Because you gotta strike while the iron is hot in show business, S.C. First Lady Jenny Sanford’s book Staying True will come out in February of this year instead of May.
At 240 pages, the book will be approximately four times longer than our recent Palmetto Power 100 list, which our founding editor Sic Willie wrote from December 27-31, 2009 (while simultaneously maintaining South Carolina’s awesomest new media outlet).
Pay attention, publishers.
Anyway, Mrs. Sanford ranked No. 19 on that list, just ahead of her philandering husband, Gov. Mark Sanford.
“In this candid and compelling memoir, the first lady of South Carolina reveals the private ordeal behind her very public betrayal—and offers inspiration for anyone struggling to keep faith during life’s most trying times,” the book’s advance preview reads.
Hmmm … private ordeal, huh? Not for long …
“In Staying True, Jenny Sanford recalls her shock and anguish upon discovering that her husband was having an affair with a woman in Argentina, and the further pain when she learned—just a day ahead of most Americans—that he had not ended the affair when she believed he had. She reveals the source of her determination to be honest and forthright instead of the victim in the tabloid passion play that gripped the nation in June 2009.”
Sheesh … “passion play?”
Anyway, no word yet on whether or not Meredith Baxter Birney has been asked to play Jenny in the movie version of Staying True. Also, no word yet on whether or not Eric Roberts will be cast as the unfaithful Palmetto State governor, although our founding editor is reportedly “all over that action.”
Staying True is being published by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, Inc.
Here’s the book’s cover (click to enlarge) …
Oh, and for those of you wondering about the whole “TM” thing, here’s a refresher …
UPDATE: One last thing, before we forget, here’s the Amazon.com pre-order page for Staying True, in case padding the pockets of millionairesses is your thing …
By Old Yeller January 5, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Oh Willie — you’ve become the liberal media elite.
Your comment “padding the pockets of millionairess” is the most common (lazy) low hanging fruit picked by the liberal media that abhors wealth (all kinds: earned, inherited, lottery — whatever). I look forward to you using the term “fat cat” when describing any public ceo — a personal fave of mine.
Try to keep in mind — as much as you may hate this — wealth is good in this country. It means that somewhere, somehow, someone did something of value and merit. It typically raises the quality of life (for everyone). It is the root of capitalism. I got no probs with inherited wealth — what is anyone working for anyway — to better themselves and their kids. You need to accept this.
I hope Jenny makes a buttload off this book. Then she too can waste her time looking at and commenting on this dumb blog like me.
By countryboy January 5, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Won’t read the book even if the local library gets it and I could read it for free. Personally, I think there is a reason Mark wandered off the reservation. Not saying he should be excused, just saying I don’t think she is 100% without fault in the matter.
By Tiny Elvis January 5, 2010 at 5:20 pm
What Old Yeller was struggling mightily to say was: “greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works…”
By fitsnews January 5, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Good points all … of course if FITS is the liberal MSM, then this country is in for a world of hurt.
-FITS
By Nyet January 5, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Holy She-ite Batman. Am I reading something into your cast of characters that wasn’t intended? This would be a new kink in the line for sure.
http://www.examiner.com/x-27745-SF-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m12d2-Gay-revalation-Family-Ties-actress-Meredith-Baxter-Birney-says-shes-a-lesbian-video
By Pat Hendrix January 5, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Dear Jenny, having spent so many years with Governor Vegetable Lasagna, it’s time for you to step and find a younger guy. I’m waiting. You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that so fitting with your beauty. I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night’s light…
Love,
Pat
By Ynotfirst January 5, 2010 at 7:05 pm
And Jakie Knotts strikes again……
By Catherine January 5, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Pat,
“grace and calm”? Dude, she’s frigid. She got a book deal because she likely hasn’t put out since the conception of her fourth son. Is that ok? If you hadn’t gotten laid in over a decade, you’d cheat too. She is not a victim here.
By Old Yeller January 5, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Right on Tiny E.
On second thought Willie, maybe this is the important point here:
Both you and Jenny could be called media whores — with the main difference being that in about 60 days she will cash a check for about 3 mil and you will cash one for 42 cents from google ads.
I got no probs with media whores, in fact I appreciate them — again it’s capitalism working. You’re just not as smart as that poised Jenny. Is that really the root of your bitterness?
By Georgia Bulldozer January 5, 2010 at 7:48 pm
Old Yeller,
Do you have rabies? Just wondering…
GB
By Cancerman January 5, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Jenny Sanfraud, stayiing in south carolina to torment the fuck out of us all along with her piece of shit husband!!!
By scooter January 5, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Will not buy or read either this book, or Palin’s. Way to dull and self-serving for me.
I laugh every time someone calls Jenny a victim. She made her husband who he is, and no one that ever worked around her felt she was warm and fuzzy.
