http://www.dogcanyon.org/2010/01/28/the-best-book-fest-in-deep-east-tx/ Politics, Opinion and Culture, for Texas and Beyond Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:14:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.dogcanyon.org/2010/01/28/the-best-book-fest-in-deep-east-tx/comment-page-1/#comment-2047 Cyndi Hughes Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:09:19 +0000 http://www.dogcanyon.org/?p=4127#comment-2047 I stand corrected; Miss Kathy Patrick is DEFINITELY in the know! Pulpwood Queens 4-EVER! I stand corrected; Miss Kathy Patrick is DEFINITELY in the know! Pulpwood Queens 4-EVER!

]]> http://www.dogcanyon.org/2010/01/28/the-best-book-fest-in-deep-east-tx/comment-page-1/#comment-2019 Glenn W. Smith Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:48:26 +0000 http://www.dogcanyon.org/?p=4127#comment-2019 I can't believe I haven't already attended your extraordinary festival. See ya next year. I can’t believe I haven’t already attended your extraordinary festival. See ya next year.

]]> http://www.dogcanyon.org/2010/01/28/the-best-book-fest-in-deep-east-tx/comment-page-1/#comment-2015 Kathy L. Patrick Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:03:39 +0000 http://www.dogcanyon.org/?p=4127#comment-2015 Cyndi, I love ya like a sister but guess what? We now have 265 Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys chapters that run from Alaska to Florida, New York to California and everywhere inbetween PLUS members and chapters in NINE foreign countries. We had 27 chapters represented during our Girlfriend Weekend with closer to 1,000 women who went through all the events and activities that were book promoting inspired. Our 10th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend was magical for me this year. I have been trying to get Pat Conroy to East Texas for over 20 years. Check that item on my bucket list but the GOOD NEWS. He has declared that Girlfriend Weekend changed his life and has announced he will be back next year. In fact, more queens than I can count and timber guys have told me they will be back in droves and they are bringing more book club members and friends with them. Girlfriend Weekend may be in my small town of "Mayberry on the Bayou" meets "A Wonderful Life", but we don't have any big city sponsorship like the Texas Book Festival. In fact, I have to sponsor the event myself to pull it off. But what we have is I think the beginning of a new era in book festivals. Participatory. That means everybody who comes participates in all the events including the authors. I still am amazed that I convinced nearly 40 authors to don aprons and wait on tables during our Author Dinner at the Excelsior Hotel. I must have had a dozen women email me they never dreamed in their life that Pat Conroy would be serving them Sweet Tea, but the authors loved it too. Won't you all reading this please come and join the fastest growing book club in the world, The Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys. Cyndi is right, Jefferson, Texas is the perfect place for this event as so much to do here that will help you and your friends create memories to last a lifetime. Go to www.beautyandthebook.com and click on Pulpwood Queens to read about joining up. For you see if you are a member,(once a member, you're a member for life), this qualifies you for the Early Bird Special of $150 for the two days of author panels and two nights of entertainment and more! We sold out this year and I assure you we will sell out next year! For the seven galleries of photos go to www.easttexastowns.com or my daily blog at www.pulpwoodqueen.com! After this weekend we have decided that Austin may have the slogan, Keep Austin Weird, but Jefferson has one too, Keep Jefferson Quirky! Long live the PUlpwood Queens and may they and the Timber Guys reign for ever when it comes to promtoing authors, books, reading, and literacy all over this world while having some BIG TIME FUN! And just remember, our claim to fame besides being on Good Morning America, Oprah, Time, Newsweek, Texas Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times pales in comparison to know that the whole shebang started here in EAST TEXAS! And isn't like we always say here, everything is bigger and better in TEXAS! Tiara wearing and Book sharing, Kathy L. Patrick Author of "The Pulwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life", Grand Central Publishing Founder of the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs Cyndi, I love ya like a sister but guess what? We now have 265 Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys chapters that run from Alaska to Florida, New York to California and everywhere inbetween PLUS members and chapters in NINE foreign countries. We had 27 chapters represented during our Girlfriend Weekend with closer to 1,000 women who went through all the events and activities that were book promoting inspired.
Our 10th Anniversary Girlfriend Weekend was magical for me this year. I have been trying to get Pat Conroy to East Texas for over 20 years. Check that item on my bucket list but the GOOD NEWS. He has declared that Girlfriend Weekend changed his life and has announced he will be back next year. In fact, more queens than I can count and timber guys have told me they will be back in droves and they are bringing more book club members and friends with them.
Girlfriend Weekend may be in my small town of “Mayberry on the Bayou” meets “A Wonderful Life”, but we don’t have any big city sponsorship like the Texas Book Festival. In fact, I have to sponsor the event myself to pull it off. But what we have is I think the beginning of a new era in book festivals. Participatory. That means everybody who comes participates in all the events including the authors. I still am amazed that I convinced nearly 40 authors to don aprons and wait on tables during our Author Dinner at the Excelsior Hotel. I must have had a dozen women email me they never dreamed in their life that Pat Conroy would be serving them Sweet Tea, but the authors loved it too.
Won’t you all reading this please come and join the fastest growing book club in the world, The Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys. Cyndi is right, Jefferson, Texas is the perfect place for this event as so much to do here that will help you and your friends create memories to last a lifetime. Go to http://www.beautyandthebook.com and click on Pulpwood Queens to read about joining up. For you see if you are a member,(once a member, you’re a member for life), this qualifies you for the Early Bird Special of $150 for the two days of author panels and two nights of entertainment and more! We sold out this year and I assure you we will sell out next year! For the seven galleries of photos go to http://www.easttexastowns.com or my daily blog at http://www.pulpwoodqueen.com!
After this weekend we have decided that Austin may have the slogan, Keep Austin Weird, but Jefferson has one too, Keep Jefferson Quirky! Long live the PUlpwood Queens and may they and the Timber Guys reign for ever when it comes to promtoing authors, books, reading, and literacy all over this world while having some BIG TIME FUN! And just remember, our claim to fame besides being on Good Morning America, Oprah, Time, Newsweek, Texas Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times pales in comparison to know that the whole shebang started here in EAST TEXAS! And isn’t like we always say here, everything is bigger and better in TEXAS!
Tiara wearing and Book sharing,
Kathy L. Patrick
Author of “The Pulwood Queens’ Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life”, Grand Central Publishing
Founder of the Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs

]]> http://www.dogcanyon.org/2010/01/28/the-best-book-fest-in-deep-east-tx/comment-page-1/#comment-2004 Reba Saxon Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:11:34 +0000 http://www.dogcanyon.org/?p=4127#comment-2004 I can't wait to go next year! Thanks for the travel tip for those of us with books and hair as perennial sources of spent energy... I can’t wait to go next year! Thanks for the travel tip for those of us with books and hair as perennial sources of spent energy…

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