Posted on 09/13/2018 12:09:55 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
Michelle Obama will go on nationwide stadium tour after releasing her memoir Becoming in November - with only 10 per cent going to charity
Former First Lady's memoir Becoming will be released on November 13, days after midterm elections
She will appear at venues seating as many as 23,000 people to talk about book
Obama says she wrote it after 'reflecting on my story as deeply and honestly as I could'
Book is to cost $32.50 but ticket prices are still to be released for tour which will be in venues including Washington D.C.'s Capital One Arena
Her husband has yet to set a release date for his book
Michelle Obama announced a 10-city U.S. stadium tour on Wednesday to support her upcoming memoir 'Becoming' that will feature what organizers called 'intimate and honest conversations' with audiences.
The former first lady will kick off the tour in her Chicago hometown on November 13, the day 'Becoming' is released in the U.S. and in 28 languages around the world.
Event promoters Live Nation said the tour would also take Obama to Los Angeles, Boston, Dallas, New York and other cities and stadiums with seating capacities of up to 23,000 that are also used for concerts by some of music's biggest acts.
'I've spent the last year and a half reflecting on my story as deeply and honestly as I could, and now I'm thrilled to travel the country and do the same with readers this fall,' Obama said in a statement.
In a message and video on her Facebook page, she described the book as 'the story of my humdrum plainness, my tiny victories, my lasting bruises, my ordinary hopes and worries.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Read that carefully. Nothing is going to charity. 10 percent of the tickets are going to rent a mob. It will be more like 50 percent to fill the seats.
Charity is one of the pillars of Islam.
Her sheer existence is charity enough! To be anywhere near her magnificence is all anyone could ever ask for!!! (~barf and sarc to the max)
...unless that “crotch grab” was photoshopped in?
It’s the second time of in her life she has been proud of her country.
“...Check out how the “glamorous” former first lady grabs her crotch...”
Ummmm....well....she’s a guy, and sometimes guys tend to do that.
Isn’t she just the most beautiful woman never.
The Obamas’ Book Deals Spark $65 Million Mystery
By Jim Milliot and Rachel Deahl with additional reporting from Francis Hoch |
Mar 03, 2017
When word broke early last week that former president and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama had landed a joint deal at Penguin Random House worth a reported $65 million, many in the industry were stunned. The advance is, if not the largest on record for two standalone works, certainly the largest in recent memory.
As is its company policy, PRH has not commented on the money. Some insiders, all of whom spoke to PW on the condition of anonymity, have expressed skepticism about the accuracy of the figure (which the Financial Times first reported). A week before the deal was announced, one high-ranking publisher at another house who had been involved in negotiations said that he thought the two books would fetch a total of $30 million. But many in the business, including scouts monitoring the auction, said they think the $65 million figure is accurate.
Assuming, then, that PRH did spend $65 million on both books, the publisher has a number of ways to make back its money, and then some. Industry members are confident both books will do well in hardcover, trade paperback, e-book, and audio. With Barack Obama’s new book, PRH has a title that will likely be an instant bestseller and will also become a backlist mainstay. It also has the potential to become a popular choice for course adoption. According to NPD BookScan, which tracks about 80% of print sales, Obama’s two previous books, 1995’s Dreams from My Father and 2006’s The Audacity of Hope, have sold roughly 4.7 million print copies combined since 2001, when BookScan started tracking sales.
Michelle Obama’s book is more of a gamble. Many insiders said that, despite her popularity as first lady and the notoriety she achieved in the just-closed presidential election, it’s harder to make an educated guess about how well her book could sell, out of the gate or in backlist.
Queen Moo.
Would that 10% to charity be the gross or net proceeds?
That's what its whole head would look like if its wig-hat fell off.
Just sayin'.
#HairHattedHooligan
#CulturalAppropriation
Bagster
She didn’t write anything. She couldn’t write a laundry list. The cover tries, but fails, to find a small bit of femininity - there is none.
“Check out how the “glamorous” former first lady grabs her crotch...*
The boys had shifted in his jock.
“Check out how the “glamorous” former first lady grabs her crotch...*
The boys had shifted in his jock.
I’m sure it will be chock full of lies and Bull Shit.
“Book is to cost $32.50”
Biggest laugh of the day....no the week.
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