He’s not quite even a senator yet, but Illinois Senator-elect Barack Obama “has landed a three-book deal worth $1.9 million,” reports Nicole Ziegler Dizon in an Associated Press wire story. The Crown Publishing Group and Random House Children’s Books announced that “Obama will write two books for adults and one for children,” says Dizon, although a spokesman of Obama’s does point out that “The contract is contingent on the approval of the Senate Ethics Committee.” Obama’s previous book, his Dreams From My Father from 1995, “jumped onto best seller lists after his keynote address to the Democratic National Convention.”