Palin’s memoir coming up next year

Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin has decided to tell her side of the story and agreed to publish a memoir with HarperCollins. The book will hit the market in spring 2010, the same year she is up for re-election.

The Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate decided this is a good time to tell her real story, fed up with want the mainstream media and blogosphere had been written and spoken about her. Palin’s memoir, so far without a certain title, will describe her personal and political life, from her childhood in Alaska and her life as a political figure to her beliefs and family. Apparently, the writer will also include events from her daughter life, Bristol Palin, who gave birth to a baby boy in December.

The 45 year old governor, who graduated in 1987 from the University of Idaho with a degree in journalism, thinks this will be a great opportunity for her to repair her and her family’s public image and to straight up some beliefs about her loved ones.
Since the elections have ended, rumors about a Palin book were all over the media. Even if Republicans Sen.John McCain and Palin were defeated by Democrats Barack Obama and Joseph Biden, Palin become a conservatives’ favorite, a tabloid gossip story and because she was the only candidate without a written memoir, the perfect target for a publishing deal.

The memoir trend became a “got to have” within White House seekers, mainly after Obama’s “The Audacity of Hope” and “Dreams From My Father” made him a suitable stylist and storyteller.

Palin’s book will be co-released by the HarperCollins imprint Harper and for the Christian market, by the HarperCollins-owned Zondervan, which published Rick Warren’s “The Purpose Driven Life”. Palin chose Robert Barnett to handle her publishing negotiations, as he is one of the presidential of literary representatives, with clients such as Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. With the release date just one year ahead, Palin hasn’t got much time to work, although Barnett said the governor has not started to write just yet and will surely work with a collaborator, unknown at this time.

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