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[Sharon007]

JERMAINE JACKSON TO WRITE HIS MEMOIR OF HIS BROTHER MICHAEL FOR FALL 2011 TOUCHSTONE PUBLICATION



(March 16, 2011, New York, NY) Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, has acquired Jermaine Jackson’s memoir You Are Not Alone: Michael: Through a Brother’s Eyes, the most authoritative account from inside the Jackson music dynasty illuminating the private man, the son, the father, and the brother. Stacy Creamer, Vice President and Publisher of Touchstone, acquired North America, audio, and first serial rights from Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown London. You Are Not Alone will be published in fall 2011. The book will be published simultaneously in the UK by HarperCollins.

In this story of brotherhood, Jermaine writes a faithful and loving portrait, giving fans a close look at the complex heart, mind, and soul of the King of Pop. It is a frank but sophisticated examination of the human, not the legend, with revealing insights and no subject off limits. It is written as a full and final understanding of who he was, why he was, and what shaped Michael Jackson.

Jermaine was Michael’s true confidante who spoke up for him in life and now speaks up for his memory in death. You Are Not Alone invites the reader into the rarefied world of Michael’s life from childhood to stardom; from his homes in Gary, Indiana to Neverland, California; from the stage to the courts; from Jackson 5 and Motown to a global solo career and Sony. The book examines his true relationships with Joseph and Katherine, and the different characters that surrounded him. We witness his private anguish during the infamous 2005 child molestation trial when Jermaine stood by his brother through his darkest hour. We re-live the final weeks of his life, the politics, the AEG rehearsals, the police investigation, and the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray. From start to finish, this book is an expert witness to history from the inside. The end result is Michael Jackson as never seen before: raw, human, and desperate to be understood. You Are Not Alone will, without doubt, alter the way the world views him, humanizing someone whose own fame was dehumanizing.

“This book commemorates Michael’s life,” said Jermaine. “The forthcoming trial of Dr. Murray surrounds Michael’s death, but none of us wish for those proceedings to stand as the final word on how he is remembered. We want the world to remember his truth, his legacy, and some wonderful memories we shared as brothers, as a family. We don’t want Michael’s life to be an eternal mystery. I have read so much about what people claim to know about Michael, and I've heard countless people talk as if they knew him better than his own family. This book's blood is thicker and truer than water. It is about what really happened and who he really was, representing the things he never got the chance to say, based on what we know, based on what he shared.”

“As a lifelong fan of Michael Jackson and of Jermaine Jackson I am thrilled to be publishing You Are Not Alone,” commented Creamer. “Jermaine’s book will offer a unique view of the real Michael Jackson, a perspective only a very few people could possibly have. As his brother and close confidante since they were children, Jermaine can explain Michael in a way that, in life, Michael was never able to articulate himself.”

Source: http://imprints.simo...jermainejackson

[Sugar_Plum]

yeah,yeah, once again prove that his brother! JERMAINE wants to earn money on his dead brother... ;( s..a...d..

[Sharon007]

Sugar_Plum, on 17 March 2011 - 07:15 AM, said:

yeah,yeah, once again prove that his brother! JERMAINE wants to earn money on his dead brother... ;( s..a...d..

You are right. He is trying to make money by writing about Michael. I cant remember the last time Jermaine hat a hit record. This is a desperate attempt by Jermaine to get money. He is in debt and his ex wife wants money from him.

But recently I have noticed the greed that exists in the Jackson family

[soap]

Noone does anything without wanting money.
At least this is close to the family and not some weird person trying to make money on Michaels name.

[magic]

Sharon007, on 17 March 2011 - 10:49 PM, said:

But recently I have noticed the greed that exists in the Jackson family

I have noticed that before as well.

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Noone does anything without wanting money.

There is some lines if you want to make money on your work or on somebody's else work or death. I don't think that way of earning money is clean. Get a job, Jermaine! Something that is not related with Michael maybe...

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At least this is close to the family and not some weird person trying to make money on Michaels name.

I don't see a difference. If it's close this is maybe even worse cause they sell their friend/ family for money.

[soap]

magic, on 19 March 2011 - 01:50 PM, said:

I have noticed that before as well.

This is not greed.

magic, on 19 March 2011 - 01:50 PM, said:

There is some lines if you want to make money on your work or on somebody's else work or death. I don't think that way of earning money is clean. Get a job, Jermaine! Something that is not related with Michael maybe...

This is very clean and very smart. Almost to the point that you would be considered stupid if you didn't do it.
This is a job. And it's good that he thinks about Michael here.

magic, on 19 March 2011 - 01:50 PM, said:

I don't see a difference. If it's close this is maybe even worse cause they sell their friend/ family for money.

This is about taking advantage of a situation. It's needed in this world. There is nothing bad about this. Unless it's fiction from some outsiders that just want money and doesn't care about what they sell.

[magic]

If my friend or somebody from my family would be famous and I would know they would cherish their privacy I wouldn't write a book after the person is one. In my opinion it's not respectful. It is done only for the money. I know an actor who were/ is famous in Latvia. He left Latvia few years ago but sometimes he is still mentioned in media. I am talking with him through letters time to time and I know what he is doing etc... But I am not running to the media to sell my stories about him. I don't think it is right to sell friends or family. Write about yourself cause you can decide your own private life but leave other lives. Exception is if somebody have some official biography authors.

