Program is FINISHED for our 15th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend as follows, well, everything is subject to change due to circumstances beyond my control, hahahaa! 15th ANNIVERSARY GIRLFRIEND WEEKEND AUTHOR EXTRAVAGANZA Around the World with Books, your Passport to Reading! January 15 – 18, 2015 Mast Hall 317 East Main Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Come by Train, Plane, or Automobile!! Travel to our City of Choice, Nacogdoches, Texas for our 15th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend! The Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs are proud to present our annual literary celebration, which we call Girlfriend Weekend, to showcase our Official reads; past, present, and future. I have chosen for our theme this year, AROUND THE WORLD WITH BOOKS! Pulpwood Queen Memberships and V.I.P. Packages for members at this time are available to purchase on our Official website, beautyandthebook. For more information, email: thepulpwoodqueen@gmail or call 903-601-2725, or if no answer leave me a message on how to contact you! Almost SOLD OUT so hurry! THURSDAY NIGHT 7:00 P.M. Doors open at Mast Hall for our ALL ABOARD AUTHOR DINNER, separate ticketed event featuring: KEYNOTE SPEAKER KIM SUNEE, bestselling author of Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home, a Pulpwood Queens Official Selection and of the newly-released book, A Mouthful of Stars: A Constellation of Favorite Recipes from My World Travels featuring all our STARS, our AUTHORS, who will be there to serve you in their unique costumes as we fly the friendly skies of Pulpwood Queen Book Queendom! The Pulpwood Queen V.I.P. Package includes the following: V.I.P Hot Pink Band that when shown on your wrist gets you into ALL Friday/Saturday events: Friday All Day Author Panels Friday Night DANCING IN THE STREETS BLOCK PARTY Special Screening of the film, BLENDED with Screenwriter, CLARE SERA! Saturday All Day Panels Saturday Night AROUND THE WORLD WITH BOOKS themed GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR BALL! Official 15th Anniversary Pulpwood Queen Girlfriend Weekend 2015 T-shirt. Pulpwood Queen SWAG Bag plus publisher books, galleys, and giveaways including copies of Faerie Magazine and Piney Woods Magazine with a great feature on The Pulpwood Queens! January 15th, Thursday 2015 GIRLFRIEND WEEKEND OFFICIALLY BEGINS! 1:00 p.m. Registration at the City of Nacogdoches Tourism Building, 200 East Main Street, Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 936-564-7351, pick up your Pulpwood Queen packets here! 7:00 p.m. Mast Hall ALL ABOARD AUTHOR DINNER, KEYNOTE SPEAKER KIM SUNEE of Trail of Crumbs and A Mouthful of Stars: A Constellation of Favorite Recipes from my World Travels featuring all our STARS, our AUTHORS, who will be there to serve you in their unique costumes as we fly the friendly skies of Pulpwood Queen Book Queendom! January 16– 17, 2015 FRIDAY AND SATURDAY All authors featured at their times will immediately go to AUTHOR AUTOGRAPH TABLE at the VENDOR/BOOK STORE area in the back of Mast Hall following their panel. Attendees will need to pre-purchase books prior to having the books signed. As all authors are encouraged to participate in all activities, feel free to ask for books to be signed by authors throughout the weekend. But do note, some authors will not be able to stay, alas…To ensure you get your books signed, go immediately to the AUTHOR AUTOGRAPH TABLES after they speak and have books already pre-purchased and ready to sign. Murder By The Book of Houston, Texas will provide the BOOK STORE for all the author books for the event. 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. A SILENT AUCTION will be held with showcased items signed and donated by all our authors at the front window area of Mast Hall. Proceeds from the SILENT AUCTION will go to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library Literacy Project, (The Pulpwood Queens Book Club endorses this literacy project as our charity of choice). and to our other literacy promoting endeavors. All authors featured donate a signed object that ties in with their books for this literary promoting fundraiser. FRIDAY MORNING 8:00 a.m. REGISTRATION at the City of Nacogdoches Tourism Building located in center of historic downtown square. 9:00 a.m. Mast Hall 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 will welcome you to our 15th Anniversary along with her co-host, New York Times Bestselling Author, JAMIE FORD, of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Songs of Willow Frost: A Novel. 9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Welcome to Girlfriend Weekend AROUND THE WORLD WITH BOOKS! DIANNE DIXON of The Book of Someday TRACY GUZEMAN of The Gravity of Birds KRISTEN HARNISCH of The Vintner’s Daughter BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOK STORE 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. LEILA MEACHAM of Somerset MARCI NAULT of The Lake House ANN WEISGARBER of The Promise BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOK STORE 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. ASHTON LEE of The Reading Circle JUDY CHRISTIE of Magnolia Market, (Trumpet and Vine) KELLIE COATES GILBERT of A Woman of Fortune CARLA STEWART of The Hat Maker’s Heart: A Novel BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOK STORE 12:00 p.m. Noon LUNCH ON YOUR OWN (historic Nacogdoches, Texas has many fine eateries, many within walking distance) FRIDAY AFTERNOON 1:30 p.m. – 2:15 a.m. KAREN ABBOTT of Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy KATHY HEPINSTALL and BECKY HEPINSTALL of Sisters of Shiloh GABRIELLE