This is going to be awesome:
The deal for the controversial Alaska governor’s as-yet-untitled memoirs, which will detail both her personal and political life, was struck with HarperCollins, with the autobiography set for publication in spring 2010. Financial terms were not disclosed, although rumours late last year suggested the Alaskan governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate could earn up to $7m for telling her story.
“There have been so many things written and said through mainstream media that have not been accurate, and it will be nice through an unfiltered forum to get to speak truthfully about who we are and what we stand for and what Alaska is all about,” Palin, who will write the book with a collaborator, told her local paper, the Anchorage Daily News.
“It will be nice to put my journalism degree to work on this and get to tell my story, Alaska’s story,” said Palin, who graduated from the University of Idaho. She has kept diaries for much of her life, she added, which would help her write the book. “My journaling really ramped up when I found out that I was pregnant with Trig and then Track was going off to war and I found out Bristol was pregnant. When we had those episodes in our lives come to the surface, it was very therapeutic for me,” she told the Alaskan paper.
Someone should tell Sarah that writing your memoirs is not “journalism.” Can you imagine the personal hell that the editor — I mean “collaborator” — at HarperCollins is going to go through? How do you fix “sentences” like these:
“Well, let’s see. There’s ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but ―”
Or:
“When I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism, or maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think, ‘Man, that doesn’t do us any good, women in politics, or women in general, trying to progress this country.”
Or:
“Oil and coal? Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you know, the molecules, where it’s going and where it’s not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first,” Palin said. “So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it’s Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It’s got to flow into our domestic markets first.”