Already a Best-Seller Top Up Sarah Palin "Going Rogue" Due Out

Already a Best-Seller Top Up Sarah Palin

NEW YORK — Move over, Dan Brown. Sarah Palin is on top of the charts.
Just two days after HarperCollins announced that Palin's "Going Rogue" had been moved up from the spring to Nov. 17, preorders Wednesday night for the former Alaska governor's memoir made it No. 1 on both Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com.
Among the books "Going Rogue" is outselling: Sen. Ted Kennedy's "True Compass," Mitch Albom's "Have a Little Faith" and Brown's "The Lost Symbol," his first novel since "The Da Vinci Code" and, perhaps until now, the year's most anticipated release.
Palin, in collaboration with author Lynn Vincent, completed her 400-page book just four months after agreeing to terms with HarperCollins, which plans a first printing of 1.5 million copies. It's the first book by Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor until suddenly resigning last summer.
She is regarded as a possible 2012 contender for the presidency. Past candidates, notably Barack Obama, have been helped by writing best-selling books, invaluable platforms for politicians to tell their story.
The response at Alaska bookstores was mixed.
A woman taking a call at Waldenbooks in Wasilla, Palin's hometown, said she was pre-ordering a copy at that moment and there had been "lots of interest." She would not give her name but referred a reporter to her boss, Borders district manager Grant Larsen, who said interest had been strong both in Wasilla and Anchorage.
Former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's memoirs will be released November 17 under the title "Going Rogue: An American Life," her publisher said Tuesday.
Publishing house HarperCollins said that the ex-Alaska governor finished her book weeks earlier than anticipated, allowing it to get into bookstores ahead of the Christmas holiday shopping season.
The book originally was scheduled for a spring 2010 publication date, HarperCollins said in a statement.
"Going Rogue," a pejorative term, referred to allegations that while a running mate to Republican presidential candidate John McCain, Palin was also a loose cannon surreptitiously plotting her own political ascent, including a possible 2012 White House run.
Going Rogue, a pejorative term, referred to allegations that while a running mate to Republican presidential candidate John McCain, Mrs Palin was also a loose cannon surreptitiously plotting her own political ascent, including a possible 2012 White House run.
Mr McCain and Mrs Palin lost the 2008 presidential race to Barack Obama.
Last week Mrs Palin made a paid speaking appearance in Hong Kong, but mostly has been out of the spotlight while working on her book.
NBC reported that Mrs Palin worked fulltime for nearly four months to finish the book, moving her family to San Diego, California for the month of August so she could work on the project with Mr Vincent.