Dear Readers,
Heads up on book festivals in which I will be featured and speaking as follows:
July 19 - 20, 2008
Author! Author! Shreveport's Celebration of the Written Word
http://www.authorauthorshreveport.com/index.html
September 23 - 27, 2008
West Texas Book and Music Festival in Abilene, Texas
http://www.abilenetx.com/APL/bookfest_general.html
March 25 - 29, 2009
23rd Annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
http://www.tennesseewilliams.net/
More to come,
kat
Kathy L. Patrick
Founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs
www.pulpwoodqueen.com
www.beautyandthebook.com
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
I read six books this past week. That is what summer means to me, time to read. Though this season no longer means the lazy days of summer, I some how find the time to read. It's just that important.
When I was a child, I would hop on my blue Schwinn bicycle and peddle to the local Eureka Carnegie Library. It was cool inside especially in the basement where all the children's books were shelved. I would spend hours perusing the shelves, maybe for the latest Nancy Drew. I was on a mission to read the entire series or maybe I would be brave and go upstairs as I was reading all the Louisa May Alcott books. If I found an author I liked, I liked to read their entire body of work. I still do. Back home I'd trek with my basket full of books. I could hardly wait until I could get up in my tree house to read my latest acquisition.
Recently I read Doug Crandell's "The Flawless Skin of Ugly People" and his latest "Hairdo's of the Mildly Depressed" as my book club, the Pulpwood Queens are having a book launch for "Hairdo's". What struck me about Doug's work was his ability to write such truths about subjects that were not lifestyles of the rich and famous or beautiful, but real stories about real people that made you really think about what truth and beauty really mean. I love to read books written in perspectives I have never read of before. I also am driven to want to read man's books who took a dermatologist on tour with him for his first book. I wonder what he will take on him with book tour for "Hairdo's". Hmmm, maybe me? For those who are first reading this blog, I am a hairdresser/bookseller, NOT mildly depressed!
I also just finished reading "The Shack" by William P. Young, mostly because my Sunday School teacher, Bill Smith, gave it to me as he wanted to know what I thought of the book. I gave him "God for President: A Parable About the Power of Love" by Lisa Venable as I wanted to know the same, what he thought of it. Now I just finished "Sins of a Father: The True Story of Kitty Chappell" as she is coming in for the Christian and Inspirational Book Festival I run called BOOKS ALIVE! as a fundraiser for my church's mission and outreach programs. Kitty stopped by my shop to meet me this summer and give me her books. I thank God that authors take the time to bless my doors. I am always amazed at their stories. All three of these books you cannot put down and again they make you think and then of course, make you can't wait to discuss and share them with others.
I read Sarah Bird's "How Perfect is That" then immediately became engrossed in Janelle Brown's "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything". Both books to me are cautionary tales of the times we live in, too much, too fast, too soon, and then the price to pay. Both books made me madder than a wet hen when I had to put them down to do a client's hair in my hair salon/book store, Beauty and the Book. But then again, I just do what I always do after I begin their cut, color, or style, I rave on and on about the particular book I am reading until they break down to buy a copy. I have yet to have someone write or call me later to tell me I made a big mistake. Most of the time, I receive an email or call telling me they loved the book I recommended. What else could I suggest they read!
I wept as I began Kathi Appelt's "The Underground", a children's chapter book about an abandoned cat and her friendship with an abused dog. Suddenly, I was ten years old again reading "Old Yeller", "Bristleface", "Rascal", and "Mr. Popper's Penguins. I hadn't cried over a book like that since Jack died in the Little House in the Prairie books or even when I read as an adult Willie Morris's "My Dog Skip". Kathi is a storyteller extraorginaire. You must share this with your kiddos.
I loved Robert LeLeux's memoir of growing up in East Texas, "memoirs of a beautiful boy" and Jacque Couvillion's "The Chicken Dance" set on an island off the coast of south Louisiana. You may have never heard of either of these southern authors, but you better start reading as I predict big things for both of these authors!
