Sarah Palin’s failure set to reap her $7m book deal

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: Times Online

She failed to save John McCain from presidential election doom, but Sarah Palin, the Republican senator’s controversial running mate, may yet emerge as the saviour of the American publishing industry. Literary agents are queueing up to sign her to a book deal that could earn her up to $7m.

With Barack Obama’s election victory certain to generate dozens of volumes from politicians, strategists and journalists – and with another shelfload of memoirs expected from members of President George W Bush’s administration – Palin’s personal account of her tumultuous introduction to national politics is widely regarded as the book most likely to repay a multi-million-dollar advance.

“She’s poised to make a ton of money,” said Howard Rubenstein, New York’s best-known public relations adviser.

“Every publisher and a lot of literary agents have been going after her,” added Jeff Klein of Folio Literary management.

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[Xipe Totec]

1. Does the book have a centerfold? n/t

[hangman86]

4. Oh it'll have pictures alright.

Or else her fan base wouldn't buy them.

[KewlKat]

2. I'm betting she'll have blown the whole 7M before the book

even hits the streets. Shop till you drop Sarwhaaaa.

[qwlauren35]

3. Move Over, Monica.

Some people are perfectly capable of stretching out their 15 minutes.

Heck, look at Joe the Plumber!

[fed_up_mother]

5. Can you say "ghost writer"

[az chela]

6. Who the hell would want to read a book about that dumb bitch

[Lasher]

13. Other dumbasses.

They identify with her, you betcha.

[ACTION BASTARD]

40. Attention WAL-MART shoppers!

The drooling mongoloids that shop there by choice would buy a coloring book from this cross-humper.

[acmavm]

7. There's something(s) very wrong about this. But it just makes me do

disgusted and discouraged that I won't start listing the reasons why.

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. Y'all didn't see this coming? - bad press is better than NO press, not a new idea . .

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Sarah had a good look at the inside from the inside.

Flame at her all you want, but I don't think she is stupid.

She's getting more press than any other Governor ain't she?

And she ain't spending the millions Obama did . . .

All the name-calling denigrating remarks just work in her favor . .

Not exactly a new concept . . .

AND

She has invites to Letterman, Oprah and more

Quite an achievement for an "idiot"

Wake up - she IS important

Remember this - The American voters/population allowed the BushGang to slaughter thousands(that's a conservative estimate) of innocents in the last 8 years.

So Sarah don't scare me, or worry me.

O.K.?

I'm more concerned about what the racist population is going to do in the near future . .

[dipsydoodle]

9. Her lack of command of the language leads me to believe

that if she writes it herself it will join the famous list of the world's shortest books - Italian War Hero's, Famous Belgians, Israeli Olympic Track Gold Medal Winners etc.

[rocktivity]

10. She can't talk

What makes them think she can write?


rocknation

[PatrynXX]

11. Why not, Paris Hilton gets paid millions just to show up.

So the comparisons between Palin and Paris continue

[liberalcanuck]

37. Sooooooooo true. Great point - if Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt can be famous for

doing pretty much nothing then Palin was a shoe-in for a big payday.

Maybe Palin will be doing the award ceremony circuit soon for a small king's ransom.

[NCDem60]

12. Why not? People have made millions for far worse.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

14. I expect she'll need a ghost writer

she can't speak properly so her writng would be worse?

[GentryDixon]

15. I do not have enough oxygen to listen to her

I cannot imagine reading her. I would be in Intensive Care, for sure.

[ShortnFiery]

16. This sickens me. However, one bright spot is that she may not write that book while she's Governor

because there's something in the AK law that prohibits government employees from such "outside" double dipping endeavors.

Just perhaps, her star will fade out soon ENOUGH. One can only hope.

[lib_wit_it]

31. Oh, right, and there's no way she'd get around that. Have you forgotten--Mheaav-rick! nt

[whistle]

17. That could only happen with the backing of the James Dobson money

[Patsy Stone]

18. Neiman Marcus, here we come! (nt)

[creeksneakers2]

19. There has to be at least some

juicy revelations.

[scarface2004]

20. i wouldn t bet on that loser!!!

you gotta be effing kidding me! that waste of paper and ink will hit the bargain bin before its published!!!!

[Release The Hounds]

21. Will she still be Joe Six Pack?

[Demeter]

22. They Can Save Themselves a Lot of Time and Money By Filing It in the Remainder Bin Directly

Another unbought, unread piece of GOP propaganda to be handled out to the addled faithful so as to boost it onto the NYT Book List. Mark me unimpressed.

[all.of.me]

23. Title: The Book of Lies

Or: Narcissist at Work

Oh boy, there are too many great ideas to write down! lol

[Suji to Seoul]

24. The title will be "Oops, I Didn't Do It Again" by Ghost Writer

Six weeks and it will be in the bargain bin for $1.

[Lorien]

25. " The audacity of (a) Dope"

the GOP doing it's part to validate the Peter Principle once again.

[lib_wit_it]

32. That's the *best* title ever for her "book" !! nt

[juno jones]

26. Coming to a grocery checkout near you. n/t

[onehandle]

27. Toilet paper would be cheaper than buying her book. nt

[GoddessOfGuinness]

28. Title: "You Bitchya"

[clspector]

29. What's really galling is not only

will she not be writing this herself, but this is taking advances out of the pockets of real writers. This creature has done NOTHING of merit. She's a walking example of the triumph of avarice and naked ambition over substance. And instead of intellect or intellectual curiosity, she is sub-literate and proud of being dumb as dirt. (Okay, so that's a hard go on dirt.)

It's bad enough that the world of letters is sinking into a vast morass, but that this twinkie is considered bankable makes me throw up in my mouth a little every time I think of it. Ew.

[Hardrada]

30. She is a character out of the Middle Ages. Some climber

getting into the higher ranks by sure tenacity and, dare I say it, AUDACITY. She is intelligent but in the way the smarter Nazis were or Empress Theodora. As a historian, I am rather awed that this sort of phenomenon persists!!

[asksam]

39. No. What's *really* galling about this...

... is that she's going to get $7 million and be set financially for life rather than going to prison for being a member of this corrupt administration currently occupying the White House.

[gauguin57]

33. Gosh, I hope they translate it into English after she writes it.

May she and Taaaahd choke on every piece of that filthy money.

[truthisfreedom]

34. Another Republican Elitist Celebrity Cashing in on Fame and perversion

*yawn*

[Lithos]

35. The irony

An illiterate saving the literate book industry.

L-

[hadrons]

36. If the publisher is going to appeal to her "base", $7 million is a lot for a coloring book

[underpants]

38. "Vanna Speaks" was a best seller in 1987

[Botany]

41. Book Title

Also by Sarah Palin

[hunter]

42. How else would the corrupt bastards pay her off?

A book looks like honest work, and it doesn't matter if they end up selling most copies in bulk to right wing front groups to give away to their captive morans or fuel the furnaces of hell.

Go Sarah! Your bosses owe you big for that nasty bit of work.

Go home to Alaska, shoot a GOP moose or something from your snow machine if it makes you feel better, and please don't bother us again.

[democraticco12]

43. her book will tank

I wouldn't wish to read a book from someone who can't tell whether Africa is a country or a nation.

[customerserviceguy]

45. Nope

McLame got over fifty million votes. If even one percent of those voters buys this book at full retail, that will make it a ton of money for the publisher. The right wing will push this hard, large sales figures will be "proof" that McInsane's failure was not CB's fault.

There are a lot of ways to make mediocrity pay. Anybody remember William Hung? Or Pauley Shore?

[melody]

44. Can you say "remaindered"? n/t