ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is promising to visit more cities than a conventional book tour when her memoir "Going Rogue" is published later this month.
Palin says the locations of her book tour will be announced later this week by her publisher, HarperCollins. But in a Facebook posting Tuesday, the former Alaska governor says she's decided to travel to cities outside of the typical book tour venues.
Her book hits stores Nov. 17. Palin will appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" the day before the book release.
Palin says she's also trying to line up other interviews with hosts such as Bill O'Reilly, Barbara Walters and Rush Limbaugh.
NEW YORK -- It was a weird day in the book price wars.
The cost of John Grisham's "Ford County," officially released Tuesday, moved up and down like stock market shares as rivals Amazon.com and Walmart.com extended, then rescinded, their high discounts for top-selling pre-orders.
]]> Early in the day, Amazon was selling Grisham's book of short stories for $9, the same price it had offered for "Ford County" before publication and a sign that Amazon was ready to continue the cost competition beyond the release date. Walmart.com was selling "Ford County" for $12 early Tuesday, then cut the price to the pre-order discount of $8.98.By Tuesday afternoon, the cost was back up to $11.99 for both online sellers.
"We remain committed to offering our customers the lowest prices online at Walmart.com, and will continue to adjust our pricing accordingly and as needed on these books," Walmart.com spokesman Ravi Jariwala.
Amazon.com did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Hardcovers generally have a list price of $24 or higher, but in mid-October Walmart.com announced dramatic cuts for pre-orders of "Ford County," Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" and other popular November publications.
Wal-Mart.com initially charged $9 for the books, a price quickly matched by Amazon.com, then it dropped to just under $9 by Wal-Mart.com and Target.com. Authors, publishers and rival booksellers worry that cutting the price so low will harm competition and force down the cost of books overall, leading to a reduction in author advances.
"We run the risk of seriously devaluing our product," Grisham told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Target.com was selling "Ford County" for $15 on Tuesday. Online sellers also raised prices for two other releases that came out Tuesday and had been offered for $9 or less as pre-orders: J.D. Robb's "Kindred in Death" and Barbara Kingsolver's "The Lacuna."
The price of e-books, which Amazon.com and others often sell for under $10, was another concern for Grisham. Although the author says he owns a Kindle and believes digital reading devices will keep getting "better and cooler and smarter," he believes that best-selling releases cost so little that hardcover sales might suffer.
"Ford County" joins a growing list, including Palin's memoir and Stephen King's "Under the Dome," of books for which the e-edition will not come out until well after the hardcover.
"When a movie comes out you go see it and three later months later you buy the DVD," said Grisham, whose book currently does not have a release date for the electronic version. "We may do something like that (for 'Ford County')."
The York Jewish Community Center will present Mitch Albom Live via satellite from the 92nd Street Y in New York City at 8 p.m. Nov. 4.
Tickets are only $5 and include light refreshments. They are available at the JCC, 2000 Hollywood Drive, and at Bookland and Borders Books & Music.
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2. "In a Perfect World" by Laura Kasischke.
3. "Have a Little Faith" by Mitch Albom.
4. "The Big Burn" by Timothy Egan.
5. "Arguing with Idiots" by Glenn Beck.
Steve McNaughton, paranormal investigator and author of "Pennsylvania's Adams County Ghosts," will be the guide.
Tickets are $11 the day of the tour, $10 in advance and $9 to NOAHS members, available at the New Oxford Coffee Company and The Christmas Haus, 110 Lincoln Way West. Proceeds benefit the historical society.
No children under the age of 10 and no children under the age of 16 without an adult.
McNaughton will sell and sign copies of his book after each tour.
Jennifer Blackwell-Yale will speak. New members are welcome.
For details, call 795-0874.
"Resurrection" is the second in a four-cycle science fiction series called "Shadows." Publisher is Hulu.com.
It is available on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com under the Christian contemporary genre.
The book was published Oct. 28, one year after the passing of Col. Ripley, who was known for his service in Vietnam.
For details or to buy the book for $14.95 plus shipping, visit www.AmericanKnight.org or call 888-317-5571.
Ten emerging writers, their home countries ranging from Vietnam to the United States, each have received a $50,000 prize.
The Whiting Writers' Awards, given annually for "exceptional talent and promise in early career," were announced Oct. 28. The recipients included fiction writer Vu Tran, born in Vietnam and now living in Las Vegas, and poet Jay Hopler, a native of Puerto Rico who lives in Tampa, Fla.
The other winners were poets Jericho Brown and Joan Kane, playwright Rajiv Joseph, nonfiction authors Michael Meyer and Hugh Raffles, and fiction writers Adam Johnson, Nami Mun and Salvatore Scibona, whose novel "The End" was a National Book Award finalist in 2008.
The awards, presented by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, were founded in 1985. Previous winners include such Pulitzer Prize winners as Jeffrey Eugenides, Michael Cunningham and Jorie Graham.
National Novel Writing Month begins Nov. 1. The goal is to write a 175-page
(50,000-word) novel by midnight Nov. 30.
For details, visit www.nanowrimo.org or the local group's Facebook page. Look for Central-PA-Wrimos.
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Johnny Depp, son of an engineer father and a homemaker mother, was born in Owensboro, Ky. As a young boy, he spent most of his time with his beloved grandfather, who died shortly after Johnny's seventh birthday. That same year, his family moved to Florida, living in at least a dozen different houses, leaving him feeling displaced. When he was 15, his parents divorced. Johnny became surly and disinterested in school. He turned to drugs and a wild, rebellious lifestyle that carried over into adulthood and followed him through his career.
When he was 12 years old, his mother bought him an electric guitar and he taught himself how to play. He eventually formed a rock band, The Kids, that played in clubs around Florida opening for big name bands. At 20, he met and married (and eventually divorced) Lori Ann Allison, who introduced him to a friend of hers, Nicholas Cage, nephew of Francis Ford Coppola. Cage in turn, suggested Johnny try acting and introduced him to his agent, who landed him an audition for the movie, "A Nightmare on Elm Street." And the rest is history.
]]> Throughout his acting career, Depp had no desire to be labeled a movie star, deliberately opting away from the typical blockbuster type movie, but chose character roles in unconventional films. He became well known as the best lead character actor of his generation. Some of his better known movies are "Edward Scissorhands," "Chocolat," "Finding Neverland," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Pirates of the Caribbean."He had always valued family and had long desired to settle down and start his own. After several famous rocky relationships with the likes of Winona Ryder and Kate Moss, he eventually met Vanessa Paradis, settled down and became the father of two children.
He admits that 'for many years I was confused about life, growing up and not knowing right from wrong, but now, because Vanessa and my children have taught me, the only thing that matters in life is being a good parent.'
I enjoyed reading about Johnny Depp's life. It was interesting seeing him grow from a traumatized, rebellious boy into one of the best actors of our lifetime and a family man who finally found peace in life with a very special woman and their two children.