At this moment I have seven stacks of books each a yard high and nearly as many books bags crammed with books setting by my wingbacked chair for me to read this summer. A dauntless task, hardly, I can barely stand to wait, just like I do for the first taste summer blueberries, strawberries, peaches, and tomatoes. A virtual feast is set before me. I plan to dine in style with long, cool glasses of iced minted tea, lemonade, and bowls of ice cream. With gas prices keeping us closer to home, there is no excuse for not taking a great trip by reading a good book. So far I've been to California, New York, North Carolina, to name a few and yes, even East Texas with my arm chair traveling of reading books. My NEW Head Queen of The Pulpwood Queens' of Anchorage, Alaska just sent me a treasure trove of Alaska goodies including a book and magazines on Alaska. I can't wait to read and travel there, I can almost imagine the arctic summer air.
Denise Hamilton's new book arrived, "The Last Embrace" and I'm taken back to old Hollywood. A subject matter that fascinates me beyond reason and just received Doris Day's new biography, "Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door" by David Kaufman of which I have just started and is it good. I had just finished, "The Loveliest Woman in America: A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries, and Her Granddaugher's Search for Home" by Bibi Gaston which I found one of the most fascinating and intriguing reads ever.
Now wait, all those books do not add up to six books that I've read in the past week, they add up too.... Well, I never was good with math which reminds me of my favorite quote of all time, "The world is made up of stories, not atoms." to quote Muriel Rukheyser. Whatever they do add up to, all I know is that the correct answer is reading. Make this a reading summer, visit your local library or favorite bookstore. All the money you save in gas will profit you by learning more about others and even help you make some self-discoveries. The best trip I ever made was in reading a good book. I can share my adventure with my Pulpwood Queens Book Club members and YOU! Happy Tales to YOU and I would love to hear of your great book adventures too this summer. The best reads I have ever read have come from the recommendations of my reading friends. I would never have read "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden or "The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver or "The Glass Castle" by Jeanette Walls if it had not been for authors, readers, and friends like you sharing their great reads. I hope you like mine and I look forward to hearing from you too!
Tiara wearing and book sharing,Kathy L. PatrickFounder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs and Author of "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life", Grand Central Publishing
http://www.pulpwoodqueen.com
http://www.beautyandthebook.com
Friday, June 27, 2008
The Pulpwood Queen Takes a Road Trip and IMPORTANT BOOK CLUB INFORMATION!
Dear Pulpwood Queens and future Pulpwood Queen Book Club Members!
I am headed to Kansas as my father has to have some surgery and my nephews girlfriend was involved in a tragic car accident that has left the car full of teenagers in the hospital in Wichita with dibilatating injuries. Back after the 4th sometime, prayers for me and my family as we're going to need them.
Now here is the summer's schedule of events to far with also attached our book club selection list. I just posted yesterday the book club discussion questions for this month for "The Wednesday Sister's" at www.pulpwoodqueen.com. I please ask you to check this site if not every day, as often as you can. This is wear I am posting all news for you to share with you members. Started two more chapters of the Pulpwood Queens in Arkansas yesterday and do note, I have been invited to be featured in the fall at both the Texas Book Festival and the West Texas Book Festival. Maybe some of you can come as my Pulpwood Queen Posse' to those events too!
I had no idea The Pulpwood Queens would get this huge! And the literacy initatives you are starting as tremendous. Please send me what you are doing so I can post on our website and hopefully get in my next book, "BOOKS ALIVE! The Pulpwood Queens Guide to Reading for a Higher Purpose" of which I am working on now. I do so want to get everybody featured in the book so do tell me what you all are taking on as literacy initiatives.
I also just got inducted in as President of the Jefferson Rotary Club with this year's International Rotary theme being "Make Dreams Real". The focus this year is children and literacy and have never been more excited to be president with this theme. I began my post as President by giving all board and members, "Against Tall Odds" signed by Matt Roloff and donating Laura and Jena Bush's book "Read All About It to our local Jefferson Carnegie Library and School Library. I wanted everybody to know just how serious I was about promoting literacy and yes, children because Pulpwood Queens, as I always say, "don't talk the talk, if you can't walk the walk". That also transcribes to if you are going to be in our book club, READ THE BOOK! I am continually amazed by how many people say they are in a book club yet they don't read the book. Like my soon to be high school student daughter says, "DUH!"
Also got a wonderful call from Glenn Evans of the Longview News Journal of Writing Clubs and if you notice below I am started one in Longview. I am also starting one below in Jefferson.
