Last weekend, members of Pulpwood Queens Book Club chapters nationwide and more than 40 authors gathered in Nacogdoches, Tex., for the 15th annual Girlfriend Weekend. The event was co-hosted by bookseller and club founder Kathy Murphy (who wrote The Pulpwood Queen's Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life) and author Jamie Ford (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Songs of Willow Frost). Pictured above: book club members and authors who competed in this year's Tiara Making Contest.
KTRE-TV noted that "soon a Hollywood star will portray this fun loving East Texan in a movie." Executive producer Lauren Taylor and screenwriter Clare Sera, who have "cut a film deal with DreamWorks Entertainment," were on hand to observe Kathy Murphy's reading extravaganza.
"It's not really about a book group, but really about the stories that are shared not only in the books that they read, but the stories of their own personal lives that they share with one another," said Taylor.
Added Sera: "We're here to absolutely capture the details and the spirit of Pulpwood Queens that's absolutely blowing me away."
"You do the thing you believe in, good things will come, and that's what happened," Murphy said. "Our dreams came true."
