"Hundreds of tiara-wearing women" from Pulpwood Queens Book Club chapters (more than 650 nationwide in 15 countries) have are arriving in Nacogdoches, Tex., today for the start of the 15th annual Girlfriend Weekend. Bookseller and Pulpwood Queens founder Kathy Murphy, who owns Beauty and the Book Hair Salon in Hawkins, launched the original book club in 2000 "with six strangers, with this motto: Where tiaras are mandatory and reading good books is the rule," More than 40 authors, whose books have been read by the Pulpwood Queens, will participate in the three-day event.
"We don't take ourselves very seriously. We want to have fun reading books. Books to us are the highest form of entertainment," Murphy said. "These Pulpwood Queens are much more than the book club members, they're my tribe."
Nacogdoches Main Street manager Sarah O'Brien added: "We got 80 hot pink prom dresses in shop windows. One of our stores has actually created a take-home bookmark project that the Pulpwood Queens can come in the store and actually make the bookmark and take it home with them."
