beautiful Seductions, From Italy to Decorate Ornate”
Patricia V. Davis of “Spells and Oregano: Book Two of The Secret Spice Cafe”

Judithe Little of “Wickwythe Hall: A Novel”
Deborah Rodriguez of “The Little Coffee Shop in Kabul: A Novel”
Rebecca Rosenberg of “The Secret Life of Mrs. London: A Novel”

BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOKSTORE AND BREATHLESS WINE TASTING
4:15 P.M.
Awards Presentation for the following:
Pulpwood Queen Bonus Book of the Year
Pulpwood Queen Book of the Year – Fiction & Non-Fiction
KATHY L. MURPHY to present The KAT Award and the announcement of TIARA AWARD!
Special Presentation: THE DOUG MARLETTE AWARD presented to an individual for the Lifetime Achievement of Promoting Literacy.
4: 30 p.m. Keynote Speaker, Tim Conroy’s presentation PAT CONROY”S GREAT LOVE OF POETRY.
Silent Auction winners announced. Each author will be present to present each winner of the highest bid his or her signed personal item. Be prepared to pick up and pay at this time with cash or check, payable to Beauty and the Book as you pick up your winning bid item!
Final remarks from KATHY L. MURPHY, REAVIS WORTHAM as we announce the theme for our for next year’s event and conclude our weekend’s presentation of AUTHORS!
VENDOR/BOOKSTORE ROOM Closes at 6;00 p.m.
Shop the streets of Jefferson, dine in their fantabulous eateries, and prepare for an evening of magic! We are all going to the “GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR” BALL!
SATURDAY EVENING: The Jefferson Tourism & Transportation Convention Center
8:00 P.M.GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR “HOW THE WEST WAS WON” themed BALL! Each costumed Attendee and Authors will be formally introduced this year as they enter for our “GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR” BALL! Come dressed as your favorite HOW THE WEST WAS WON character, your favorite author or book character and compete for BEST THEMED GIRL GROUP, BEST THEMED SKIT CONTEST, TIMBER GUY and BEST PULPWOOD QUEEN THEMED COSTUME CONTES FOR HOMECOMING “GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR” BALL QUEEN AND KING!
D.J for the best dance music EVER and B.Y.O.B!
GET YOUR BOOK to BOOT SCOOTING BOOTIE ON!
Have your cameras ready!
All information in the program could be subject to change due to circumstances beyond our control.
All memberships, tickets, and packages are NON- REFUNDABLE.
Our Official hashtag is #PQGirlfriendWeekend for social media posts.
For our Official website: www.thepulpwoodqueens.com!

DO NOTE: Memberships, tickets, and packages are NON-REFUNDABLE AND FINAL