by Mark Silva
From San Diego comes some interesting insight into the woman behind the woman, the professional collaborator helping Alaska's Sarah Palin write Going Rogue.
The 400-page memoir is on such as fast-track that the publisher plans to release it before Thanksgiving -- Nov. 17 -- all 1.5 million copies of Palin's promised book.
Palin spent much of the summer in San Diego with her collaborator, Lynn Vincent, whose most recent collaborative success has become a best-seller with movie rights.
For the past 10 years, the San Diego Union's Diane Bell notes, Vincent has been working for Christian-based World Magazine. She took a leave to write full-time wtih Palin.
Vincent, who settled in San Diego after a Navy career, was stationed at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station as an air traffic controller and later at North Island Naval Air Station before retiring in 1991. Her husband still works in air traffic control.
"When Vincent, 47, was chosen as ghostwriter, the liberal online Huffington Post focused on an earlier book of hers that was critical of the Democratic Party,'' columnist Bell writes. "Vincent is clearly uncomfortable with political pigeonholing and points to her books involving Christian pop singer Michael English, former terrorist Kamal Saleem and Delta Force leader Lt. Gen. William "Jerry" Boykin.
"The best-known of her collaborations, however, is about a millionaire art dealer whose life changed after he befriended a homeless drifter. "Same Kind of Different as Me" has sold more than 560,000 copies. It has spent 75 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list, raised millions of dollars for homeless shelters and grabbed Hollywood's attention. Movie rights were picked up by Mark Clayman, executive producer of "The Pursuit of Happyness." He is working with Ralph Winter (of "X-Men" fame).''
Could Going Rogue: An American Life be destined for the movies?
Tina Fey, as the president likes to say, is all fired up, ready to go.
(Sarah Palin, pictured arriving at the check-in counter at Hong Kong airport last week, during a speaking tour, has completed her memoir just four months after the book deal was announced. (Photo by Kin Cheung / AP) And Actress Tina Fey is pictured with her Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series last month in Los Angeles for her turn as Palin on Saturday Night Live (Photo by Chris Pizzello / AP)
Comments
Mark,
You know you can't write anything about Queen Sarah the Stupid without all of the Wingnuts poping a blood vessel over it. ;)
Posted by: Gorten Zelinsky | September 29, 2009 6:52 PM
A more interesting question, what would you do with this book if it were given to you?
Doorstop?
Paperweight?
Toilet Paper?
Re-gifting for that hard-to-shop-for Republican whackjob in your life?
Burn it like the Nazi-inspired Obamaoid you are?
Write "YOU LIE" on every page and mail it back to her?
Posted by: TheQuittaFromWasilla | September 29, 2009 6:58 PM
Sarah Palin: The Rogue Meteor of Republican Politics!
See her. Hear her whine. As she sears an arc of hot confusion across the clueless suburbs of Alaska. Then feel. As she pumps a pulse of rhetorical fire across the prairie skies and into the living rooms of all the Faux News Viewing Homes of America!
See it now. Hear it now. Know it later.
A Rupert Murdoch Production
Posted by: Big Cheese | September 29, 2009 7:03 PM
Why not be truthful and just say Vincent wrote it?..Will it contain the hillbilly language that Palin actually speaks in??
Posted by: kaye c. | September 29, 2009 7:05 PM
It's way too soon to make a judgement about the book; let's give her a little space here. She'll let us know, in the book, how she thinks and evaluates. We'll know her better after that. Time to be nice, and let her talk. Bashing isn't productive and neither is sarcasm. All that does is cut off cummunication. She's such a good target, though, isn't she.
Posted by: irene | September 29, 2009 7:09 PM
The definition of rogue:
1 : vagrant , tramp
2 : a dishonest or worthless person : scoundrel
3 : a mischievous person : scamp
4 : a horse inclined to shirk or misbehave
5 : an individual exhibiting a chance and usually inferior biological variation
Why bother reading a book by Palin's ghost writers when you can just watch Tina Fey?
Posted by: Gillian | September 29, 2009 7:15 PM
I see a sell-out. She was shown the money by the GOP and by Greta Van Sustren and was taken shopping in NY at the higher end shops and can't pass it by. "Easy Money" in DC is what it is all about. Write a "book" and do a few speaking engagements and you have more money than you ever dreamed of. Think of how many rifles she'll be able to buy.
Posted by: lochnessmonster | September 29, 2009 7:40 PM
Why, in a story about Sarah Palin, would you include the completely inconsequential photo of Tina Fey portraying Sarah Palin?
Posted by: beth | September 29, 2009 8:19 PM
Rouge?
I don't get what makeup has to do with anything.
She's doing a Helena Rubenstein?
Her own line of cosmetics?
Very strange indeed.
Posted by: ornery | September 29, 2009 9:30 PM
Silva,
You are going to have one heck of Christmas this year: the book, the movie, and the action figures. Only 88 days until Santa comes - better be a good little liberal
Posted by: Terry | September 29, 2009 10:02 PM
On a another note Silva, what's VP Biden been up to lately? Didn't he just have some proposal for fighting the 'overseas contingency operations' in Afghanistan?
