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!

Now is the time if you haven’t already sent me your book or books for consideration for my 2027 Official International Kathy L. Murphy Big Book Club Book Club Selections. Please email me at [email protected] for my mailing address and to send me all your contact information including the following: Author name if different for how you signed up on Skool Email Phone number Mailing physical address Also finished copy I can photograph to post for final press release and promotions. I do not I give any one access to any of your contact information. All books I read and select will receive my Official Stamp of Kathy L. Murphy Big Book Love Reading Approval. I am working on finishing up my reading for the 2027 and will have all this posted before the holidays so you can benefit from added sales for gift giving. I also will need to know pub date to determine the month to add your book to our list so our readers have time to read before book club meeting you are featured. If selected before press release announced, you must agree to be present for an interview with me where we discuss your book to share with the world. More to come so continue to post on my Kathy L. Murphy Big Book Love page on Facebook and Paul and I will approve your post. Also please review fellow authors book and share on that page and on Skool. You will see how much that will mean to you when you are selected. This year I have not seen one review of any of our authors books. Please correct me if I am incorrect. Thank you so much as it takes a significant amount of time to read the books I am sent and the select which ones best serve our International reading. Back to work and have a wonderful Labor Day Weekend!

Writing the book sounds like the hard part… But then you finish it and realize — wait… now I actually have to get people to read it. 😂 So I’m curious: 📖 What are you working on right now? ✍️ What part of the author journey are you enjoying most? 😩 And what’s the ONE thing you wish someone had told you before you started? Drop it below 👇 I’d love to meet more writers here and hear what everyone is working on. Let’s connect and share the ups and downs of this crazy author life.