WASILLA -- Sarah Palin says the best-selling author who moved into the house next door to her family while writing a book about her needs to get a life.

Palin told "Fox News Sunday" that she and her family now avoid their front yard and other areas of their lakeside home in Wasilla because of author Joe McGinniss.

McGinniss moved to Wasilla last spring while working on a book about Palin, the former governor and vice presidential candidate. McGinniss has said that he rented the house because the price was right, not to spy on the Palins.