Melville House Books

A week after signing a book deal (see the earlier MobyLives report) Sarah Palin has announced who her ghostwriter will be — or rather, her publisher, HarperCollins, announced it via the Christian magazine World, and it was then posted here: on Palin’s blog, the Sarah Palin Information Blog, home of the Sarah Palin Web Brigade. And the winner is: Lynn Vincent, the features editor of World. 

According to the announcement, “Vincent, 46, has collaborated on four previous memoirs. Her most popular collaboration, Same Kind of Different As Me (Thomas Nelson, 2006), tells the remarkable story of Ron Hall, a wealthy white art dealer, and Denver Moore, an illiterate homeless black man, as their lives converge unexpectedly. The book has sold nearly half a million copies and has stayed on the New York Times best-seller list for more than 59 consecutive weeks, including 29 weeks at No. 15 or above.”

Says World’s editor in chief Marvin Olasky, “Lynn has been World’s best writer of action stories ranging from shots fired in a Texas church to raging fires on California hillsides. She combines guts and grace, as does Sarah Palin, so the book should be outstanding.â€

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.