Sarah Palin Books Update

I've learned a new term today: "crashed books". I couldn't find an official definition on Wikipedia or anywhere else, but this is how Publisher's Weekly describes the latest quick-to-press books on Gov. Sarah Palin. It seems "crashed books" are ones that are written and published quickly in response to a new trend, personality, or news event.

In addition to Epicenter Press' reprint of Sarah Palin's first biography Sarah and Zondervan's recent announcement of its own book Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader, Publisher's Weekly reports that Adams Media will publish 101 Things You--and John McCain--Didn't Know about Sarah Palin by Gregory Bergman. It will be available the first week of October. Based on the title, this one should please hateful Democrats and the Liberal Media alike. Mr. Gregory is the author of such masterpieces as The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy: Daily Wisdom from the World's Greatest Thinkers and WTF?: How to Survive 101 of Life's Worst F*#!-ing Situations. Can't wait to read this one.

Sarah Palin Biography

It's inevitable that when someone bursts onto the national stage, whether they are an athlete or a politician, someone has to write a biography about them, and quickly, to satisfy the demand for people who want to know more about them. Such is the case for the new darling of the Republican Party, Sarah Palin.

Ironically, last night I searched Amazon to see if a book had already been written or was in the works. There was only one, a 159-page hardcover written by Kaylene Johnson and published last April. Expect Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down to be revised and published as a paperback very soon.

Today, another Palin bio was announced by Christian publisher Zondervan Books. Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader, written by Joe Hilley, will be released on October 10.

(Update: Epicenter Press, an Alaska-based publisher of Sarah, has already gone to press with 40,000 copies to meet the demand for the only Palin bio available. The run for the initial hardback edition was only 7,000 copies. Author Kaylene Johnson is also in demand.)