We just had our first coffee Hour Meetup and some fantastic ideas have been spun out of them. The idea I want to work on is this? I would like to start having regional Virtual Coffee Hour Meetups so that the Authors in certain regions of the country can come together and become friends. Every time a new author joins us we can direct them to the regional meetups so they can start building relationships with authors near them. Also regional meetup events can be done by Big Book Love Regional Leaders. The second idea is to start having Virtual Coffee Hour Meetups for Genres that authors write in so that you guys can mastermind together with authors writing what you are writing. Before we can start this, there is some information that we need to get from you guys. 1. What genre is your main genre you write in? 2. Would you be interested in these localized virtual meetups and genre specific meetups? 3. What days and times are best for you to get online for these meetups? 4. Would you be interested in becoming a Virtual Coffee Hour Regional Leader? Regional Leaders would be made into moderators for the community and you would have the ability to host these meetups right here in our live call zoom room. I would train each Regional Leader so that you understand how the software works. Just throwing this idea out there to gauge interest. Comment below your answers so we can begin to figure how to make this work for the most amount of people.+ Paul Roberson Community Executive Director https://www.bigbooklove.com/paul-l-roberson/

This is the recording of our first coffee hour meetup. Thank you to everyone who could make it as the conversation was fantastic! To everyone who came, please be sure to link your Website, Youtube Channels and Books for all of us to find!

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!

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 [email protected]. 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.

Hello Big Book Lovers! I just wanted to announce that we will be having our 26th anniversary celebration for the Pulpwood Queen's Book Club rebranded now to the Big Book Love Author Community today on Sunday January 18th at 6:00 PM Central time. In years past we would be at a live Girlfriend Weekend book festival during this weekend but as we transition into the new Big Book Love Author Community, we are putting that event on hold. Once we get the entire community on the new platform, we will discuss more about reviving Girlfriend Weekend. We want to invite all old and new members to join us right here in our Skool community via a live group zoom meeting. The link to join is https://www.skool.com/live/Z8zkpC9Qxws If you are going to join us, you will have to be inside Skool either on your laptop or on the Skool mobile app. Please invite anyone you know who is an author or someone who loves reading to come and celebrate with us! If you have any questions, please leave them below in the comments. See you this evening! ______________ Paul Roberson Community Executive Director ______________________________ Classroom Author Profile www.bigbooklove.com/paul-l-roberson/ _______________________________________