Former John McCain campaign adviser Nicole Wallace used the frustrations resulting from her work on the McCain-Palin campaign to write her debut novel, Eighteen Acres. The embedded video from Simon & Schuster’s Atria imprint shows a scene from the book launch party at SoHo House.
Wallace began writing her novel immediately after Barack Obama’s win ended the McCain and Sarah Palin’s campaign. The novel explores the ups and downs faced by the first female president and her two female staff members during a re-election battle.
Here’ s more from Publisher’s Weekly: “The book is ‘partly an emotional response to the election’ admitted Wallace, whose contentious relationship with Sarah Palin was spotlighted in Going Rogue. Yet it is not a retaliation (as fun as that sounds). Wallace instead toyed with the genre of political fiction as a medium for exploring the complexity or ‘indignities’ of woman’s role in politics. Drawing mainly from her six years as a senior aid with the George W. Bush administration, she offers a glimpse into the inner workings of the White House from an ambitious female’s perspective.”
Recently, bestselling author Jean Carper spoofed former Governor Palin in a book trailer promoting her Alzheimer’s book. Wearing the Palin hairdo and sporting a decent Palin-accent mimicry allowed for a funny viral poke at the politician. What really put it over the top was Carper’s uncanny ability to appear charmingly ditsy.