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Sarah Palin's memoirs?

Speculation is mounting that the Alaska Governor and former Republican vice presidential nominee is closing in on a deal that could net her $7 million to tell her story. Reuters reports that Palin is in high demand:

"Every publisher and a lot of literary agents have been going after her,' said Jeff Kleinman, an agent at Folio Literary Management.



Mediabistro doubts Palin is close to a deal, but the price tag would place her in pretty exclusive company. Few other prominent politicians have inked such lucrative deals.

At the top of the, ah, shelf: Former President Bill Clinton's deal to publish "My Life" in 2004. Clinton got over $10 million (AP puts the figure at $15 million) for his tell-all, and he delivered with record-breaking sales. Fueled by a public eager for lurid details of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, first-day sales of "My Life" topped 400,000 copies, a record for non-fiction that shattered the previous record held by none other than Hillary Clinton.

But the former first lady still did okay. She netted an $8 million advance to pen her 2003 memoir, "Living History" -- falling just shy of the standing record at the time for a non-fiction advance ($8.5 million for Pope John Paul II in 1994).