So this summer like the song says, "Get up off that thing", and I say, "DO GOOD WORKS! I am continually inspired by all of you! Your enthusiasm, your patience in me trying to run this now book club "MONSTER"! It's just me but I have to tell you this too, The Pulpwood Queens of Tyler, Texas contacted me and they VOLUNTEERED to help me with our annual convention "AUTHOR EXTRAVAGANZA; GIRLFRIEND WEEKEND", held the third weekend in January 2009! I guess their winning GIRL GROUP OF THE YEAR at our annual BALL OF HAIR, has inspired them to jump in and help! All I can say is our official Pulpwood Queen yell, WOO HOO! I am feeling the love my friends, feeling the love!
So check it ALL out below and understand, Kathy L. Patrick is just doing the best she can. I am certainly not perfect but I assure the desire to be so is there, ha ha ha!
Tiara wearing and Book sharing,
Kathy L. Patrick
Founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs
Beauty and the Book
608 North Polk
Jefferson, Texas
903-665-7520
kathy@beautyandthebook.com
www.pulpwoodqueen.com
www.beautyandthebook.com
Pulpwood Queen Schedule of Events Summer 2008!
July 10th, 1:00 p.m at Newgate Mission in Longview, Texas - Lifewriting Class conducted by Kathy L. Patrick, author of "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life", Grand Central Publishing and held the second Thursday of each month.
Julye 10th, 6:30 p.m. at the Collins Academy in Jefferson, Texas - Lifewriting Class conducted by Kathy L. Patrick and will be held the second Thursday of each month.
For more information on these classes please contact: kathy@beautyandthebook.com or call Beauty and the Book, 903-665-7520.
July 18 - 19, AUTHOR! AUTHOR! Book Festival - Shreveport's Celebrations of the Written Word at the historic Municipal Auditorium, 705 Elvis Presley Avenue in Shreveport, Louisiana. Kathy L. Patrick will be one of the featured speakers, as well as many more authors including: Jewell Parker Rhodes, Deborah LeBlanc, Danny Brown, Kimberly Willis Holt, Lenora Worth, Jennifer Baumgardner, John Pritchard, and Jacques Couvillion. For more information please contact: llaird@authorauthorshreveport.com or 318-458-1666, or go to their website at www.authorauthorshreveport.com.
July 22, 6;30 p.m. at Beauty and the Book, 608 North Polk Street, Jefferson, Texas, Book Launch for author, Doug Crandel, of "Hairdos of the Mildly Depressed", Virgin Books hosted by The Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs. More on this event to be announced!
August 12, 6:00 p.m. "Rolling on the River" author event with Charles Martin of "Where the River Ends", Random House hosted by The Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs at The Turning Basin boat landing off Old Karnack Highway on Big Cypress Bayou in historic Jefferson, Texas. For tickets to this event, please contact: kathy@beautyandthebook.com or call 903-665-7520
I am headed to Kansas as my father has to have some surgery and my nephews girlfriend was involved in a tragic car accident that has left the car full of teenagers in the hospital in Wichita with dibilatating injuries. Back after the 4th sometime, prayers for me and my family as we're going to need them.
Now here is the summer's schedule of events to far with also attached our book club selection list. I just posted yesterday the book club discussion questions for this month for "The Wednesday Sister's" at www.pulpwoodqueen.com. I please ask you to check this site if not every day, as often as you can. This is wear I am posting all news for you to share with you members. Started two more chapters of the Pulpwood Queens in Arkansas yesterday and do note, I have been invited to be featured in the fall at both the Texas Book Festival and the West Texas Book Festival. Maybe some of you can come as my Pulpwood Queen Posse' to those events too!
I had no idea The Pulpwood Queens would get this huge! And the literacy initatives you are starting as tremendous. Please send me what you are doing so I can post on our website and hopefully get in my next book, "BOOKS ALIVE! The Pulpwood Queens Guide to Reading for a Higher Purpose" of which I am working on now. I do so want to get everybody featured in the book so do tell me what you all are taking on as literacy initiatives.