By BIN News Editorial Staff January 5, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Our Funding Editor heard about this.
She said that book would only be worth picking up out of a dumpster behind a “dollar store” at least 6 months after it was tossed out. What cr@p.
The book our Funding Editor wants is the one Markie Sanfraud writes. She is planning to tab the “good parts” to read over and over. Our Funding Editor is such a pervert for adult material. That’s why she reads this porn site.
By Pat Hendrix January 5, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Catherine,
Those were quotes from Governor Milk Toast’s Miss Kitty Diary. I plan on using them with all my ladies.
By Preston January 5, 2010 at 9:39 pm
That cover strangely mirrors the cover of Palin’s book Going Rogue. Am I the only one who sees the similarities?
By James the Foot Soldier January 5, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Catherine – THAT’S the point – pat hasn’t been laid in 10 years.
By Ynotfirst January 6, 2010 at 6:56 am
I believe the book is a farce, a coverup for a more intriguing problem.
I’d give a toenail to see the letter Miss Jenny found last January….
But when all is said and done, the book may be dumped off the shelves as pure fiction.
By Cooter Brown January 6, 2010 at 7:06 am
Da buk luks reeeeedickulus!
Whut eva happen’d t’ readin’ th’ clasicks? If’n Im gonna reed 240 pages ov anythang, it aint gonna be Ms. Priss Pot’s airin’ ov dirty laundrie an’ private familie mattas.
Nope, I’m a gonna reed th’ King James Bible or a gud England-ish translashun ov Virgil’s Aeneid. MAybee sumethin modern, lik Shakespeare.
Hoo knows, but Jennie Sanford wont bee on da list– God bless ‘er!
By ginasc January 6, 2010 at 8:33 am
Funny how Amazon has already dropped the price to $16.50, down from a list price of $25.
Are they trying unload it already?
Hey, is she going to give book tours? Will she be signing books?
By David January 6, 2010 at 8:57 am
Very interesting that they moved it up to February with the filing deadline in March.
Will this mean candidate Sanford?
By tamu88 January 6, 2010 at 9:47 am
Darn!! she will not have a final divorce decree by February 5!! Too bad, she will have to start the book tour as an estranged spouse
By Old Yeller January 6, 2010 at 10:03 am
Catherine, I am sure you are right and Jenny did not put out so it is her fault. I am sure the same is true with Elin Woods. The dudes are the innocent victims here.
Fyi — they (Mark and Tiger) have probs — neurotic narcisstic probs, the sex is incidental.
But still, I am interested in your solution. My guess is you constantly wear a bib — to wipe up all the loads you take.
By Pat Hendrix January 6, 2010 at 10:11 am
James,
Oh no you didn’t?!? My getting laid skills are legendary. Just ask your mom.
By colleen January 6, 2010 at 10:17 am
David-that was one of my first thought, but then she told Barbara Walters that she was not interested in politics. Have other people changed her mind? Like Will for instance, he put her above the Governor on that list.
By Judy January 6, 2010 at 12:57 pm
I just hope that Maria the soul mate and Mark the whatever reads the book and realiaze the DAMAGE and HURT they caused to so many… it is very SAD. I can’t see their “relationship” long term with all that has played out on the very public stage because of his narcissim.
By darth January 6, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Bidding for Ashton Kutcher to play Sic?
By Limelight January 6, 2010 at 1:59 pm
I think a better title would having been “Staying Rogue”, no?
By WorkingTommyC January 6, 2010 at 2:23 pm
J.A.F.D.
“Just Another Freakin’ Distraction!”
By James the Foot Soldier January 6, 2010 at 3:53 pm
pat – oh yes i did :)
Saint Gwen passed away looong ago – necrophylia doesn’t count as getting laid….nor does all that time you spend in the stables of the Charleston carriages…
By SnakeMD January 6, 2010 at 6:21 pm
The book is revenge, pure and simple. It is her way of striking back. He looks like the bastard and she comes off as Saint Mom who raised the perfect sons. Her little sexy beach pose was the first “I ain’t so bad, see…” The problem is–the book is a knife and she will just cause more pain for all her family. In my opinion she is more of a tragic figure than Governor Sanford. At least he fell in love. So sad. Mark should abdicate and spend the rest of his life as a bohemian in Argentina doing the tango with his lover. He has always yearned for something exotic. Mark–strike while the iron is “smoking hot!”
By Jonny D January 7, 2010 at 9:17 am
NOT South Carolina’s “awesomest new media outlet”, South Carolina’s “Most Innovative and Influential ‘New Media’ Source”!, and you can TM that, I give you formal authorization…
And not for nothing but I still think that the name of the book should have been “Tales Of An Ice Princess”.