Snooki Pens a Beach Book

NEW YORK (CBS/AP) You could call it the ultimate beach book.

Snooki of "Jersey Shore" fame is working on - get this - a book.

Gallery Books announced Wednesday that Nicole Polizzi, known as "Snooki" to fans of the MTV reality show now in its second season, has a novel called "Shore Thing" scheduled to come out in January.

The publisher said the novel will tell of love on the boardwalk, complete with "big hair, dark tans, and fights galore."

Snooki said in a statement that she has been working on the book for some time. "This book will have you falling in love at the shore," she said.

Adds Jennifer Bergstrom of Gallery Books: "Who better than Snooki to write a fun, sexy novel about a single girl looking for love on the Jersey Shore."

In case you were wondering, Snooks is not writing alone. Gallery, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, said she has a collaborator