I also just got inducted in as President of the Jefferson Rotary Club with this year's International Rotary theme being "Make Dreams Real". The focus this year is children and literacy and have never been more excited to be president with this theme. I began my post as President by giving all board and members, "Against Tall Odds" signed by Matt Roloff and donating Laura and Jena Bush's book "Read All About It to our local Jefferson Carnegie Library and School Library. I wanted everybody to know just how serious I was about promoting literacy and yes, children because Pulpwood Queens, as I always say, "don't talk the talk, if you can't walk the walk". That also transcribes to if you are going to be in our book club, READ THE BOOK! I am continually amazed by how many people say they are in a book club yet they don't read the book. Like my soon to be high school student daughter says, "DUH!"
Also got a wonderful call from Glenn Evans of the Longview News Journal of Writing Clubs and if you notice below I am started one in Longview. I am also starting one below in Jefferson.
So this summer like the song says, "Get up off that thing", and I say, "DO GOOD WORKS! I am continually inspired by all of you! Your enthusiasm, your patience in me trying to run this now book club "MONSTER"! It's just me but I have to tell you this too, The Pulpwood Queens of Tyler, Texas contacted me and they VOLUNTEERED to help me with our annual convention "AUTHOR EXTRAVAGANZA; GIRLFRIEND WEEKEND", held the third weekend in January 2009! I guess their winning GIRL GROUP OF THE YEAR at our annual BALL OF HAIR, has inspired them to jump in and help! All I can say is our official Pulpwood Queen yell, WOO HOO! I am feeling the love my friends, feeling the love!
So check it ALL out below and understand, Kathy L. Patrick is just doing the best she can. I am certainly not perfect but I assure the desire to be so is there, ha ha ha!
Tiara wearing and Book sharing,
Kathy L. Patrick
Founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs
Beauty and the Book
608 North Polk
Jefferson, Texas
903-665-7520
kathy@beautyandthebook.com
www.pulpwoodqueen.com
www.beautyandthebook.com
Pulpwood Queen Schedule of Events Summer 2008!
July 10th, 1:00 p.m at Newgate Mission in Longview, Texas - Lifewriting Class conducted by Kathy L. Patrick, author of "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life", Grand Central Publishing and held the second Thursday of each month.
Julye 10th, 6:30 p.m. at the Collins Academy in Jefferson, Texas - Lifewriting Class conducted by Kathy L. Patrick and will be held the second Thursday of each month.
For more information on these classes please contact: kathy@beautyandthebook.com or call Beauty and the Book, 903-665-7520.
July 18 - 19, AUTHOR! AUTHOR! Book Festival - Shreveport's Celebrations of the Written Word at the historic Municipal Auditorium, 705 Elvis Presley Avenue in Shreveport, Louisiana. Kathy L. Patrick will be one of the featured speakers, as well as many more authors including: Jewell Parker Rhodes, Deborah LeBlanc, Danny Brown, Kimberly Willis Holt, Lenora Worth, Jennifer Baumgardner, John Pritchard, and Jacques Couvillion. For more information please contact: llaird@authorauthorshreveport.com or 318-458-1666, or go to their website at www.authorauthorshreveport.com.
July 22, 6;30 p.m. at Beauty and the Book, 608 North Polk Street, Jefferson, Texas, Book Launch for author, Doug Crandel, of "Hairdos of the Mildly Depressed", Virgin Books hosted by The Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs. More on this event to be announced!
August 12, 6:00 p.m. "Rolling on the River" author event with Charles Martin of "Where the River Ends", Random House hosted by The Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs at The Turning Basin boat landing off Old Karnack Highway on Big Cypress Bayou in historic Jefferson, Texas. For tickets to this event, please contact: kathy@beautyandthebook.com or call 903-665-7520
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Joanna Pinsker
212-782-8941
WHERE THE RIVER ENDS
By Charles Martin
In the tradition of Nicholas Sparks, Charles Martin makes his mainstream debut with a heart-tugging novel about one man's unshakeable love for his dying wife. WHERE THE RIVER ENDS (Broadway Books; on-sale July 15, 2008; Hardcover; 978-0-7679-2698-0) by Charles Martin chronicles a love-filled, tragedy-tinged journey and a bond that transcends all.
They're an unlikely pair: Doss Michaels grew up in a trailer park in southern Georgia and works as a fishing guide and part-time artist in Charleston; Charleston native and current supermodel Abbie Coleman is the only child of the senior senator from South Carolina. For her family, it was not a match made in heaven.
