Sarah Palin has a book contract estimated to be in the millions.
You knew it was coming: Sarah Palin is ready to tell her side, agreeing to publish a memoir with HarperCollins. The book comes out in Spring 2010 — the year she is up for re-election.
Oh, boy. I mean — she can hardly speak.
Wait! She’ll have a collaborator!
Palin’s book will address, and complicate, the push-pull between home and public life. With the release date just one year away, the governor will have to work quickly. Barnett said that the governor has formed an outline in her mind, but has yet to start writing. Burnham said Palin did not submit any writing samples when she met with HarperCollins executives in Washington, earlier this year. She will work with a collaborator, to be determined.
“She’s obviously going to be engaged in the whole process of the book,” said Burnham, adding that the role of the collaborator would depend on who was chosen.
I dunno. Maybe it’s my finicky engineer’s mind kicking-in — but wouldn’t it be smarter to define the job before hiring someone to do it?
Suppose — and we’re just supposin’ here — suppose Palin decides she’d like to collaborate with Arnold Schwarzenegger? I’m sure he’s a nice guy, and all, but what would he contribute to her memoir? Free her up to write by running Alaska while Sarah picks her way through that i-before-e stuff?
Suppose, on the other hand, she picked me? I think and write in sentences, and everything. You know. I probably make better coffee, too. All she’d have to do is run Alaska, as her constituents pay her to do, and then read the final product carefully to find the ‘easter eggs’ I’d planted.
So it matters, you see, what the collaborators duties actually are.
But maybe she figures that going at things bass-ackwards proves she’s ready to take her place in Washington.
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