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Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California who provoked a media firestorm with her answer to a question during the Miss USA pageant about gay marriage, has signed a publishing contract.

Her book, called 'Still Standing', will be published by Regnery Publishing, and released in November 2009, according to Big Hollywood, a conservative blog by and about right-leaning Hollywood types.

The hubbub erupted during the April pageant, when openly gay blogging star Perez Hilton, who'd been hired as a judge for the show, asked for her opinion on gay marriage.

When 22-year-old Prejean responded that she believes marriage should be between a man and a woman, a furor ensued. It ended with Prejean getting stripped of her California crown by Miss USA owner Donald Trump because she was missing too many pageant-sponsored events and had sent pageant officials emails expressing her contempt for them. Trump stressed that his decision had nothing to do with her views.

For better or worse, the uproar brought some attention to the pageant, whose ratings in recent years had been flagging.

It brought Prejean attacks from some gay activists and adoration from many conservatives.

Big Hollywood reports that now, Prejean will "tell her side of the story," which will include her musings on "the bias against conservatives
-- particularly conservative women -- who stand up for their beliefs."