After a decade of happy marriage, Abbie discovers a lump in her breast. That leads to four years of non-stop medical treatments, toxic drugs, and unending nausea--in short, the end of life as Doss and Abbie knew it.
When even her doctors throw in the towel, Doss still refuses to give up. But rather than let his wife waste away at home in the care of hired strangers, Doss packs their bags and slips out with Abbie in the middle of the night. Together they start a 130-mile river trip down the St. Mary's River--fulfilling a promise Doss had made to Abbie years ago.
To spur Abbie to finish the trip, Doss brings along her wish list--10 things she hoped to accomplish in life. There is nothing extraordinary on the list. No Mount Everest climbs, no ultra-marathons, no tours of remote corners of the globe. The wishes are simple, which is exactly the point. Because after all the hospital visits and excruciating treatments, 'normal' is a fleeting memory. Doss and Abbie want nothing better than to steal back some time together.
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While the Senator searches to find his daughter--along with most every major news network and law enforcement agency in the South, Doss makes a somewhat heroic push for the river's end. He encounters two problems: the river has a mind of its own and Doss has a secret he has not shared, not even with Abbie.
Charles Martin has written a powerfully emotional and beautiful story of heartbreaking loss and undying love.
20-City National Book Tour: Jacksonville, FL, Atlantic Beach, FL, Columbia, SC, Highlands, NC, Clayton, GA, Pawleys Island, SC, Mt. Pleasant, SC, Beaufort, SC, Savannah, GA, Shreveport, LA, Henderson, TX, Jackson, MS, Oxford, MS, Memphis, TN, Nashville, TN, Lexington, KY, Cincinnati, OH, Atlanta, GA, Birmingham, AL, Montgomery, AL, Sea Island, GA, St. Simons Island, GA.
AUTHOR BIO
Charles Martin is the author of five heart-wrenching novels: Chasing Fireflies, Maggie, When Crickets Cry, Wrapped in Rain and The Dead Don’t Dance. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida with his wife and their three young sons.
WHERE THE RIVER ENDS
By Charles Martin
Published by Broadway Books
A Division of the Doubleday Publishing Group
July 15, 2008/Hardcover
$19.95/384 pages/ISBN: 978-0-7679-2698-0
WORKING TOUR SCHEDULE FOR CHARLES MARTIN
7/14-15 Orlando, FL: CBA
7/16 Jacksonville, FL: Barnes & Noble
7/18 Atlantic Beach, FL: Bookmark Books
7/19 Daytona Beach, FL: Sam’s Club signing
7/19 Party hosted by author in Jacksonville
7/21 Boston, MA: Bookseller Dinner
7/23 Columbia, SC: Happy Bookseller
7/25 Highlands, NC: Cyrano’s Bookshop
7/26 Clayton, GA: Prater’s Books
7/26 Clayton, GA: Persimmon Creek Winery (w/Prater’s Books)
7/28 Blowing Rock, NC
8/1 Pawleys Island, SC: Litchfield Books (The Moveable Feast)
8/2 Mt. Pleasant, SC: Barnes & Noble
8/7 Beaufort, SC: Bay Street Trading
8/8 Savannah, GA: Books A Million
8/11 Shreveport, LA: Barnes & Noble
8/12 Jefferson, TX: Beauty & the Book
8/13 Jackson, MS: Lemuria
8/14 Oxford, MS: Square Books
8/21 Sun City, South Carolina w/University of South Carolina
8/26 Memphis, TN: Davis Kidd
8/28 Nashville, TN: Davis Kidd
9/3 Lexington, KY: Joseph Beth
9/4 Cincinnati, OH: Joseph Beth
9/16 Atlanta, GA: Margaret Mitchell House
9/18 Birmngham, AL: Alabama Booksmith
9/19 Montgomery, AL: Books A Million
9/23 Sea Island: The Cloister
9/24 St. Simons Island: GJ Ford
9/26-28 Mobile, AL (SIBA Trade Show)
11/5 Hilton Head, SC: Event w/Bay Street
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TBD: Borders in Florida
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Pulpwood Queen Book 2008 Book Club Selection Announcements (So Far)!
