Kathy

Kathy L. Patrick

My life is about to be an open book. Yes, coming soon to a bookstore near you is my story 'The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life' to be published by Warner Books. This is my story on how books saved me, the story of Beauty and the Book, The Pulpwood Queens, and why I am on a mission to get the world reading. My book will also be a resource book for readers and book clubs containing lists of my favorite books and of course, all of our Pulpwood Queen Book Club Selections. It is kind of a one-stop shop for anyone who loves books and reading. My book will debut January 1, 2008 and then you will be able to read all about my life in the wonderful world of books. In the meantime, below is my bio.

Kathy L. Patrick's VITA

Born August 27, 1956 at the Greenwood County Hospital in Eureka, Kansas.

Graduated May 1974 from Eureka High School in Eureka, Kansas.

Attended the following schools and universities starting in 1974 and continuing forever, I am a lifelong learner!

Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Crum’s Beauty College, Manhattan, Kansas, graduated June 1977
Butler County Community Junior College, Eureka, Kansas campus
Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas
Grossmont College, La Mesa (San Diego), California
Panola College, Jefferson, Texas campus
Texarkana College, Texarkana, Texas
Texas A & M University, Jefferson, Texas campus

I have accumulated 144 hours with a double major in art and geology from the above universities.

My past occupations include: Lifeguard for Eureka Country Club in Eureka, Kansas, lifeguard and rangerette for Fall River State Park in Fall River, Kansas, hair stylist in Manhattan, Lawrence, and Emporia, Kansas, owner/stylist of Town & Country Headquarters hair salon In Eureka, Kansas, work study secretary for anthropology department at Grossmont College in La Mesa, California, counter manager for Elizabeth Arden at May Company in San Diego, California, manager of The Haywood House, an art gallery, gift shop, and dinner theater in Jefferson, Texas, owner of Heart of Pine Cottage Bed & Breakfast in Jefferson, Texas, children’s manager/buyer for an independent bookstore in Longview, Texas and Shreveport, Louisiana, and book publisher’s representative up until I opened Beauty and the Book.

I am the proud recipient of the Lucille Micheel Pannell award given annually for outstanding children’s programming. I won the award, both in 1993 and 1995, and as far as I know, I am the only two-time winner awarded by The Women’s National Book Association at The American Bookseller’s Convention. Just recently, I was one of the winners of The James Patterson PageTurner 2006 PageTurner Awards, www.pattersonpageturner.org

I have been a featured speaker at:

American Bookseller's Association Convention
Mid-South Independent Booksellers Association
Louisiana Association of College Stores
The Texas Book Festival
Piney Woods Reading Council
Texas Historical Foundation
Main Street America
East Texas Writer's Association Convention
Landon Review Weekend
Northeast Texas Library Association

In addition, I have been a speaker at numerous civic organizations, not-for-profits, and book clubs.

I have been featured in many newspapers including:

The Jefferson Jimplecute
The Marshall News Messenger
The Longview News Journal
The Dallas Morning News
The Houston Chronicle
The Shreveport Times
The Texarkana Gazette
The Austin-Statesman
The Los Angeles Times
The Toledo Blade
The Sun-Sentinel
The New York Sun
The Miami Herald
The Washington Post
Variety
The New York Daily
The Wall Street Journal

I have been chosen in the past to do “Pick of the Lists” for American Bookseller Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, and currently writing galley reviews for Publishers Weekly “Galley Talk.

I have been featured in the following magazines:

October 1995 issue of Working Woman magazine
March/April 2000 issue of John Grisham's Oxford American magazine
June 2000 issue of Southern Living
American Salon magazine (twice)
D (Dallas) magazine
Publisher’s Weekly
Ingram’s Beyond the Cover magazine
International Paper's UNITY magazine
October 2001 Book magazine
October 2001 Texas Monthly magazine
December 2001 Book Magazine
December 2001 Southern Living
April 2002 Modern Salon
Texas Monthly
Texas Highways
PW Daily online newsletters
Time Magazine
Newsweek Magazine
All You magazine
2002 Southern Living Favorites Special Issue : Our Best 202 Things About the South
Southern Lady Magazine
Pages Magazine
East Texas Connection Magazine
July/August 2006 issue Texas Journeys - The Magazine for AAA Texas Members
Modern Salon
Town Square Magazine

