THE ROGUE’s last chapter almost done–contest winner announced next week
June 1, 2011
My thanks to the many who contributed suggestions for my last chapter in response to my announcement of the contest on May 17.
The blue-ribbon panel of judges (whose identities I’ve kept private to protect them from the temptations of bribery) has finished its work and given me a short list of five finalists.
As I wrap up work on the last chapter this week, I’ll choose the winner of the $250 prize. Autographed copies of The Rogue will go to all five who made the short list.
Can anyone imagine how happy I am to be almost finished with this book?
I’ll be able to post the full jacket here soon–Random House/Crown has done a great job in every way, from copy-editing to legal review to jacket design. I’ll, of course, be keeping you all updated on the process as we move toward Sept. 20 publication. I can’t disclose anything about publicity appearances yet, except to say that I’ll be doing network TV from New York, Washington and Los Angeles, as well as–you betcha!–heading back to Alaska.
Transportation will be by airplane. Sorry, no bus tour. Nor will I bring my grandchildren along as human shields.
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36 Responses to “THE ROGUE’s last chapter almost done–contest winner announced next week”
Nail her Joe!!!
I don’t want to wish away a Minnesota summer, but damn I can not wait!
Congratulations Joe. Looking forward to it.
So Piper tells the people from TIME. “Thanks for ruining our vacation.”
Another Palin family member who is an expert on victimization.
Palin did her best to hi jack the Rolling Thunder thingee in D.C.
She has her bus shrink wraped to make it one of the most obvious things out on the road.
Does anyone else have a shrink wrapped bus to go on a private, low key vacation with the family? Incognito?
Have to love the New Yorker who slapped the I the Media Whore on that shrink wrapped monstrosity.
Perhaps a bit of ghetto artwork will be added here and there along the magical mystery history tour.
Congratulations Joe!
I will be waiting patiently, well sort of patiently to receive your new book! You really should consider wrapping a bus in your book jacket and going on tour. We would all come out to see you – and your bus!
I will send a $100.00 check to you made out to the charity of your choice if I could convince (“bribe”) you to autograph a copy of your book and send it to me. I am so excited about it! If you do plan to have a book signing in Chicago I will swoon in joy!!
Congratulations on your finished product! May you enjoy some well deserved time off in the company of people adore and doing acivities you adore.
P.S. I do have it on pre-order via the link on Gryphen’s blog.
Can’t wait to read your book. I just know it’s going to be good!
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Congratulations on your finished product! May you enjoy some well deserved time off in the company of people ;you love and doing acivities you adore.
It must be a relief to have it over and done with.
Yet this Magical Mystery History Tour is promising.
Might be you’ll have to write another book, or, at the very least, an Epilogue.
Congratulations.
You’ve got a deal.
Please send me your postal address privately at joemcginniss@gmail.com
When I send the book, I’ll tell you the charity to whom you should make out the check.
I’d love to get to Chicago, but these days it’s all about national media shows and Chicago doesn’t have them any more. I did wonderful stuff with Studs Terkel and always made a stop at Irv Kupcinet’s show. Publishers don’t think bookstore signings are worth the travel costs, except for celebrities, which, thankfully, I am not.
Nonetheless, I’ll lobby for a Chicago stop.
–Joe
Congratulations! I’m so looking forward to reading The Rogue.
Hopefully you got this media whore tour into the final chapter? But then it would take another whole book to chronicle the stupid crap she does from now on, wouldn’t it?
Cannot wait for your book…It is pre-ordered and will magically appear thanks to Amazon. You have done what the media has ignored except for using SP’s name to attract viewers. No substance in any of their pieces on her. Katie Couric was the only one to push her.
Thank you. Without brilliant writers like you the damage she has done to our country would be much less visible.
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Pretty please, Joe, come to Chicago!!!
Delighted to hear that you are coming back to Alaska! The majority of us will welcome you w/open arms.
Can hardly wait for your book to arrive at my door via Amazon.
Hey Joe…My copy is in the hands of amazon…waiting very patiently, can’t wait..
$creech had a not so good day today…she’s such a freakin fraud…won’t answer any questions …
damm i must be living wrong…can’t find anyone to foot my gas bill…no big rv in my future….
There has been much mention of her larger than life signature on her infamous Winnebago. I’ve lost track on the progress of her trademarking initiative, but I would go as far as to say her signature is more than likely trademarked/registered, which would explain its emphasis in the design of the bus wrap. I would assume if that’s the case, it’s an emergence of what’s to come as part of the Sarah Palin Inc. marketing junkets rather than a credible candidate campaigning for the presidency. “Unconventional” is not going to cut it and she knows it. In the off chance she manages to defy all odds, we here in Canada will welcome you with open arms 🙂
Last but not least, a shout-out to the five finalists in Joe’s contest. Congratulations to all!
Congratulations! I pre-ordered your book, along with Levi’s (I know, I know–but I just want to see what he has to say–he’s probably more credible than his almost-mother-in-law). It’ll be a looong summer of waiting. I do hope that you’ll continue your blog until the book is published, and beyond.
Someday I’d like to write about all the great experiences I’ve had in Canada, from Halifax to Ucluelet: including Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Jasper, Lake Louise and Fortress Lake in Alberta, Whitehorse, Vancouver and Victoria. What a country you have! I love it. Hope to get back soon.
–Joe
Sad to see at 10 Piper without immediate intervention is a teen statistic waiting to happen. Unlike her siblings who have/do drugs, get knocked up, run amok disrespectfully causing tens of thousandths of dollars of property damage, Piper has the streak to hurt herself for attention in ways she won’t be able to take back.