[soap]

magic, on 19 March 2011 - 08:44 PM, said:

If my friend or somebody from my family would be famous and I would know they would cherish their privacy I wouldn't write a book after the person is one. In my opinion it's not respectful. It is done only for the money. I know an actor who were/ is famous in Latvia. He left Latvia few years ago but sometimes he is still mentioned in media. I am talking with him through letters time to time and I know what he is doing etc... But I am not running to the media to sell my stories about him. I don't think it is right to sell friends or family. Write about yourself cause you can decide your own private life but leave other lives. Exception is if somebody have some official biography authors.

Maybe you wouldn't. But we are all different.
You forget the point when people choose to be famous, they choose to say good bye to private life too.

If there were no money in music, then Michael would never have done any music.
Everything is about money.

If Michael told them a secret, then of course they shouldn't tell about it. But it's their lives. Jermaine is allowed to tell what he has experienced.

You don't even know what will be in the book. But you are already judging it.

[magic]

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Jermaine is allowed to tell what he has experienced.

well, what I understand is that he is writing a book about Michael, not himself, cause he knows a book about himself wouldn't sell much. So he choose to write about Michael instead. Michael is business for him in this case. And I don't like that. And I shouldn't even know what will be in the book, enough is said that it's about Michael.

[soap]

I really don't understand why we can't be happy for Michael anymore.

Everything happening around him has always been about money. Nothing has changed there. Dear or alive. It's the same.

I do not believe Jermaine would write anything bad about Michael.
So this is good and the family would be proud of it.

[magic]

I never said he will write bad about it. And I always thought Michael was very much used by everyone to gain money. It is not he that ppl care about, it was how much money he can bring to them.

[Phantom]

so many books have been written about Michael

I don't see anything wrong in Jermaine writing one too

at least he won't write anything bad about Michael (or that's what I hope and think)

soap, on 19 March 2011 - 10:52 PM, said:

If there were no money in music, then Michael would never have done any music.
Everything is about money.

you don't know that, maybe he would make music anyway

and no, not everything is about money, I tottally disagree with that

[soap]

magic, on 20 March 2011 - 09:02 PM, said:

And I always thought Michael was very much used by everyone to gain money. It is not he that ppl care about, it was how much money he can bring to them.

And this is not bad. It's the way of life.

[soap]

Phantom, on 22 March 2011 - 12:11 PM, said:

you don't know that, maybe he would make music anyway

and no, not everything is about money, I tottally disagree with that

I do know that. Making music is a job. A job is about making money. Make a living out of what you love to do.
We can't live without money in this world.
Everything in the music business is about money.

[magic]

it's one thing if you earn money in the good way and other thing is if you gain money by using somebody else or somebody's else achievement and work. I lose respect for those who choose the other way.

[soap]

magic, on 22 March 2011 - 08:07 PM, said:

it's one thing if you earn money in the good way and other thing is if you gain money by using somebody else or somebody's else achievement and work. I lose respect for those who choose the other way.

You can't say it like that. All companies do this.
Just think of record companies.
Everytime an artist sell a record, they make money.

The same could be said about everything you buy in a store. Someone invented it and now others are profiting from it.

[magic]

soap, on 23 March 2011 - 01:01 PM, said:

You can't say it like that. All companies do this.
Just think of record companies.
Everytime an artist sell a record, they make money.

The same could be said about everything you buy in a store. Someone invented it and now others are profiting from it.

those are two different things, Nik

We need food or whatever you say ppl work for to get on stores but I doubt we need another book about Michael written by somebody who Michael tried to avoid for the past years.

Again, ppl have to find a job rather than use somebody's else career. It is simple as that.

[soap]

magic, on 23 March 2011 - 01:32 PM, said:

those are two different things, Nik

We need food or whatever you say ppl work for to get on stores but I doubt we need another book about Michael written by somebody who Michael tried to avoid for the past years.

Again, ppl have to find a job rather than use somebody's else career. It is simple as that.

No. It is the same thing. Michael Jackson is a trademark like almost anything else.
I'm not talking about food. But all stuff you can buy.
And this is a job.
It is a job to make what people want and need.

[magic]

As I said, I don't need another book about Michael. There is already plenty of books. What new he could tell? He wasn't even that close to Michael for past decades.

But of course there are other ppl who would collect everything as long as there is Michael's name on it and in this case, Jermaine is using the opportunity. As actually he was doing all the time since Jackson 5 split up. He always were playing Michael's spokesperson. I remember that. Once he even announced the Jackson 5 tour with Michael attending and Michael released a statement it's not true lol

For me this is using Michael's name to get money and fame cause he couldn't do it with his own career.

[soap]

Just because you don't need a book.
If noone wanted a book, then he probably wouldn't write it.
I might not buy the book. I don't buy many books anyway.

Of course he is using the Michael name, which is very good. Lets keep it alive forever.
It has nothing to do about his own career.
We can't all make a career out of our own name. Very few people are able to do this.

So what he does is good and respected. By others (Maybe not you)
It's what every normal people would do. See an opportunity and take it.