While I haven’t confirmed this with anybody who works for Harpercollins, according to Entertainment Weekly, Sarah Palin is poised to write another book.

A few folks might scratch their heads this news, yet it makes perfect sense: she shifted a lot of units for her publisher, and probably more than made up for her advance (it helps that she used money from her PAC to buy copies of the books, as well as pay for her own publicity tour), so it would stand to reason that Harpercollins would rush another book.

In fact, I think we can safely assume that she sold more books than 80% of the Harpercollins roster in 2009, so why wouldn’t they?

Time will tell whether she will ever appeal to an audience beyond her base (which is a significant) in a national election, but if politics ever falls through for her, she can at least look forward to a comfortable living cranking out books that will continue to polarize the public.

(Photo credit Mike Theiler/Reuters-taken from EW.com…is it me, or does that hat make her look rather Castro-esque?)