Along with investments in stocks and real estate, Katie Britt made a pretty penny in 2023 from an advance on her memoir, according to the freshman U.S. senator’s financial disclosure form filed with the Senate Ethics Committee.

The Alabama Republican earned a $233,700 advance for “God Calls Us to Do Hard Things: Lessons from the Alabama Wiregrass,” which was released in November 2023, the disclosure document showed.

Britt’s book earnings in 2023 made her one of eight senators who received at least six figures from a book deal last year, according to Business Insider.

In “God Calls Us to Do Hard Things,” Britt detailed her rise from her childhood in Enterprise to the halls of the Senate.

“With grit and grace, Katie Britt has tackled a lot that life’s thrown at her,” reads Hatchette Book Group’s description of Britt’s memoir on the book’s website. “From working in her parent’s hardware store, to finding her path at the University of Alabama and marrying the captain of the football team, to an extremely close call with a tornado that destroyed her house while she held her baby in her arms, to her upstart campaign for the United States Senate, Britt has overcome setbacks, defied expectations and shocked the political establishment.”

After her 2022 election, Britt, then 40, became the first woman elected to the upper chamber from Alabama and the youngest Republican woman in the Senate.

In 2024, Britt was thrust into the national spotlight when she was chosen to give the Republican response to President Biden’s State of the Union address.

Britt’s rebuttal, given from the kitchen of her Montgomery home, was widely criticized over her dramatic delivery and was even mocked by “Saturday Night Live,” where actress Scarlett Johansson portrayed Alabama’s junior senator.

Britt also addressed the Republican National Convention last month in Milwaukee, where she made the case for Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

“The American people won’t have the wool pulled over our eyes. We see how [President Joe] Biden and [Vice President Kamala] Harris keep making things worse. And we know the current president is not capable of turning things around,” Britt said.

“His weakness is costing us our opportunity, our prosperity, our security, our safety, each diminished, all in decline. Just like the man in the Oval Office.”