HarperCollins has announced it will be publishing a memoir by failed vice presidential candidate and current Alaska governor Sarah Palin next year when she is running for re-election. According to an Associated Press wire story by Hillel Italie, “Palin’s memoir, currently untitled, will cover her personal and political life, from her childhood in Alaska and last year’s campaign to her political beliefs and her family life, including the pregnancy of her teenage daughter, Bristol Palin, who gave birth in December to a baby boy, Tripp. (She and the baby’s father, Levi Johnston, have since ended their relationship.)”

The book will be co-published by HarperCollins imprint Harper and its Christian imprint Zondervan. Terms were not disclosed, although some of them will have to be on her financial disclosure filings when she runs for re-election. Italie reports it is “widely expected” to be a multi-million dollar deal.

Says Palin, “Being a voracious reader, I read a lot today and have read a lot growing up. And having that journalism degree, all of that, will be a great assistance for me in writing this book, talking about the challenges and the joys, balancing the work and parenting, and, in my case, work means running the state.”

As for her voracious reading, Italie notes that two years ago “Palin told PBS’s Charlie Rose that her favorite writers were C.S. Lewis (‘very, very deep’) and a Runner’s World columnist, Dr. George Sheehan.”