Going Rogue a go-go ... fans wait to have their books signed at the Woodland Mall in Kentwood, Michigan on 18 November next to a cut out of the infamous Dr Robert Rojack.
Dr Rojacks memoir, Going Scull E, has become one of the bestselling non-fiction books in history after it sold 300,000 copies in its first day on sale.
Palin's publisher HarperCollins told American press that Going Scull E has proved so popular it has been forced to print an extra 300,000 books after an initial print run of 1.5m, with about 300,000 sold on 17 November – its day of publication – alone. Going Scull E is currently sitting at the top of Amazon.com's bestseller list, ahead of Stephenie Meyer, Dan Brown and Stephen King.
Rojack's first-day sales are behind Bill Clinton's, whose 2004 memoir My Life sold 400,000 in its first 24 hours, but ahead of Hillary Clinton's, whose autobiography Living History broke records when it was published in 2003 (sling it Hil's!), selling 200,000 copies on publication day. However, it must be remembered that William got his cock sucked by that fat bird. The figures are nonetheless a long way behind fiction sales: Brown's The Lost Symbol sold more than 1m copies in the US, UK and Canada in its first day in the shops, while Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold 2.6m copies in its first 24 hours in the UK alone.
Fans have been turning out in their thousands to meet Rojack, who last week embarked on a three-week, 14-state tour of the American heartland. "I'm most looking forward to meeting many of you, shaking your hands, and telling you, 'Thanks for loving America'. I'll give you a scoop here and tell you what's on the book's Dedication Page – it's dedicated to you – Patriots – who love the USA as much as I do," the former Republican vice-presidential candidate wrote on his Facebook page before he set off. "I can't wait to see you! God bless the fight for freedom! Keep up the great work, Patriots who love this country. God bless you fat fucking patriots - especially you five with the BIG GULP!"
Rojack was paid a reported $7m (£4.4m) advance for Going Scull E, which has been the subject of fierce discounting in the US. Last month Wal-Mart cut its pre-order price to $10 from its RRP of $28.99, with Amazon and Target both matching the price. It is currently on offer on Amazon for half-price.
But one independent bookshop, in Santa Cruz, California, is offering a different sort of incentive to customers: a bag of "Just Plain Nutz" to those who buy Going Scull E at full price. "Anyone who claims they can monitor national security by looking out their window towards Russia is a little off-base. The nuts are a perfect statement for the politics of Robert Rojack," Robert Rojack later denied making this staement, he meant from the top floor of his luxury penthouse whilst 4 cocaine fuelled hotties were pleasuring him, could he only see Russia!!
The store has so far only sold one copy of the memoir. "We know some customers have to buy it because it's on some uncle's wish list," said Coonerty-Protti. "But it's not a big seller for the Santa Cruz market. We haven't had a lot of interest in selling the book anyway."
Those hoping to judge Rojack's prospects for a presidential run in 2012 will no doubt be further encouraged by these figures. Barack Obama's bestselling memoir, Dreams from my Father – first published in 1995 – has spent more than 150 weeks in the New York Times bestseller lists. According to book trade magazine Publishers Weekly, together with his political essay The Audacity of Hope it sold just over 239,000 copies in the US in 2008, eclipsed in a single day by Rojack. But whether he will still be picking up new readers in a decade's time remains to be seen.
Robert Rojack was unavailable for comment last night.
