Collins Crashes Palin Satire
By Lynn Andriani -- Publishers Weekly, 9/23/2008 2:59:00 PM
Another Sarah Palin book will be in bookstores soon: Terminatrix: The Sarah Palin Chronicles (Collins) will join 101 Things You—And John McCain—Didn’t Know About Sarah Palin as the latest humor book on the vice presidential candidate. The book is a satire written by “the editors of the Wasilla Iron Dog Gazette,” although, in the spirit of satire, two HarperCollins editors, Bruce Nichols and Adam Bellow, are “speaking on behalf of the authors.” It features digitally altered photographs of Palin and her family, annotated in “the Governor’s own hand,” which provide “a fascinating running commentary on her life.”
Nichols said the idea for the book arose at a brainstorming meeting on Monday, September 8. “By Tuesday afternoon we were going full blast,” he said. The book went to the printer on September 15, and Nichols already has finished books in hand. The $9.95 trade paperback will officially go on sale October 14, although Nichols expects copies to be in stores before then. Collins will ship 20,000 copies of the 96-page book.
