Palin To Get 11 Million Dollar Book Deal
According to Mark Silva at Swamp Politics, and just announced on MSNBC, Sarah Palin is shopping around her memoirs. It appears that with 11 Million Dollars, the not so affluent Palin family could be moving on up to the East Side. I wonder if it will be called, ”You Betcha?”
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by Mark Silva
Sarah Palin shopping for a book deal?
$11 million for the story of the hockey-mom from Alaska who ran for vice president?
Michael Muskal of the Los Angeles Times writes that Robert Barnett of the Washington legal world, the book deal czar, is working with Palin. Barnett sealed the book deals for both Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton.
Barnett has declined to comment, our colleague notes. “But a variety of published sources, including the Hollywood Reporter, said that Barnett was on board in helping to sell a Palin book….
“Presumably, the book would tell her side of the 2008 presidential election, when the GOP nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, plucked Palin out of relative obscurity and offered her the vice presidential spot. Though she was a darling of conservatives and ignited the Republican base whenever she appeared in public, Palin has made it known that she had a difficult time with McCain’s strategists.”
Palin, whose family is not wealthy, could earn a great deal from such a book. In recent months, “reports of her wanting as much as $11 million for her memoirs have surfaced, though she could get far less,” Muskal notes.
Former First Lady Laura Bush just sold her memoirs for less than $2 million. But she was a librarian. Imagine what a pit-bull turned hockey mom with a little lipstick can fetch.
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