2008 Official Pulpwood Queen Book Club Selections (so far)!
January 2008
The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life by Kathy L. Patrick, Grand Central Publishing
Bonus Book
The Stylist: A Novel (P.S.) by Cai Emmons, Harper Perennial
From the Heart: Seven Rules to Live By by Robin Roberts, Hyperion
Splinters (our teen version of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
Rowdy in Paris by Tim Sadlin, Riverhead Hardcover
Pinecones (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
The Curse of Catunkhamun by Tim Raglin, TR Books
February 2008
Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home by Kim Sunee, Grand Central Publishing
Bonus Book
The Sweet Life by Lynn York, Plume
The Big Beautiful by Pamela Duncan
Splinters (our teen version of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
Pinecones (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Shermie Alexie, Little Brown Young Readers
March 2008
The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson, UnBridled Books
Bonus Book
God Said Yes by Heather Hornback Bland, Berkley
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs, Simon & Schuster
Splinters (our teen version of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club Selection)
Pinecones (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, HarperCollins
April 2008
Mermaids in the Basement by Michael Lee West, Harper
Bonus Book
One Fell Swoop by Virginia Boyd, Thomas Nelson
All the Numbers by Judy Larson, Ballentine Books
Splinters (our teen version of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club Selection)
Pinecones (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
My Mother The Cheerleader by Robert Sharenow, Harper Teen
From Emporia: The Story of William Allen White by Beverley Olsen Buller,
May 2008
A Model Summer by Paulina Porizkova, Hyperion
Bonus Book
the memoirs of a beautiful boy by robert leleux, St. Martins Press
Women of Magdalene by Rosemary Poole-Carter, Kunati Inc.
Splinters (our teen version of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club Selection)
Pinecones (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
Remember As You Pass Me By by L. King Perez, Milkweed
Jim Limber Davis: Black Orphan in the Confederate White House by Rickey Pittman, Pelican Publishing Company
June 2008
The Schooling of Claybird Catts by Janis Owens, Harper Paperbacks
Bonus Book
My Brother Michael by Janis Owens, Pineapple Press
Myra Sims by Janis Owens, Pineapple Press
Splinters (our teen version of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
The Chicken Dance by Jacques Covillion, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pinecones (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board by Bethany Hamilton, Pocket Books
July 2008
The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel by Meg Clayton, Ballentine Books
Bonus Book Club
How Perfect is That by Sarah Bird, Knopf Publishing Group
Dishing with the Kitchen Virgin by Susan Reinhardt, Kensington
Splinters (our teen version of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
The Wall by Peter Sis, Farrah, Straus, & Giroux
Pinecones (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, Atheneum
August 2008
Where the River Ends by Charles Martin, Broadway Books
Bonus Book Club
Bringing Home the Birkin by Michael Tonello, William Morrow Publishers
The Unlikely Lavender Queen by Jeannie Ralston, Broadway Books
September 2008
The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg, Knopf Publishing Group
Bonus Book Club
Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore, Thomas Nelson
The Flawless Skin of Ugly People by Doug Crandell, Virgin Books
Splinters (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Elsworth, Henry Holt & Company
Mockingbird by Charles J. Shields, Henry Holt & Company
Pinecones (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
I am Scout by Charles J. Shields, Henry Holt & Company
October 2008
Serena by Ron Rash
Bonus Book Club
Singularity by Kathryn Casey, St. Martins Minotaur
P.S. Just got this email in from Pulpwood Queen author, Ellen Baker with her book tour schedule. Hope any Pulpwood Queens or booklovers in these areas can support this terrific author! I have told all our authors, if they give me their book tour schedules, I will post them on our site. Who knows, maybe they could visit too your book club while in the area. It's always worth a try! Go Ellen!
