Meet the woman who is going to write the Sarah Palin memoirs. Does this signal the end of another promising career?

After last week’s announcement that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would pen a memoir to set the record straight about her personal and political life, HarperCollins revealed Thursday that WORLD Magazine Features Editor Lynn Vincent has been signed on as Palin’s collaborator.

The book, not yet titled, will be co-published by HarperCollins imprint Harper and HarperCollins-owned Zondervan and is scheduled for release in the spring of 2010.

During her 10 years as a senior writer and features editor for WORLD, Vincent has covered politics, culture, and hot-button social issues such as abortion for the biweekly news magazine. She has also specialized in narrative journalism.

“Lynn has been WORLD’s best writer of action stories ranging from shots fired in a Texas church to raging fires on California hillsides,” said WORLD Editor in Chief Marvin Olasky. “She combines guts and grace, as does Sarah Palin, so the book should be outstanding.” (I just threw up in my mouth a little.)

“Having worked for more than a decade with Lynn Vincent in what is often a man’s world, I know she brings a rare kind of strong-mindedness and tender-heartedness to every assignment,” said WORLD Editor Mindy Belz. “Lynn is a tenacious reporter and an exacting writer—and I'm not sure when she sleeps.”

Only time will tell if Ms. Vincent's career will slam up against that Palin iceberg and sink forever into the icy depths of obscurity, but I can say with some certainty that this story is NOT going to have a happy ending.

Actually if things work out the way I am hoping Lynn Vincent will have to make a choice of either writing a book featuring a glowing pile of horseshit, or to use her reporter skills to write an expose that will reveal the truths about Sarah Palin that are just now beginning to surface.

One of my jobs is ending today for an extended break and I should have much more time to dedicate to following up on my old leads and pursuing some of the new ones I have received in recent days. The wall I spoke about earlier turned out to be more of a speed bump and I am now able to move forward again.

I am not going to predict when this story will break because I have recently learned that despite agreements and promises there are too many factors that I simply have no control over. However progress is once again being made.

For those of you who have cautioned me to be careful and go slowly to make sure I have the true facts, I thank you as that is exactly what I am trying to do. And for others who are understandably impatient I apologize, but please realize that you are not alone.

Even some of my most trusted friends have reached out to confirm that I was not being taken for a ride or that I was simply full of shit. The verdict so far is that I am still in good standing and I have their blessing. So like I said, you are definitely not alone in your frustration.