WASHINGTON, US - Former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's memoirs will be released November 17 under the title "Going Rogue: An American Life," her publisher said Tuesday.

Publishing house HarperCollins said that the ex-Alaska governor finished her book weeks earlier than anticipated, allowing it to get into bookstores ahead of the Christmas holiday shopping season.

The book originally was scheduled for a spring 2010 publication date, HarperCollins said in a statement.

"Going Rogue," a pejorative term, referred to allegations that while a running mate to Republican presidential candidate John McCain, Palin was also a loose cannon surreptitiously plotting her own political ascent, including a possible 2012 White House run.

McCain and Palin lost the 2008 presidential race to Barack Obama.

Last week Palin made a paid speaking appearance in Hong Kong, but mostly has been out of the spotlight while working on her book.

NBC reported that Palin worked full-time for nearly four months to finish the book, moving her family San Diego, California for the month of August so she could work on the project with her collaborator Lynn Vincent.

Vincent is on leave as a features editor at WORLD Magazine, a periodical geared toward "born again" Christians.

HarperCollins said it has ordered an initial print run of 1.5 million books, the same amount as for late Senator Edward Kennedy's just-released memoirs. --AFP