The Chronicle ran a New York Times story on local pastor Joel Osteen’s big new book deal today:
Multimillion-dollar book deals are usually the realm of presidents, popes and Federal Reserve chairmen, plus the occasional best-selling novelist such as Michael Crichton.
Add to that list Joel Osteen, the pastor of Houston’s Lakewood Church, one of the nation’s largest congregations, and the author of Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential.
Osteen has signed a book deal with Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, that publishing insiders say is potentially one of the richest for a nonfiction book and could bring the author more than $10 million.
How sad that the Chronicle didn’t manage to cover this story with local reporters.
What a whopping deal for Osteen. The preaching of self-help and self-fulfillment is big business.
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