ZEVIN of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry: A Novel BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOK STORE 2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. KATHI APPELT of Mogie, The Heart of the House KERRY MADDEN of Offsides CAROLYN TURGEON of Mermaid and Editor of FAERIE Magazine BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOK STORE 3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. CHRISTA ALLAN of Test of Faith HOLLY JOY BOWDEN of Mrs. Hyde CARYL MCADOO of Vow Unbroken BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOK STORE 4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. KATHRYN CASEY of Deliver Us JOE HOLLEY of The Purse Bearer: A Novel of Love, Lust, and Texas Politics REAVIS Z.WORTHAM of Vengeance is Mine: A Red River Mystery 5:15 p.m. Our last authors will be in AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOK STORE ROOM with closing remarks by KATHY L. MURPHY! FRIDAY EVENING 6:00 p.m. Dancing in the Streets Block Party, downtown historic Nacogdoches, Texas, Special Photo Booth with Kathy and Becky Hepinstall, followed by SCREENING of the film BLENDED starring Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler with introduction by screenwriter, CLARE SERA. Stick around after the film for Question and Answer with CLARE SERA and also meet a very SPECIAL SURPRISE GUEST! January 19, 2013 SATURDAY MORNING 8:00 a.m. REGISTRATION 9:00 a.m. KATHY L. PATRICK and JAMIE FORD are back as your hosts! 9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and now Senior Editor at Newsday, BILL DEDMAN, will speak of his book Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of HUGUETTE CLARK and the Spending of a Great American Fortune! BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOK STORE 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. SAM BARRY representing his late wife and author, KATHI KAMEN GOLDMARK of Her Wild Oats HOLLY MICHAEL of Crooked Lines: A Novel JONI RODGERS of Part Swan, Part Goose: An Uncommon Memoir of Womanhood, Work, and Family by SWOOZIE KURTZ with JONI RODGERS! BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOK STORE 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. STEPHANIE CHANCE of Mamma Mia, Americans “Invade” Italy: True Stories of The Americana in Italy! ANDREW CONN LEWIS OF O’ Africa M.L. MALCOM of The Cuban Connection BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOK STORE 12:00 Noon (Lunch at the fine eateries of Nacogdoches) 1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. PAT MONTANDON of Peeing on Hot Coals: A Memoir SEAN WILSEY of More Curious BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING AND VENDOR/BOOK STORE 2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. LISA WINGATE of The Story Keeper MARTHA LOUISE HUNTER of Painting Juliana: A Novel KAREN WHITE of A Long Time Gone and Grand Central: Original Stories of Postwar Love and Reunion 3:30 p.m. Break, as we know it gets crazy towards the end to rush out and get ready for the ball. It’s almost your last chance to buy books if you want to get them signed before the closing panel and Awards Presentation! Don’t miss this opportunity to purchase the authors books while they are still at the convention center. Our Book Store will be open too after Awards Ceremony! 3:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. JENNIE HELDERMAN of as the sycamore grows RIVER JORDAN of Confessions of An American Mystic: A Story of Faith and Fire and Fiction SHELLIE RUSHING TOMLINSON of Heart Wide Open LAST BREAK FOR AUTOGRAPHING/VENDOR/BOOK STORE 4:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Awards Presentation as follows: Pulpwood Queen Children’s Book of the Year Pulpwood Queen Bonus Book of the Year Pulpwood Queen Book of the Year KATHY L. MURPHY to present The KAT Award Special Presentation: THE DOUG MARLETTE AWARD presented to an individual for the Lifetime Achievement of Promoting Literacy. 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, for your winning item payable to: Beauty and the Book as you pick up your winning bid item! 5:30 p.m. Time to Say Goodbye… Final remarks from KATHY L. MURPHY and JAMIE FORD as we announce the theme for our for next year’s event and conclude our weekend’s presentation of AUTHORS! VENDOR/BOOK STORE ROOM Closes at 6:00 p.m. SATURDAY EVENING 8:00 p.m. GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR BALL with our costume theme ALL AROUND THE WORLD WITH BOOKS! Each costumed Attendee and Authors will be formally introduced this year as they enter for our “GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR” BALL at Pulpwood Queen Vicki Rudisell’s PARTY BARN just outside of Nac, (map in Registration bag). Come dressed as your favorite World or Book Theme character and compete for BEST THEMED GIRL GROUP, BEST THEMED TABLE DECORATING CONTEST, and BEST INDIVIDUAL MALE/FEMALE THEMED COSTUME FOR TIMBER GUY OF THE YEAR AND HAIR BALL QUEEN! Have your cameras ready! 15th Anniversary Cake and punch will be served, B.Y.O. B and SPECIAL SURPRISE GUESTS who will be our JUDGES for contests! For more information on any of the above information, please email: thepulpwoodqueen@gmail or call Beauty and the Book at 903-769-3400. Membership and packages may be purchased at beautyandthebook. Pulpwood Queen Packages can be picked up at Registration booth at the Nacogdoches Visitors Center when you arrive! The final program will be in your Registration Packets. All information in the program could be subject to change due to circumstances beyond our control. All memberships and tickets are non-refundable.
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