Sarah has staged this kid to hate, to blame others, to push, lie, cheat for what she wants. The day will come when she is intolerable to her own mother. When that day comes and someone tells Piper NO she will not know how to react. The anger will turn to violence against herself or someone else. Sarah better save some of her PAC funds for therapy or to settle claims. No way there will not be a serious incident unless an adult takes Piper away from Sarah’s madness….NOW!!!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS JOE!!!
The video that was out earlier of Palin trying to get Piper to apologize, the one where Sarah handed out flowers PAY CLOSE ATTENTION EVERYONE http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/sarah-palin-in-jersey-city-20110601-KC?CMP=201106_emailshare Piper walks out, she is holding flowers she is unhappy at her mom shaking everyone’s hand and going toward the reporters. Right you all saw that.
NOW CHECK OUT THE NEW VIDEO OF THE SAME EVENT BEING LINKED AT C4P that they say shows Piper happy with reporters, being funny, having a good time. http://www.therightscoop.com/palin-my-family-doesnt-need-to-be-tested-with-a-bus-tour/ At the beginning of the clip it is the same scene as the apology one EXCEPT THIS TIME Sarah is holding the flowers as they walk through the door, Piper is holding a water bottle PIPER’S HAIR IS PULLED UP IN A BUN IN THE BACK when before it was down OMIGOD THEY RESTAGED THE ENTIRE scene later so Piper would be seen smiling for the reporters talking happily. Not only this watch as Sarah starts to shake the hands of the EXACT SAME GUYS IN LINE AS SHE DID IN THE FIRST VIDEO they are the exact same guys with the exception she did not shake the last guys hands as she did in the first video because she went to go prompt Piper on an answer.
Please for those who can copy these videos immediately before someone deletes or alters them and get them viral fast!!!
I hail from the Montreal area…a great city with a special European cachet. There is so much beauty, culture and history to discover in Canada. It’s a very welcoming country if I do say so myself. It always amazes me that Canada’s entire population is just over 34 million, while Los Angeles alone is close to 37 million. We’re not too crowded up here! I hope you pay us a visit soon!
I enjoy my daily reading at your Blog, and look forward to your much anticipated release of The Rogue.
Ooooops….I meant to reference California rather than Los Angeles 🙂
Very rough weather in this part of Massachusetts today. Four different tornadoes. The one in Springfield, which killed four people, was obviously the worst. This video of it is like an outtake from a disaster movie:
http://tinyurl/com/3o9ketb
We’re taking the grandchildren to the Bay of Fundy this summer. It looks wonderful.
You don’t need me to explain it, Kimberly. You see it with your own eyes.
Sarah lives in her own private North Korea.
–Joe
“So Piper tells the people from TIME. “Thanks for ruining our vacation.”
That’s the most disgusting thing that Palin does. It’s bad enough she plays on and uses and stomps on every decent anything that matters to “rill” Americans she doesn’t even know. She rubs her pathology off on her own children.
She told her own daughter this was a vacation when anybody over 10 knows that you don’t go on a vacation in a tacky campaign vehicle covered with cheeze, and with Aunt Greta interviewing in the back. But Bristol isn’t over 10.
Piper’s mad at the press? What else would she know to do. The question is what does she do later? Buy in like sister Bristol, destroying her face, lumbering around like a talentless clod on a dance show, cashing checks and calling teacher’s “-ssholes” and making a career of bad decisions and victimhood like her mother with a fake PR Ltd. company or….does she grow up, wake up, and wipe her sorry excuse for a mother off her and have a good and decent life?
Piper’s a child. I can’t criticize her even if she’s acting like a petulant brat. She was practically raised by wolves and definitely by a Mama Grizzly (when Ma Grizz bothered to show up. Which I’m thinking was best if she stayed away in hindsight. Sarah has nothing to teach a child.) It’s not her fault. I just hope she escapes.
And someone will put a sign on it that says “Read your book, yes she WAS a media whore.”
Congratulations, Mr McGinniss. I look forward to reading your book.
That is great for you Joe. It could not have been easy to live with Mrs. Palin’s demons all this time. I do hope you will continue your blog. I have really enjoyed your postings and all the comments.
The day of reckoning is coming for the Queen and that day is not too far off. There are far too many skeletons in the Palin closet.
Today might be interesting. Romney and Palin will both be in New Hampshire. They obviously do not like each other. Rebecca Mansour let that out of the bag recently with her revelation that Sarah does not appreciate Romney’s leaks to the press. My money is on Romney having something to leak. Will he do so today or will he continue to keep his powder dry.
The Bay of Fundy is a true wonder and a great place to vacation. That coastline stretches between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and is chock-full of activities you can do with the grandkids. Enjoy! Hope you have a wonderful time!
As you’ll be in DC anyway, I hope you’ll be able to appear at Politics and Prose, and/or Busboys and Poets.
About Levi’s book: in the opinion of Floyd Orr, “Those of you who are expecting Levi Johnston to tell the whole truth in his upcoming book are just deluding yourselves. The reason is not that you are stupid, or that Levi is, either, but that the prosecution of Levi’s mom had the desired effect of shutting up both Levi and his mouthy little sister. None of us should blame Levi (or Mercede) for the result of this sinister plot to keep them quiet.”
http://niafs.blogspot.com/2011/05/cover-story.html
I love the part where the PeeBots come out “en force” to explain and explain that the first one didn’t happen.
Evidence doesn’t matter. It’s what you believe.
Hi Joe!
And the verdict is……?
I’ll post it over the weekend.
Thanks.
–Joe