Update 9/30/09 - Amazing: Palin's book number one on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller list; unprecedented advance sales!
Forty-eight days before the release and she’s already topped Dan Brown’s latest conspiracy-theory casserole at both top retailers. [more..]
(Original Post) -It should be a blockbuster. The initial print run is for 1.5 million copies! Michelle Malkin explains:
"The title is “Going Rogue” — an allusion to the in-fighting between Team Sarah and the McCainiancs that broke out in the last weeks of the campaign."
John Fund adds:
Sarah Palin may no longer be governor of Alaska, but she’s certainly destined to become a best-selling author. HarperCollins, her publisher, has announced the print-run of her memoir will be a staggering 1.5 million copies — equal to the print-run of Senator Ted Kennedy’s posthumous autobiography published this month. Publishing sources tell me that such a giant run is only ordered up when there is clear evidence from booksellers and surveys of massive interest in a book.
The book, which will be published on November 17, was a crash project. Ms. Palin actually moved temporarily to San Diego after she resigned the governorship in July so she could be close to her collaborator, Lynn Vincent. I bumped into Ms. Vincent, a former editor at the Christian-oriented World magazine, in New York a few weeks ago, where she had parked herself in a hotel close to the offices of HarperCollins while working on the book’s final edits. [more..]
Me: What caught my eye was that Palin collaborated with Ms. Vincent of World magazine. Vincent is a fine writer, and would be an exceptional choice to express Christian perspectives with sympathy and skill.