Kathy Patrick
Encyclopedia
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.
. She lives on the outskirts of Jefferson with her husband Jay. They have two children.
Madeleine Patrick, and Laynii Patrick.
and Texas A&M University
-- she worked as a hairdresser to put herself through college, 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 had 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.
In 2008, she wrote the nonfiction book, The Pulpwood Queen's Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life.
In 2011, Random House
announced it was teaming up with Patrick to launch a 12-episode season for an online book club talk show, featuring interviews with Random House authors. Avideh Bashirrad, with Random House Publishing Group, said the show was created "in response to increased demand for digital content from book clubs."
Patrick appeared on "Good Morning America
's" "Recipe Show", with her chicken shish kabob recipe. She also appeared on radio on the "Kacey Kowars Show" in January 2008. For one season, she hosted, on HGTV
, her own talk show, which debuted in March 2009, titled "Beauty and the Book," and was listed in HGTV's Top 10.
Texas Monthly
magazine featured Patrick in its January 2008 issue, after the release of her book. The next month, she was interviewed for a feature article in The Debutante's Ball, a blog about debut authors.
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.
in October 2010, Patrick was a panelist, as she was in 2009 at the AJC Decatur Book Festival in Georgia, Also in 2009, she was a speaker at the Louisiana Book Festival. as well as a speaker at the Author! Author! Book Festival in Shreveport, Louisiana, in June 2009.
Barber
A barber is someone whose occupation is to cut any type of hair, and to shave or trim the beards of men. The place of work of a barber is generally called a barbershop....
, founder of Pulpwood Queens
Pulpwood Queens
The Pulpwood Queens is a meet-and-greet book club with a large following. It was founded in early 2000 in Jefferson, Texas, by Kathy L. Patrick in her combined beauty salon and book store, Beauty and the Book...
Book Club, and owner of the Jefferson, Texas
Jefferson, Texas
Jefferson is an historic city in Marion County in northeastern Texas, United States. The population was 2,024 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Marion County, Texas, and is situated in East 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, KansasEureka, Kansas
Eureka is a city in and the county seat of Greenwood County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 2,633.-History:...
. 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 UniversityEmporia State University
Emporia State University is a university in the city of Emporia in Lyon County, Kansas, just east of the Flint Hills.- History :...
and Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...
-- she worked as a hairdresser to put herself through college, 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
Oxford American
The Oxford American is an American quarterly literary magazine "dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South."-First publication:...
magazine had 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.
In 2008, she wrote the nonfiction book, The Pulpwood Queen's Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life.
In 2011, Random House
Random House
Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
announced it was teaming up with Patrick to launch a 12-episode season for an online book club talk show, featuring interviews with Random House authors. Avideh Bashirrad, with Random House Publishing Group, said the show was created "in response to increased demand for digital content from book clubs."
Patrick appeared on "Good Morning America
Good Morning America
Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...
's" "Recipe Show", with her chicken shish kabob recipe. She also appeared on radio on the "Kacey Kowars Show" in January 2008. For one season, she hosted, on HGTV
HGTV
HGTV , is a cable-television network operating in the United States and Canada, broadcasting a variety of home and garden improvement, maintenance, renovation, craft and remodeling shows...
, her own talk show, which debuted in March 2009, titled "Beauty and the Book," and was listed in HGTV's Top 10.
Texas Monthly
Texas Monthly
Texas Monthly is a monthly American magazine headquartered in Austin, Texas. Texas Monthly is published by Emmis Publishing, L.P. and was founded in 1973 by Michael R. Levy, Texas Monthly chronicles life in contemporary Texas, writing on politics, the environment, industry, and education...
magazine featured Patrick in its January 2008 issue, after the release of her book. The next month, she was interviewed for a feature article in The Debutante's Ball, a blog about debut authors.
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.
Speaking appearances
At the Texas Book FestivalTexas Book Festival
The Texas Book Festival was established in 1995 by Laura Bush, then the First Lady of Texas, and Mary Margaret Farabee, wife of former State Senator Ray Farabee. The festival was created to benefit the state's public library system, to promote the joy of reading, as well as to honor Texas authors. ...
in October 2010, Patrick was a panelist, as she was in 2009 at the AJC Decatur Book Festival in Georgia, Also in 2009, she was a speaker at the Louisiana Book Festival. as well as a speaker at the Author! Author! Book Festival in Shreveport, Louisiana, in June 2009.