I have been featured on the following network and cable television shows:

April 2001, Oprah Winfrey’s OXYGEN cable television how entitled 'Dallas Style' that also featured a vintage clothing store in Austin, Lady Primrose's Tea Room in Dallas, and new and upcoming singing group Destiny's Child with Beyonce’ from Houston, Texas.
September 2001, Bob Phillip's The Texas Country Reporter. The Pulpwood Queens were invited to be part of Bob Phillips Texas Country Reporter Festival November 2001 that marked the anniversary of his 30th year on the air and again featured in 2003.
March 12, 2003, Good Morning America LIVE with Diane Sawyer and Charlie Gipson.
April 22, 2003, The Pulpwood Queens were featured yet again on Good Morning America.
May 2003, GMA covered The Pulpwood Queens participating with The Women in the Outdoors event sponsored by The National Wild Turkey Federation on a show that never aired.
March 12, 2003, featured on both the ABC affiliates out of Shreveport and Tyler/Jacksonville/ Longview.
May 16th, 2003, featured on CBS affiliate out of Shreveport, Channel 12.
Time/Warner Cable 6 'Heart of Shreveport' television show I have been featured three times.
Featured Fox's cable station out of Monroe, Louisiana
October 2004, KSLA Channel 6 out of Shreveport, LA did a feature on their Family Focus on Education with the author, Linda Bloodworth Thomason.
June 2005, Featured on all area affiliate networks with Governor Incumbent, Kinky Friedman.
July 2006, Featured on KSLA Channel 6 with Kinky Friedman
January 2007 featured on the NEW cable television show, “Windshield America” with the Fine Living Cable Network.

I have been featured on the following radio stations:
NPR’s RED RIVER RADIO
KTAK
KYKX
KISS Country Radio
MSN’s Newsweek radio LIVE

I have been featured in the following films and documentaries:
“Book Tour”, documentary on the book tour of author Andy Behrman of “Electroboy”.
“City of Spirits: The Hauntings of Jefferson, Texas”

I have been featured in the following books:
The Apple Orchard Bed & Breakfast by Ron and Caryl McAdoo
Eccentric America by Jan Friedman
Bookstore Tourism by Larry Portzline
Girl Group Confidential by Jennifer Worick

I am former columnist for East Texas People Magazine, R.S.V.P. magazine, and Viva East Texas magazine.

Currently, I have joined in partnership with the Texas Living editor of Southern Living Magazine, Gary Ford’s new website presence, “The Southern Living Texas Book Club” to report “What the Pulpwood Queens are Reading” at www.southernliving.com/ilovetexas.

Organizations:
Past Board member and officer of Mid-South Independent Booksellers for Children
Former board member of The Opera House Players Theater Group

Member of the Jefferson Historical Museum
Former board member of the not-for-profit Rural Arts for All
Literacy Chair and Public Relation Chair for the the Jefferson Rotary Club
District Public Relations Chair for Rotary International.
Former Girl Scout Junior Troop #470 Leader and Girl Scout Brownie Scout Assistant Leader
Choir member of The First United Methodist Church and periodically does the children’s sermons.
Marshall Regional Arts Council member
Marion County Chamber of Commerce, past board member and member.
President of the American Book Club Association
Founder of The Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs, the largest “meeting and discussing” book club in the world.

I currently plan and do the program for three annual book festivals:

Books Alive!, a Christian and Inspirational Book Festival, held the first weekend in November in Jefferson, Texas
Pulpwood Queen 'Girlfriend Weekend', held the third weekend in January in Marshall, Texas
International Book Club Author Extravaganza, held the second weekend in July in Shreveport, Louisiana.

I live just outside of historic Jefferson, Texas in the piney woods with my husband Jay, two daughters, Helaina and Madeleine with our three dogs and four cats.