Reality star Snooki books a romance deal

Snooki and books in the same sentence? Certainly, nothing you've seen on "Jersey Shore" could lead you to that conclusion.

But reality television star Nicole Polizzi is now looking to find a new role for herself as best-selling romance author, Reuters reports.

The 22-year-old, better known by her nickname "Snooki," will publish a novel, aptly titled "A Shore Thing," in January 2011, Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, said on Wednesday.

The book will tell the tale of a "girl looking for love on the boardwalk (one full of big hair, dark tans, and fights galore)," Gallery said in a news release.

Polizzi has been in the media spotlight since MTV's "Jersey Shore" -- about the lives and leisure of young Italian-Americans in New Jersey -- became a US pop culture sensation in the past year.

In August, Polizzi was sentenced to community service after she was arrested in Seaside Heights, New Jersey while filming for the popular MTV series.

Celebrity website TMZ.com said she had been partying with a beer bong along the town's boardwalk and fallen off her bicycle.

The second season premiere of "Jersey Shore", which is set in Miami, scored 5.3 million viewers, growing to 6.5 million in early September, delivering MTV's highest rated series telecast in more than eight years, MTV said.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2010-09-29 20:45:59 GMT (Reuters)