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Palin Signs Book Deal

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted May 12, 2009 6:57 PM CDT

(Newser) – Governor, VP candidate, and now author. Sarah Palin has signed on with HarperCollins to write a memoir that will be published next spring, reports the Anchorage Daily News. Palin will hire a collaborator but says she'll do most of the writing herself. Neither she nor the publisher will say how much she's getting paid, but the lawyer she hired got $12 million for Bill Clinton and $8.5 million for Alan Greenspan.

"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," said Palin.

Sarah Palin, in a file photo.
Sarah Palin, in a file photo.   (AP Photo/Chris Miller, File)
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.   (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin greets supporters before giving a speech at the Vanderburgh County Right to Life fundraising dinner in Evansville, Ind., last month.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin greets supporters before giving a speech at the Vanderburgh County Right to Life fundraising dinner in Evansville, Ind., last month.   (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
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COMMENTS
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ChickenChopper
Jun 15, 2009 1:44 AM CDT
shes got to put them on paper to remember them
ChickenChopper
Jun 15, 2009 1:43 AM CDT
dang it! this was gonna be my comment!
Shannonals
Jun 12, 2009 4:13 AM CDT
Doesn't one write a memoir at the end of a career, not while your still in office? I would think the Govenor would be running her state day-to-day functyion vice worrying about her memoirs.

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