Sarah Palin Book Tour Schedule
Sarah Palin’s Book Tour Heavy On The Battleground States
Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue Book Tour will take the 2008 vice presidential candidate to some key political battleground states, including Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Missouri, Minnesota and Iowa. Kathy Kiely and Bob Minzesheimer, writing for USA Today, opine that the former governor’s road trip which begins next week “looks more like a whistle-stop campaign” than a book tour:
Of 20 stops that have been announced through Dec. 7, only nine are in counties where Republican John McCain beat Democrat Barack Obama in last year’s presidential election.
“Publishing a book is like a political campaign,” said Peter Osnos, who has published a number of well-known politicians’ books through his imprint, Public Affairs. “She is going to go out there and stump for it.”
Osnos points out there’s a precedent for politicians using book tours as launching pads. The publicity tour for Obama’s second book, Audacity of Hope, “became a huge part of his political ascendancy,” Osnos said.
Like everything Sarah Palin does, her book tour will be unconventional. None of the interviews she has scheduled to promote her memoir are with print publications, and none of the stops for book signings on her tour will be in big cities:
Instead, the former Alaska governor will hit small- and medium-size cities starting Wednesday, mostly in the South and Midwest. She’ll be making two and sometimes three stops a day, traveling in a bus painted with the cover of her book, says Tina Andreadis, a spokeswoman for HarperCollins, Palin’s publisher.
“These are the places where she had her biggest fans and where we think we will sell the most books,” Andreadis said.
And sell books she will. Going Rogue is #2 on Amazon.com’s Bestsellers list behind only Stephen King’s new blockbuster, and it has been in the top 100 for 43 days based solely on pre-release sales. Publisher HarperCollins has ordered a first printing of 1.5 million copies.
Sarah Palin will be making some big city appearances to promote her book, however. She will hit the television studios of Fox News and ABC in News York for major interviews, and her first in the series of interviews will be in Chicago for the Oprah show. Also, former Gov. Palin will venture inside Washington D.C.’s Beltway to speak to the Gridiron Club early in December.
Our updated Going Rogue Book Tour schedule is here.
The Sarah Palin Going Rogue Book Tour Schedule (Updated)
Still a work in progress, as HarperCollins is filling in the blanks, but here’s what we have so far:
11/18: Grand Rapids, MI – Barnes & Noble, Woodland Mall, 3670 28th St SE, Kentwood, 6 PM (Link)
11/19: Fort Wayne, IN – Meijer – 10301 Maysville Rd, Fort Wayne, 12 Noon (Link)
11/19: Noblesville, IN – Borders Books and Music, 13145 Levinson Lane, 6 PM (Link)
11/20: Cincinnati, OH – Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 2692 Madison Rd, Norwood, 12 Noon (Link)
11/20: Columbus, OH – Borders Books and Music, 6670 Sawmill Road, 6 PM (Link)
11/21: Washington, PA – Sam’s Club, 80 Trinity Point Drive, South Strabane, 11 AM (Link)
11/21: Rochester, NY – Borders Books and Music, 1000 Hylan Drive, Henrietta, 6 PM (Link)
11/22: Roanoke, VA – Barnes & Noble, 4811 Valley View Blvd N NW, Valley View Mall 11 AM, (Link)
11/23: Fort Bragg, NC – AAFES Post Exchange, Bldg. #8-5050 Butner Rd, North Post Mall 11 AM (Link)
11/23: Birmingham, AL – Books-A-Million, 757 Brookwood Village, Birmingham, 4:30 PM (Link)
11/24: Jacksonville, FL – Books-A-Million, 1910 Wells Road, Orange Park, 9 AM (Link)
11/24: The Villages, FL – Barnes & Noble, 1055 Old Camp Road, Lake Sumter Mkt Sq, 2:30 PM (Link)
11/24: Orlando, FL – Barnes & Noble, Colonial Plaza, 2418 East Colonial Drive, 7:30 PM (Link)
11/26 – 11/29: Thanksgiving Break
12/01: Roswell, NM – Hastings Books Music & Videos, 1705 N Main St, Roswell, NM, 7 PM
12/02: Springfield, MO – Borders Books and Music, 3300 S. Glenstone Ave (Link)
12/03: Fayetteville, AR – Sam’s Club, 3081 North Highway 112 at I-540, exit 66 (Link)
12/03: Norman, OK – Hastings Books Music & Videos, 2300 W Main St, Norman, OK, 7 PM (Link)
12/04: Fort Hood, TX, Place and time TBA (Link)
12/04: Dallas, TX – Legacy Books, 7300 Dallas Parkway, Plano, 11AM – 2 PM, (Link)
12/06: Sioux City, IA – Barnes & Noble, Southern Hills Mall, 4400 Sergeant Rd, 1PM (Link)
12/06: Sioux Falls, SD – Barnes & Noble, 3700 West 41st St, Sioux Falls, 5PM (Link)
12/07: Bloomington, MN – Barnes & Noble, 118 East Broadway Suite 238, Mall of America, 7 PM (Link)
12/10: Coeur d’Alene, ID – Fred Meyer, 560 W Kathleen Ave, (208) 665-4703 (Link)
Possible:
Albuquerque, NM (Link)
Phoenix, NM
Redding, CA
Billings, MT
Anchorage, AK
This post will be continuously updated as more locations and venues are announced.