January 2008
The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life by Kathy L. Patrick, Grand Central Publishing
Bonus Book
The Stylist: A Novel (P.S.) by Cai Emmons, Harper Perennial
From the Heart: Seven Rules to Live By by Robin Roberts, Hyperion
Splinters (our teen version of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
Rowdy in Paris by Tim Sadlin, Riverhead Hardcover
Pinecones (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
The Curse of Catunkhamun by Tim Raglin, TR Books
February 2008
Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home by Kim Sunee, Grand Central Publishing
Bonus Book
The Sweet Life by Lynn York, Plume
The Big Beautiful by Pamela Duncan
Splinters (our teen version of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
Pinecones (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Shermie Alexie, Little Brown Young Readers
March 2008
The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson, UnBridled Books
Bonus Book
God Said Yes by Heather Hornback Bland, Berkley
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs, Simon & Schuster
Splinters (our teen version of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club Selection)
Pinecones (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, HarperCollins
April 2008
Mermaids in the Basement by Michael Lee West, Harper
Bonus Book
One Fell Swoop by Virginia Boyd, Thomas Nelson
All the Numbers by Judy Larson, Ballentine Books
Splinters (our teen version of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club Selection)
Pinecones (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
My Mother The Cheerleader by Robert Sharenow, Harper Teen
From Emporia: The Story of William Allen White by Beverley Olsen Buller,
May 2008
A Model Summer by Paulina Porizkova, Hyperion
Bonus Book
the memoirs of a beautiful boy by robert leleux, St. Martins Press
Women of Magdalene by Rosemary Poole-Carter, Kunati Inc.
Splinters (our teen version of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club Selection)
Pinecones (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
Remember As You Pass Me By by L. King Perez, Milkweed
Jim Limber Davis: Black Orphan in the Confederate White House by Rickey Pittman, Pelican Publishing Company
June 2008
The Schooling of Claybird Catts by Janis Owens, Harper Paperbacks
Bonus Book
My Brother Michael by Janis Owens, Pineapple Press
Myra Sims by Janis Owens, Pineapple Press
Splinters (our teen version of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
The Chicken Dance by Jacques Covillion, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pinecones (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board by Bethany Hamilton, Pocket Books
July 2008
The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel by Meg Clayton, Ballentine Books
Bonus Book Club
How Perfect is That by Sarah Bird, Knopf Publishing Group
Dishing with the Kitchen Virgin by Susan Reinhardt, Kensington
Splinters (our teen version of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
The Wall by Peter Sis, Farrah, Straus, & Giroux
Pinecones (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, Atheneum
August 2008
Where the River Ends by Charles Martin, Broadway Books
Bonus Book Club
Bringing Home the Birkin by Michael Tonello, William Morrow Publishers
The Unlikely Lavender Queen by Jeannie Ralston, Broadway Books
September 2008
The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg, Knopf Publishing Group
Bonus Book Club
Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore, Thomas Nelson
The Flawless Skin of Ugly People by Doug Crandell, Virgin Books
Splinters (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Elsworth, Henry Holt & Company
Mockingbird by Charles J. Shields, Henry Holt & Company
Pinecones (our pre-teen version of The Pulpwood Queens Book Club) Selection
I am Scout by Charles J. Shields, Henry Holt & Company
October 2008
Serena by Ron Rash
Bonus Book Club
Singularity by Kathryn Casey, St. Martins Minotaur
P.S. Just got this email in from Pulpwood Queen author, Ellen Baker with her book tour schedule. Hope any Pulpwood Queens or booklovers in these areas can support this terrific author! I have told all our authors, if they give me their book tour schedules, I will post them on our site. Who knows, maybe they could visit too your book club while in the area. It's always worth a try! Go Ellen!
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KEEPING THE HOUSE will be released on Tuesday, July 15, and I'll be celebrating at one of my favorite independent bookstores, 
Speaking of book clubs, if yours chooses KEEPING THE HOUSE for your August, September, or October meeting, you could win two dozen Lacy Raisin Wafers (Dolly's recipe from the novel) to be shipped to you in time for your meeting. Just 
I hope to see you at one of my upcoming events! Saturday, May 24, 2008
The Pulpwood Queen is all about BOOKS!
Dear Readers,
For those of you that do not know this, I own and operate the ONLY Hair Salon/Book Store in the country, maybe in the world called Beauty and the Book! I love doing hair and I love talking books. Beauty and the Book combines two of my passions and to be quite frank, the hair business is good but the book business has almost come to a screeching halt.
