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Monday, February 19, 2007
INTRODUCING “TIMBER GUY OF THE YEAR”, J. BROOKS DANN!
Girlfriend Weekend 2007 has come and gone and I decided that I would finally, (after recovering from too much fun), write about the experience. Then author, J. Brooks Dann started sending me his blog reports on the weekend. I, as always, if labeled prefer “reader” and read is exactly what I did when those Girlfriend Weekend report blogs started rolling in. I laughed until I cried. I also love a man’s take on Girlfriend Weekend. I have copied and pasted in his first report. After reading his highly humorous first report may I suggest you now go to his blog site direct to read all the following reports at: http://www.jbrooksdann.com/. There are many more and each one is a hoot! They had me laughing so loud that my teenagers came clamoring down the stairs to see exactly why their mother was in stitches. Maybe all you guys who are secure in your masculinity and are literacy supporters will now join us in our book loving fun. We are an equal opportunity book club. We just cannot seem to get many guys to join our book club. Don’t let the name Pulpwood Queens fool you. We could just as easily be The Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs. We just have to get more than like ten male members in our hundreds of chapters nationwide and worldwide now too!
So read Jeremy’s take below and if you like what you read, check out J. Brooks Dann’s first novel “Anecdotal”. You heard it from me first. Here is a writer and talent to watch. I also might mention I am not alone in my admiration of Jeremy’s work. He was voted by the most applause at our Girlfriend Weekend HAIR BALL, TIMBER GUY OF THE YEAR! He had some pretty stiff competition but his singing me “Lady” sent the audience into a thunderous round of applause!
Bowing to the feet of our NEW KING, introducing J. BROOKS DANN!
Tiara wearing, Timber Guy of the Year and book sharing, Kathy L. Patrick Founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club P.S. Go to my website HOME page to view photos of our Girlfriend Weekend and of J. Brooks Dann, TIMBER GUY OF THE YEAR!
Girlfriend Weekend: My Pulpwood Queen Odyssey Begins
I first met Kathy Patrick, doyenne of the teeming book club known as the Pulpwood Queens, at the Book Group Expo in San Jose last summer. Kathy was hard to miss: she was the only person wearing a tiara. It was a little strange, because, as everyone in the Bay Area knows, you never wear a tiara before Labor Day.
Kathy’s Pulpwood Queen chapters span Texas, the southeast and several other states, a virtual literary empire sending tribute to the seat of power in Jefferson, Texas. Actually, there are several seats of power, since Kathy’s headquarters is a book store/beauty parlor featuring a multitude of seats for the requisite shampooing, cutting, drying, dyeing and other assorted and sundry activities. But don’t let the bottles of Paul Mitchell shampoos and platinum dyes fool ya: the Pulpwood Queens are a serious literary force, features in tons of publications and even on ABC’s Good Morning America.
I was flattered when Kathy invited me to be one of the featured authors at the “Girlfriend Weekend,” the yearly book and bouffant bash that attracts hundreds of Pulpwood Queens. Pretty much all I knew about the Girlfriend Weekend was from this photo.
But then again, that’s pretty much all I needed to know. I loaded up a couple boxes of books, a pack of Sharpie and hit the road to Marshall, the East Texas town hosting the mega-event.
What happened over the next three days shook me to my core.
More to follow.
Check out the rest of the Jeremy’s blogs on the weekend by going to: http://www.jbrooksdann.com/
