Sen. John McCain never claimed to have invented the Internet or even to have used it that much.
But his daughter Meghan has blogged her way to a book deal said to be in the “high six figures,” according to The New York Observer.
In her book, she’ll “explore what it means to be a progressive Republican in the party today” according to a news release from her publisher, Hyperion Books, a division of the Disney Company.
McCain will also “delve into what it means to love the Republican Party, while not always fitting in.”
A 24-year-old Columbia University graduate, McCain blogs for the online The Daily Beast.
She also has her own blog, McCainBlogette.com, on which she first posted comments and photos during her father’s presidential campaign.
McCain is the oldest of the four children of John McCain and his second wife, Cindy Hensley McCain. (John McCain also has three children from his first marriage.)
Meghan McCain has been an enrolled Republican for only a year.
She voted for Democrat John Kerry in 2004, and she’s to the left of her father (and many other Republicans) on a variety of social issues, though she shares his views on the Iraq war.
She supports same sex-marriage and a woman’s right to choose.
And she’s taken on conservative commentator Ann Coulter. “I find her offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing all at the same time,” McCain wrote on The Daily Beast.
McCain has urged Republicans to follow the Democratic lead and become Internet savvy and Twitter effective.
She’s also profiled young Republicans such as 27-year-old Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock, a “TMZ hottie” who could represent the future of the party.
In addition, she has defended herself after conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham made comments about her weight.
“I am a size 8 and fluctuated up to a size 10 during the campaign,” McCain wrote. “It’s ridiculous even to have this conversation because I am not overweight in the least and have a natural body weight. But even if I were overweight, it would be ridiculous.”
In negotiating a book contract, McCain was represented by her father’s literary agent, Philippa “Flip” Brophy, the president of Sterling Lord Literistic.
This will be Meghan McCain’s second book, following My Dad, John McCain, a children’s book published last year by Simon & Schuster.
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#1. myra 04.14.2009
EVERLASTING
Selling Planet Earth in Exchange for a Utopia? What’s the Catch?
Humans sold planet Earth for peace, but little did they know peace would come at such a high cost.
A long time ago, Humanity sold planet Earth to a group called the Evers in order to gain peace and a virtual utopia for themselves and for future generations. However, the cost of this paradise turns out to be too much for some to deal with and the humans soon find themselves ruled cruelly by the very beings who offered them salvation and at one point given them so much hope.
Humans that were originally treated with high regards, made to feels special, are now being treated as animals, some humiliated and shipped away to some unknown fate…each being told what they could or could not do, under the guise of it being in humanities best interest.
With a feeling of dread, a small group declares war on the more advanced Evers in hopes of returning things to the way they should be…to the way they had been. John and his make-shift crew of humans and hybrids (half human/half Ever) must not only find a way to break free of the mistakes of the past and find out the disturbing secrets that the Evers have hidden away, but they must also deal with their own personal issues and learn to live, grow, and deal with each others’ emotional issues of love, regret and fear.
Will man give up youth and perfect health to live in the past? And will John take the chance of restoring Earth to its former state even though there’s a good chance his life-threatening disease can return?
Publisher’s Web site: www.eloquentbooks.com/Everlasting.html
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