So next time you are thinking about maybe buying a book, would you think about supporting my business. I welcome you with open arms and right now I have a large variety of signed books including:
Leading Ladies by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
The Chicken Dance by Jacques Couvillion
Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy by Robert LeLeux
Singing and Dancing Daughters of God by Timothy Schaffert
Making Waves in Zion by Cassandra King Ray
The Kabul Beauty School by Debbie Rodriguez
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
Grub by Elise Blackwell
The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish by Elise Blackwell
Electroboy by Andy Behrman
Jim Limber Davis: A Black Orphan in the Confederate White House by Rickey Pittman
Stories of the Confederate South by Rickey Pittman
Around the World in the Middle Seat: How I Saw the World (and Survived!) as a Group Travel Leader by Joyce Brooks
Seven Before Seventy: One Woman's Quest for the Seven Continents by Joyce Brooks
Juliette Ascending by R.Poole-Carter
What Remains by R.Poole-Carter
Women of Magdalene by Rosemary Poole-Carter
So summer is almost here, plan a trip to Beauty and the Book and if the gas prices are keeping you close to home, I ship books as we accept all major credit cards.
Have a fantabulous Memorial Weekend and remember this little ole independent bookstore/hair salon believes that everybody that graces my doors should be treated like a King or Queen. I would much rather shop where somebody appreciates and acknowledges my business.
As an added bonus, for each purchase made in my shop will enter you into a monthly drawing for a Pulpwood Queen membership or Pulpwood Queen Hot Pink T-shirt for the ladies or a Timber Guy Black T-shirt for the guys. I will be posting the winners name on this blog site. The Pulpwood Queens Book Club of which I am the founder is on a mission to get people reading in a big way, one book, one author, one person at a time!
Come join our book loving fun and enjoy the enticing photos of my shop and all the many book selections!
Tiara wearing and Book sharing,
Kathy L. Patrick
Founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs
Beauty and the Book
608 North Polk Street
Jefferson, Texas 75657
Call 903-665-7520 or
email kathy@beautyandthebook for book orders
www.beautyandthebook.com
www.pulpwoodqueen.com
P.S. SPECIAL NOTE: Foam Rubber Productions is having a Launch Party TODAY for Richard Bowden with the Moon & the Starz for their debut CD release "Rising Over Texas". Partial proceeds go to Music City Texas Theater. Pulpwood Queens, this is the band that played last year at our annual Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend. Richard Bowden is the President of Music City Texas Theater and grew up with Don Henley. He played at this same building as a youth with Don with a band called The Four Speeds. I actually have a tape of those early recordings, what a hoot! But at the same time, what TALENT!
I'll brag on Richard for a while since he went on to play lead guitar with such greats as Linda Ronstadt, was part of the comedy team Pickard & Bowden, and now him and his wife our Head King and Queens of The PUlpwood Queens of Linden, Texas. Talk about promoting literacy in a big and fun way!
So if you want to purchase one of these CD's or a Moon & the Starz t-shirt, contact Richard Bowden at www.musiccitytexas.org.
Next weekend they are hosting Hal Ketchum and June 20, 21, 22, for the 3rd Annual T-Bone Walker Blues Fest and they even have Delbert McClinton coming just 15 minutes from Beauty and the Book in Linden, Texas. I'll have a full report tomorrow!
Friday, February 15, 2008
The Pulpwood Queen Book Events Continue!
Dear Readers,Here are the following speaking, reading , book signing events coming up. I hope that you can spread the word and join me at the events!
Tiara wearing and Book sharing,
Kathy L. Patrick
Founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs
Beauty and the Book
608 North Polk Street
Jefferson, Texas 75657
903-665-7520
www.beautyandthebook.com
www.southernauthors.blogspot.com
www.hachettebookgroupusa.com
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Monday, February 25
| 6:00 PM | Reading/signing 101 W. Hiram Contact: Kim 903-796-2112 mim6565@aol.com NOTE: Kathy will sell books herself at the event. |
April 15th
6:30 PM MT. PLEASANT PUBLIC LIBRARY
Speaking/Booksigning
Friday, April 18
| 12:00 PM to 1:20 PM | Closing Luncheon Speaker Contact: Ruth Semrau 903-843-5001 resemrau@yahoo.com |
Saturday, April 19
| 12:45 PM arrival 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM | BORDERS Reading/Signing Contact: Carlo Rich 214-363-1977 crich@bordersgroupinc.com |
CARTHAGE, TEXAS
Thursday, April 24th
2:00 PM CARTHAGE BOOK CLUB
Speaking/Book Signing
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