Kathy Patrick
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| caption = Kathy L. Patrick dressed as Auntie Mame at the Pulpwood Queens Girlfriend Weekend 2011
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| birth_place = Eureka, Kansas
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| occupation = Author, founder of Pulpwood Queens book club
| nationality = American
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| genre = Fiction, non-fiction
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| notableworks = The Pulpwood Queen's Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life
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| website = {{URL|http://BeautyandtheBook.com/}}
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Kathy L. Patrick is an author, hairdresser, founder of Pulpwood Queens Book Club, and owner of the Jefferson, Texas, hair salon/bookstore, Beauty and the Book. She was born and raised in Kansas.
Personal background
Patrick graduated in 1974 from Eureka High School in Eureka, Kansas. She lives on the outskirts of Jefferson with her husband Jay. They have two children, Madeleine Patrick, and Laynii Patrick.
Career
While attending college—a total of seven universities, including Emporia State University and Texas A&M University—she worked as a hairdresser, later landing work in the publishing industry. She opened Beauty and the Book in 1999 after losing her job as a book sales representative. Oxford American magazine sent author Carol Dawson to the shop to cover the grand opening, dubbed "Perms and Prose." The resulting article, titled "Hairdresser to the Authors," put Patrick's salon and book store on the map.[http://www.texasobserver.org/archives/item/15259-2659-bound-and-determined-imagination-helps-small-bookstores-survive Texas Observer, "Bound and Determined," January 10, 2008]
In 2008, she wrote the nonfiction book The Pulpwood Queen's Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life.[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003D7JUPS Book listing, The Pulpwood Queen's Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life]
In 2011, Random House announced it was planning a 12-episode season for an online book club talk show, featuring interviews with Random House authors. The company spokesman said the show was created "in response to increased demand for digital content from book clubs."[http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publishing-and-marketing/article/45809-random-pulpwood-queens-book-club-partner-on-online-talk-show.html Publishers Weekly, "Random, Pulpwood Queens Book Club Partner on Online Talk Show," January 18, 2011]
Patrick appeared on Good Morning America{{'}}s "Recipe Show" with her chicken shish kabob recipe.[http://www.wchstv.com/gmarecipes/coconutchickenkabobs.shtml "Cookin' With Good Morning America," "Coconut Cumin Chicken Shish Kabobs From Kathy Patrick, Pulpwood Queens Book Club"] She also appeared on radio on the Kacey Kowars Show in January 2008.[http://www.kaceykowarsshow.com/authors/patrick.html Guest, "Kacey Kowars Show," January 16, 2008] For one season, she hosted her own talk show, Beauty and the Book, which debuted on HGTV in March 2009, and was listed in HGTV's Top 10.[http://television.aol.com/episode/beauty-and-the-book/hgtvs-top-10/10497345 AOL Television, "Beauty and the Book," HGTV talk show, hosted by Kathy Patrick]
Texas Monthly magazine featured Patrick in its January 2008 issue, after the release of her book.[http://www.texasmonthly.com/2008-01-01/webextra2.php Texas Monthly," "The Pulpwood Queens" Guide To Life: An extended interview with Kathy Patrick, January 2008] The next month, she was interviewed for a feature article in The Debutante's Ball, a blog about debut authors.[http://www.thedebutanteball.com/?p=817 The Debutante Ball, "Guest Author/Beauty Maven Kathy Patrick," February 29, 2008]
She was runner-up in 2010 of MediaBistro's Dancing with the Stars reader vote after it launched "Should Authors Dance?" for a writer to be cast on the popular reality show.[http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/dancing-with-the-stars-facebook_b14396 MediaBistro.com, "Dancing with the Stars Facebook Petition," October 19, 2010]
Speaking appearances
Patrick was a panelist at the Texas Book Festival in October 2010,[http://www.texasbookfestival.org/Author_Page.php?aid=412 Panelist, 2010 Texas Book Festival] and at the 2009 AJC Decatur Book Festival in Georgia.[http://www.decaturbookfestival.com/2009/authors/author-detail.php?PresenterID=35 Speaker, AJC Decatur Book Festival, September 2009] Also in 2009, she was a speaker at the Louisiana Book Festival.[http://www.louisianabookfestival.org/Programs_genre.htm Panelist, Louisiana Book Festival 2009 (featured list of authors by genre)] as well as a speaker at the Author! Author! Book Festival in Shreveport, Louisiana, in June 2009.[http://www.authorauthorshreveport.com/about.html Author! Author! Book Festival, Schedule of Events]
References
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External links
- [http://beautyandthebook.com/ Patrick's official website]
- [https://www.amazon.com/Kathy-L.-Patrick/e/B001H6OP48 Amazon's author page]
- [http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/Kathy_Patrick_(1072355)_Article(1).aspx Kathy Patrick's bio, Hatchette Book Group site]
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Category:American women in business
Category:People from Eureka, Kansas
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:People from Jefferson, Texas