Publishers Courting Sarah Palin - RANDOM HOUSE for a Random Mind, eh? Wonder how much she'll get...

[symbolman]

Even though last week's backlash still stings, former Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin can look forward to a sweet book deal. According to Page Six, Random House is "eager" to talk with her, and an unnamed publishing insider predicted Palin would score a deal with somebody by the end of the month (which is a few weeks earlier than we predicted last week).

In addition, Linda Mann offered some hilarious cross-platform advice for the popular candidate. Mann is the president of Mann Media, regularly booking celebrities for television: "Her buzz is incredible. She has car-wreck appeal. You're compelled to watch, hoping she'll say the dumbest things possible. I'd propose a show combining her love of fashion and lack of brainpower -- 'Project Dumbway.'"

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/on/publishers_courting_sarah_palin_100181.asp

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This may be GOOD for ME in a wierd way. I wrote a memoir over the past five years about my time in the 1970's, during the Wild West days of the Pipeline Construction, when I was part of a project by the Dept of Energy, looking for Uranium in ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) with a team of helicopters piloted by armed and reckless Vietnam veterans, even crashed there, stole a chopper a few times, went to Deadhorse, where I watched in horror as a mother caribou gave birth in a pool of slag among 55 gallon drums - the baby died immediately, the mother a little later, with a tongue coated with oil, thick as peanut butter, gagged herself to death.. as oil workers laughed.

The book is about a LOT more than that, called THE JESUS BOLT - which is that short piece of metal at the top of a chopper which holds all the blades together, keeps them from flying apart.. as the pilot's liked to say, "You lose your Jesus bolt, the next person you'll be talking to is Jesus, Himself.." :)

Lived for two years in the bush up there, in a mobile, MASH-like camp filled with oddballs, and we thundered over the tundra and mountains 18 hours a day under a relentless midnight sun, lots of incredible events, I call it an "eco-adventure" with balls, nothing candy ass about my story, as opposed to PALIN's Bizarre Alaska..

Hopefully there will be a push for REAL Alaska stories, and I can jump in the mix - one promotor, the former President of Marvel Comics read my book and dubbed me, "The Hunter S. Thompson of Alaska" which I'm very glad to hear, he GOT IT :)

Small world, ain't it?

Better hope she's got a HELLUVA Ghost Writer, who can hack his way though her "Word Salad" with a machette.. :)

[Not a robought]

1. How many editors will it take to screw in a lightbulb?

I imagine scores. Some may not see the book on shelves before they breath their last handling the countless revisions to make something cogent.

[symbolman]

2. Plus she'll charge them $300 a day for Per Diem

so she can write it from Alaska instead of New York :)

[Athens30603]

3. Chances are good she won't write it herself

She'll dictate notes to a writer, work in close contact with a writer and someone else will do the actual writing. It will be "by" her but ghostwritten. This kind of thing can be done super quickly and if a publisher gets it out before Christmas they'll make a million bucks.

[symbolman]

4. Then of course there'll be a million "other" Palin books

by god knows who else, right wingers, hopefully someone like Will Pitt, if he was smart, would dive on this, with any credentials you could make some good money off this clown woman.. :)

Me, I'm just trying to raise awareness as to the bio-diversity, after having lived there in the bush..

[symbolman]

5. She already published a "Hockey Mom, Gee Lookit Me!" book

That were selling for basically a penny an ounce before getting chosen then getting The Bum's Rush.. :)

[Blackhatjack]

6. Well Bush Needs To Hire Her To Hawk His Memoirs Since He Got No Takers... n/t