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WORD: U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer the latest politician-slash-author

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer will join an ever-growing list of public officials who have turned to authoring books but with a twist -- her debut work is a novel. Chronicle Books will release Boxer’s A Time To Run in about one month, a company executive told WORD’N’BASS.com.

The novel, co-authored by Mary-Rose Hayes, appears to borrow heavily from Boxer’s experience in the cut throat world of politics, although Boxer says that A Time To Run is "not about me, or any particular person."

An uncorrected proof of the full manuscript obtained by WORD’N’BASS.com shows it’s about a female senator grappling with professional and personal issues during her climb to the top of the American political ladder. It took her seven years to complete the manuscript, and Boxer noted that much of the writing took place on long flights from California to Washington, D.C.

A Time To Run follows protagonist Ellen Fischer, like Boxer a petite 5’-2", from college until she marries a rising political star. When her husband dies she assumes his candidacy and becomes a senator. But Ellen’s political and private lives clash when her former lover, a journalist with right wing connections, enters the picture and passes on documents that can make or break her career.

Barbara Boxer is serving her third consecutive term as a U.S. Senator from California. Other politicians with recent books include former President Bill Clinton, Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton and Senator Rick Santorum.

In addition, Senator Trent Lott has reportedly written a book called Master of the Game that is a political insider's "tell all," but it may end up getting shelved because of guess what -- politics.

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