Good Morning my fellow book travelers! Paul Roberson, my Executive Director and I are madly trying to get everybody on board as we begin our passport to reading around the world with all of you! Please help us authors get all your author friends and fan base on board and Pulpwood Queens, have your book club members join individually or as your own book club chapter. We are now a totally inclusive book club. We want everyone to experience just how much fun we have in our 25 years of reading, soon 26. From the get-go the media has covered us from being featured on Oprah Winfrey's OXYGEN NETWORK, The Oprah Winfrey Show, a full three-page in color feature on "The Tastemakers" by Mary McNamara in The Los Angeles Times to features in print such as The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, time and many, many more. All of this happened because this small girl from Kansas grew up with her nose stuck in a book and daily trips to The Eureka Carnegie Library. You see, books saved me, and you can read all about it in my first book and memoir, "The Pulpwood Queens Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" by Kathy L. Murphy and now working on its sequel, "Kathy L. Murphy Big Book Love, my continuing story of how books keep saving me. This book club has always been about having fun, thus tiaras were mandatory and reading good books was the only year. But we have grown up through the years and truly understand just how much authors, books, literacy, and reading help us to be enlightened, educated, and entertained. So many of our books have gone to film through the ages beginning with our very first book, "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya" Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells. Many authors we read first books and have now gone on to New York Times Bestselling authors, such as Jamie Ford, Lisa Wingate, Alice Hoffman, Adriana Trigiani, and so many, many more. Won't you join us today and get all your bookloving friend and fellow authors on board too. Here we go, onward and upward and do note! It's all about the stories, our authors, yours, mine, and ours!

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL AUTHORS listed below as it takes me a full year to read and select from the hundreds and hundreds of books sent to me by authors, publishers, publishers and more for consideration for their book or books to be selected for a full year of our Passport to Reading Around the World. Since our beginning with six complete strangers coming to join my original chapter of my book club, The Pulpwood Queens of East Texas in 2000, we have evolved to be one of the largest International Book Clubs in the World. We rebranded our name for our 25th Anniversary to Kathy L. Murphy Big Book Love as it was time authors and readers to get serious about our reading. We are on a mission and have been the get go to promote authors, books, literacy and reading around the world. I think BIG and DREAM that one day our world through the process of reading become the world we want to live and be in, We have joined hands around the globe to build bridges of understanding that reading is important, that we can learn about other peoples, cultures, and mindsets to find that we are more alike than we have differences. Don't judge a book by it's cover, read it then share those stories to have conversations. We are life-long learners and now we have "gone back to school", our one stop shop site of SKOOL! JOIN TODAY and don't forget to JOIN on Facebook our Kathy L. Murphy Big Book Love group page and SUBSCRIBE to the Kathy L. Murphy Big Book Love YouTube Channel as I will be reporting there as we transition to this site SKOOL! I cannot thank my webmaster, Paul Roberson enough and he is creating video content to learn all our pages and Authors, you are going to be amazed on how much information we can send our around the world on your books. We welcome all readers, all book groups, podcasters, we truly want to be a one shop shop of connecting our hands and hearts to what we all know can change the world. Books that keep on giving now share, share, share and important to join our Facebook and YouTube Channel as we need a way to get all the information we have been working on this past year to all of you!

Hello my name is Paul Roberson and I am introducing myself to the community for everyone who doesn't already know who I am. I have been the webmaster and assistant of Kathy's for the last 15 years in her old book club The Pulpwood Queens. I am working with Kathy to host her new author community Big Book Love. I hope you see the value of being apart of this community and I will always be here to help anyone if they have questions about the Skool platform. As Kathy always proclaims... Onward and Upward!! Paul Roberson

Breaking News: Kathy L. Murphy Big Book Love is pleased to present our first 2025 Offical Books of the Year Award Winners, followed by the Official 2026 Books of the Year. 2025 Official International Books of the Year Winners Fiction Book of the Year (It's a tie): When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary by Alice Hoffman War Bug: A Novel by Henry G. Brinton Non-Fiction Book of the Year: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari Bonus Books of the Month (it's a tie): Feeling Your Way Through Grief: A Companion for Life after Loss by Missy Buchanan The Kindred Project: a collaborative collection of poetry and prose by J. Raymond The Doug Marlette Award goes to Author Sara Stamey for a lifetime of promoting authors, books, literacy, and reading. The Kathy L Murphy Big Book Love Award goes to authors who have gone beyond the call to support me this past year: Kathryn Casey, Jamie Ford, Anju Gattani, Abbott Kahler, Suzanne Kamata, Cassandra Conroy King, Marian Simon Rothstein, Adriana Trigiani, and Carol Van Den Hende. Congratulations from the bottom of my heart to ALL the winners, to The Pulpwood Queen. You need to know that the books I read and select are all so hard to narrow down each year to the essence of excellence in story telling no matter the genre. Keep going and do not forget to send me your latest books. The ONLY way I can select them is I have to read them. If you do not have my address, send me your book or books as soon as you can to be considered for our 2027 selected reads to thepulpwoodqueen@gmail.com. All books that are not selected are given to librarians, librarys, and Little Free Libraries. A book given is a gift that keeps on giving so pass your books on too and be good stewards in your communities.

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