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Foremost among them is the richness of the subject material - and here Palin, with her colorful family, devoted following and knack for inciting controversy at every turn, is a ghostwriter's dream. "Your worst enemy is a boring subject," says Sally Jenkins, co-author of Lance Armstrong's 2000 best seller, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life, and other sports memoirs. "And [Palin] certainly isn't that...
...also helps to have a subject who knows what message she wants to get across. Palin was apparently clear from the start about her book's mission: "It will be nice through an unfiltered forum to get to speak truthfully about who we are and what we stand for and what Alaska is all about," she told the Anchorage Daily News in May, when the deal was first announced. Memoirists with fuzzier goals may find the process slowed by handlers or publishers who bicker over how the book should read, ghostwriters...
...Tenet's 2007 memoir, which was laden with sensitive information and required extensive document research, took about 18 months, says ghostwriter Bill Harlow. "If it's more personality driven, I think it's probably easier to finish in a shorter period of time," he says.(See pictures of Sarah Palin's style evolution...
...last potential time sink is steeping the ghostwriter in the author's voice well enough that he or she can channel it convincingly. Palin's singular rhetorical style is a boon on that score. "The fun part is when you get to the point that they don't even notice it wasn't something they actually said," says Jenkins. "Sarah Palin, in her own odd vernacular, is incredibly sort of quotable and eloquent, in her own Palinesque...
...manuscript arrives on schedule, says Steve Culpepper, executive director of editorial at Globe Pequot Press, editors huddle with sales and marketing staff members, among others, to determine whether it's big enough to be worth crashing out quickly. The company's president makes the final call. (See where Sarah Palin is going next...