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Sarah Palin book Going Rogue Due November 17
Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, has finished her memoir Going Rogue, just four months after the book deal was announced, and the release date of ‘Going Rogue’ has been moved up from the spring to Nov. 17, her publisher said.
Sarah palin's book Going Rogue
“Governor Palin has been unbelievably conscientious and hands-on at every stage, investing herself deeply and passionately in bring up her book Going Rogue” said Jonathan Burnham, publisher of Harper. “It’s her words, her life, and it’s all there in full and fascinating detail.”
Sarah Palin Book Going Rogue, will be 400 pages, said Burnham, who called the fall “the best possible time for a major book of this kind.” The book now has a title, one fitting for a public figure known for the unexpected – “Going Rogue: An American Life.”
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, has commissioned a huge first printing of 1.5 million copies. Sen. Ted Kennedy’s “True Compass,” published by Twelve soon after his Aug. 25 death, also had a 1.5 million first printing.
As with the Kennedy book, the digital edition of Sarah Palin’s memoir will not be released at the same time as the hardcover. “Going Rogue” will not be available as an e-book until Dec. 26 because “we want to maximize hardcover sales over the holidays,” Harper spokeswoman Tina Andreadis said Monday.
Publishers have been concerned that e-books, rapidly becoming more popular, might take away sales from hardcover editions, which are more expensive.
Sarah Palin, who abruptly resigned as Alaska governor over the summer with more than a year left in her first term, has been an object of fascination since Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate in 2008, chosed her as his running mate, making an instant celebrity out of a once-obscure public official.
During last year’s campaign, pundits questioned whether Sarah Palin hurt McCain’s presidential bid by “going rogue,” or defying his campaign’s control.
Although Democrat candidate Barack Obama easily won the presidential election and Sarah Palin was criticized even by some Republicans for being inexperienced, she remains a favorite among conservatives and is a rumored contender for 2012 Presidential Election. Sarah Palin popularity is so high that a fan recently paid $63,500 to have dinner with her, part of an Online auction for a charity that raising money to aids wounded veterans.
A person close to Sarah Palin said, Sarah Palin, spent weeks in San Diego shortly after leaving office and worked on the manuscript with collaborator Lynn Vincent. She was joined in San Diego by her family and her top aide, Meghan Stapleton, then spent several days in New York working around the clock with editors at Harper, said the person, who wasn’t authorized to comment and asked not to be identified.
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Sarah Palin Book Going Rogue cover page released
All of us know “Going Rogue” is the title of the Sarah Palin’s Book, today they released the cover page of the “Going Rogue” book. Let us see the cover of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue.”
The former Alaska governor’s memoir, a top-seller online weeks before publication, will feature an outdoor shot of Sarah Palin, wearing an American flag pin on her red fleece top, eyes turned slightly from the camera as she smiles confidently into the horizon, a patchwork of Alaska blue sky and clouds behind her.
The image was released on Oct 01 by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins.
The book, originally planned for next spring, is coming out Nov. 17 with an announced first printing of 1.5 million copies. Sarah Palin and collaborator Lynn Vincent finished “Going Rogue” just two months after Sarah Palin’s resignation as governor.
On Wednesday night, preorders for the memoir Going Rogue made it No. 1 on both Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com.
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