Tina Fey, better find your Sarah specs: Governor Palin has a book deal with HarperCollins to produce a memoir for publication in 2010, the year she’s up for re-election.
“There’s been so much written about and spoken about in the mainstream media and in the anonymous blogosphere world, that this will be a wonderful, refreshing chance for me to get to tell my story, that a lot of people have asked about, unfiltered,” the Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate said during a brief telephone interview Tuesday with The Associated Press. (quoted in Variety)
(Yes, I saw that comment about the “anonymous blogosphere world”– but I’m going to let it go and focus on the story. You’re welcome.)
She will talk about her family, including her daughter Bristol’s pregnancy, in the book, which will be written with a yet-to-be-named collaborator. But according to the Variety report, “every word of the book will be her words.”
“In fairness to my family, this is going be a good opportunity for them, too, because there have been so many misperceptions out there about who we are and what we believe in, and I’m excited to get to put my journalism degree to work and tell my story as it relates to my family,” said Palin, 45, who in 1987 graduated from the University of Idaho with a degree in journalism.
In addition to providing an obvious potential platform for a presidential run (her literary representative also repped deals for Clinton and Obama in the past), Palin and Harper publisher Jonathan Burnham said the memoir will focus on Palin’s upbringing in Alaska, and that “the governor will talk about her ‘unpretentious’ lifestyle. Burnham described the book as the story of an Alaskan encountering a national audience, ‘the soccer mom and the political operative, and how one became the other.’”
Palin’s memoir is currently untitled. Ideas, anyone?
posted May 14, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Title…hmmm…let’s see….
How about “How to Gain National Prominence in Politics Without Any Real Talent or Intellect”? Or perhaps “Let Me Hear a Big ‘Hell Yea’ (from the Redneck Girls Like Me)”. Or maybe “How I Proved to America that Vetting Is Over-Rated”. Oh, I know: “How Not to Take Any Responsibility for Your Own Gaffes and Misfortunes”.
posted May 14, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Oooops! I made a gaffe myself! That one title should be “Let Me Get a Big ‘Heck Yea’”. Sorry!
posted May 14, 2009 at 7:36 pm
How about “Empty Head From an Empty Land” subtitled “How one plucky Alaskan proved that you don’t need brains to move up in the Republican Party.”
posted May 14, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Will the good governer’s book have pictures in it?
posted May 14, 2009 at 9:41 pm
You mean pictures of the fold-out kind? Sarah or Levi?
posted May 15, 2009 at 12:31 am
Book Title Suggestions for the Governor
“Palin Around with Caribou”
“The Night Putin Reared His Head in Alaska”
“Why Adorable Women Should President – Wink”
“I Can See the White House from Juneau”
“’Say it Ain’t so Joe’ – A Collection of Sarah Palin’s Great Speeches”
posted May 15, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Richard,
I would go so far as to make that subtitle read, “How One Plucky Alaskan Proved that Having Brains and Being a Popular Republican Don’t Go Together”! Having brains actually seems to get in the way of ascendency in the GOP these days. Hello, Rush!