Must have got lost under all those Palin press releases?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/world/asia/23policy.html
Posted by: Terry | September 29, 2009 10:08 PM
Posted by: Terry | September 29, 2009 10:08 PM
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Quit trying to change the subject, Trickledown Boy.
Posted by: anti terry | September 30, 2009 12:02 AM
Grampy McCain has a book coming out this fall too.
"McCain: Going to the Bathroom Several Times a Night"
Posted by: former Republican | September 30, 2009 12:07 AM
Terry,
I didn't think this was a negative piece on Palin. Could it be Terry has developed a persecution complex to match Bruce and John D's? And what's with all the personal attacks on the authors? If you want propaganda, go over to Newsbusters, we're sick of your whining.
Posted by: wounded animal | September 30, 2009 12:20 AM
OMG! An honor student gets his head bashed in right there in the City of corruption, Chicago. Obama, well he won't say a word about this incident. What? you haven't seen it? I guess they won't show it on MSNBC. Embarrassing to the little god Obama, you know.
Sarah Palin, she's right.
Obama, he's as ineffective as Jimmy Carter. Might as well lock himself up in the White House for the rest of his term.
Mark Silva, your city is a cesspool of corruption and violence and you throw stones at Sarah Palin. You're a joke.
Posted by: Gary | September 30, 2009 3:03 AM
Sarah! mmm....mmm...mmm! She's the gal! mmm...mmm...mmm! Still makes Mark, the liberals and Barry howl! mmm...mmm...mmm! As folks realize they hyped a national disaster!...mmm...mmm...mmm! They continue to lose their once important stature! mmm...mmm...mmm! Fair Americans judge her with respect and have made an honest evaluation. Keep her in the news, her down-home folksy appeal along with the unjust ridicule will just stoke the backlash against Obama and his radicals in Congress, along with the demise of demagogic journalism and those who promoted it.
Posted by: bubba Porter | September 30, 2009 6:16 AM
I can hardly wait to read the book! I love & admire Sarah Palin. Christians have always been and will always be attacked by the non-believing left, who will pay in end-times.
Vincent is a great writer who helped make the Michael English book one I've read several times.
God bless Sarah Palin & Lynn Vincent, and all believers.
Posted by: Celia Perry | September 30, 2009 9:13 AM
Silva - Sarah Palin thanks you for the free publicity. Are you getting a cut of her book deal?
Now can we PLEASE start ignoring her?
Posted by: My Aunt Fanny | September 30, 2009 9:55 AM
Celia, you are not alone!
Millions out there love Sarah.
And love and admire Vincent Price as well!
We also have a little club down in Hyde Park--we make Christmas ornaments out of pine cones----
Our fondest hope is that Sarah might stop by some time, in a lull from the book tour, and give us some pointers........
Posted by: ornery | September 30, 2009 10:09 AM
Ah, leave it to the crackpots out there like Celia and ornery to buck-up and defend this dumb-as-a-rock quitter wack job who couldn't string together two sentences without a ghost writer.
Posted by: gibster | September 30, 2009 10:38 AM
There are at least 20 Republicans who are more qualified to be President that Sarah Palin.
Posted by: butter face | September 30, 2009 10:43 AM
If Sarah Palin were not fairly easy on the eyes not even the knuckledraggers would buy her book. Her story is unremarkable; her "ideas" are mainstream wingnut and could be spewed by any Faux News zombie; the highlight of her "public service" to date consists of being a a quitter/failure.
Butterface: you're being charitable. There are probably 20 Republicans in Wasila as qualified as she.
Posted by: a blinkin | September 30, 2009 11:23 AM
Ah, leave it to the crackpots out there like Celia and ornery to buck-up and defend this dumb-as-a-rock quitter wack job who couldn't string together two sentences without a ghost writer.
Posted by: gibster | September 30, 2009 10:38 AM
Ornery was being facetious. I got a chuckle anyway.
Posted by: a blinkin | September 30, 2009 11:46 AM
She looks terrible in that picture, really old, you betcha by golly! From the looks of things, she has about 10 minutes before her looks go, then we can finally forget her. She has the support of old white Repubs because of her looks. Once they're gone, she's done! Sarah, let's see some fancy pageant walking before you go!
Posted by: Nancy | September 30, 2009 12:18 PM
The only thing missing is Billy mays selling it. Call now and get a free copy of McCain's new book.What the hell was I thinking? or a coupon for his follow up IT"S ALIVE! Out soon from Marvel.
Posted by: Whyareconservativemenhunglikemice | September 30, 2009 1:55 PM
I must confess I was pulling Celia's leg.
But this much is true:
Letterman has found his replacement segment for "Great Moments in Presidential Speechs".
He owes Sarah big time.
Posted by: ornery | September 30, 2009 4:27 PM
Trickled On,
I would think the story of what the current VP is discussing in a change in battle strategy if Afghanistan would be more important than the defeated VP's upcoming book.
Roadkill,
Whining? You libs have a monopoly on that
Posted by: Terry | September 30, 2009 4:39 PM