Sarah Palin Plans Special Edition of Forthcoming Memoir for Christian Readers

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

Not much news in Vanity Fair's epic-length Sarah Palin profile, but there are two tidbits I haven't seen before on the Alaska governor's faithy side. First, Christian publisher Zondervan is issuing a separate, special edition of Palin's forthcoming memoir: 

Soon Palin will take a crack at her own story: she has signed a book contract for an undisclosed but presumably substantial sum, and has chosen Lynn Vincent, a senior writer at the Christian-conservative World magazine, as co-author of the memoir, which is to be published next year not only by HarperCollins but also in a special edition by Zondervan, the Bible-publishing house, that may include supplemental material on faith.

Is there precedent for authors publishing separate editions for Christian readers? I've got a call into Zondervan and will report back.

The second tidbit surrounds the birth of Palin's son Trig last year:

When Trig was born, Palin wrote an e-mail letter to friends and relatives, describing the belated news of her pregnancy and detailing Trig's condition; she wrote the e-mail not in her own name but in God's, and signed it "Trig's Creator, Your Heavenly Father."

Reminds me of those roadside billboards quoting God from a few years back.

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