Sarah Palin fans are having a late-night release gathering at the Borders in Woodbury for her book, "Going Rogue: An American Life."
The book goes on sale at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, so the store expects customers to stay late on Monday night and hang out in the coffee bar, which is remaining open for the event. Not expected to be present is the former vice presidential candidate, who made her official RNC debut in St. Paul, where she wore clothing bought from the Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis.
Dean Caranicas , GM of the Woodbury bookstore, said: "The customers asked if they could get it as soon as possible, if we would stay open for them if enough people were able to come. This book is looking like one of the hot sellers for the fourth quarter, particularly in non-fiction."
Anticipation and a scheduled appearance with Oprah will have this book rocketing off the shelves.
"I did want to bring up a point with you," Caranicas said. "Sometimes with political books there's a feeling that [someone] is picked as a favor. Borders loves to sell books of any nature and have the widest selection. When it comes down to the nuts and bolts, it's all about selling books."
Caranicas wishes Palin were going to be there, instead of just a cutout of her: "Unfortunately, it's often Chicago and New York that get selected for national events. I don't know if we're too far off the beaten path or what, here. Maybe she'll look at this and say, You know what, I should go to Minnesota ."
Really, a horndog bites? At the current rate of weird news stories churning up, comedian Lizz Winstead won't have time to discuss David Letterman when she comes home for a New Year's Eve performance at Parkway Theater.
"I'm calling it 'WTF Just Happened?'" said Winstead, who flung the F word, although she said promotional material will use the only the letter F. "I think it will be fun."