Summerville residents Shari Stauch, co-owner of Main Street Reads, and Kathryn Taylor, author of the Kirkus “Best of 2018” memoir Two Minus One, traveled to Jefferson, Texas this weekend for the 19th annual Pulpwood Queens Girlfriend Weekend, put on by the amazing Pulpwood Queen herself, the talented and inimitable Kathy L. Murphy!
What are the Pulpwood Queens? Picture this: hundreds of book club members from across the country, all gathered in one giant ballroom, geeking out on books for an entire weekend.
Kathryn Taylor, Tim Conroy and Shari Stauch Painting by Kathy Murphy – gorgeous! Kathy Murphy, Shari Stauch and Bren McClain
Lowcountry celebs also spotted at PQ2019: Bren McClain, author of One Good Mama Bone, the 2018 Bookclub Selection of the Year (formerly of Charleston, now hangs her cowboy hat in Nashville, TN); Jonathan Haupt, director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center in Beaufort, SC, and Nicole Seitz, Mt. Pleasant,
Main Street Reads will be featuring a Pulpwood Queens