Kathy L. Patrick is an author,

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, founder of Pulpwood Queens Book Club, and owner of the

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, 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

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. 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

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and

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—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. ''

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'' 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. In 2008, she wrote the nonfiction book ''The Pulpwood Queen's Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life''. In 2011,

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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." Patrick appeared on ''

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''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 her own talk show, ''Beauty and the Book'', which debuted on

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in March 2009, and was listed in HGTV's Top 10. ''

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'' 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

Patrick was a panelist at the

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in October 2010, and at the 2009 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.Author! Author! Book Festival, Schedule of Events
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References

External links

Patrick's official websiteAmazon's author pageKathy Patrick's bio, Hatchette Book Group site
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