Washington, October 01: Former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue: An American Life, has become a best-seller – more than six weeks before it’s released.
Going Rogue will be released November 17, yet pre-orders on Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com have pushed the book to the number one position.
The Associated Press reports the book is out-selling Senator Ted Kennedy’s True Compass and Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, his first novel since The Da Vinci Code and one of the year’s most anticipated releases.
The book was co-written with Lynn Vincent in four months with an initial print run of 1.5 million copies, Mr Vincent is on leave as a features editor at WORLD Magazine, a periodical geared toward “born again” Christians.
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 shopping season. It was originally scheduled for a spring 2010 publication date.
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.
—Agencies