GRETCHEN WILSON at the CMA Awards, New York City, USA - 15.11.05

The REDNECK WOMAN singer insists her untitled first book will not be a memoir, but stories she has collected from women while travelling around America.

She explains, "It's not my life story but stories from my life - stories from a lot of women that I grew up around and that I felt were very pivotal in my life and kind of gave me the courage and the strength to keep going.

"It's kind of going to be a feel-good book for women."