Emmy and Golden Globe winner Jane Lynch is at work on a memoir, Happy Accidents, which will be released in September 2011, according to The New York Times. The Glee star's book will recount her rise through improv comedy theaters to character roles in hit films such as Best in Show and Role Models as well as her current success as the track suit-sporting cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester. Lynch will also discuss her struggle with alcoholism and homosexuality...and even how she relates to her Glee character.
"Sue Sylvester didn’t come out of a vacuum," Lynch told the Times. "She’s someone that lives very deeply in me. I kind of liked that shaming, vengeful energy during different periods of my life. I was in therapy and I was complaining about somebody not following the rules, and my therapist basically started laughing at me and said, 'You must write a monologue about this, because it’s hilarious stuff.'" Lynch added, however, that the tone of her book will not be in Sue's signature mocking voice. "[Glee co-creator Ian Brennan] is the mastermind," she said of her TV character. “I’m simply his Frankenstein."
Glee will return with new episodes on February 6 with a special post-Super Bowl episode that finds Sue up to her old antics. "[Sue] is bored with her [cheerleading] routine, even though she has people dancing with fire and BMX bikes circling the auditorium," Lynch divulged about her character's storyline. "She decides she wants to top herself by shooting Brittany [Heather Morris] through a human cannon." Talk about returning with a bang!