I have to watch her. Good is sometimes a little dull. Pascal isn't one to worry about negative press, anyway. Once Confidential was over and done with, Pascal "said never, I won't do it again. Then my agent and publisher, we had dinner, and they came up with the idea of an e-serial. That was all they had to say — I was off and running. I couldn't stop myself. So I put together the stories for the six books, sat down and wrote the first one.
Then with the help of Cara Lockwood, I wrote the rest. The Sweet Life books, just out, are as packed with cliffhangers as any Sweet Valley fan could wish. Three years on from Sweet Valley Confidential, there's a sex scandal, a stalker, and the requisite amount of loving and losing among Sweet Valley's finest.
She's looking forward to the Sweet Valley High film, which is coming into focus — it's going to be a musical, she says — but isn't sure if she'll do any more Sweet Valley books, despite, typically, leaving a number of her characters on something of a metaphorical cliff edge at the end of the sixth Sweet Life book.
We're waiting to see how the print edition does in October," she says. And anyway, she points out with a laugh, nobody goes crazy when there's a cliffhanger at the end of The Good Wife or Homeland. Alison Flood. Francine Pascal, the creator of the enormously successful teen tales franchise, explains how she's gone about following her heroines into adulthood.
Mathewuse also studied under Norman Rockwell protege Peter Caras and employed Rockwell's practice of having models photographed for reference material. For teen-lit, he skipped symbolism and went for light colors.
When Random House re-issued the series in , they circulated a letter to journalists indicating certain dated references would be updated for contemporary readers.
Few pop culture touchstones escaped the board game treatment in the s and '80s. You might also land on a space that lets you give your maid the day off. Though Pascal was initially reluctant to explore more taboo topics like teen pregnancy and drug use, she eventually warmed to the idea: Book 40 in the series, On the Edge , was a cautionary tale featuring the twins' pal, Regina Morrow, who attends a party, tries cocaine for the first time, and drops dead on the spot.
Unbeknownst to her, she had a heart defect. Natural disasters are not typical teen-lit fodder, but Pascal wanted to go out with a bang: The final books in the main Sweet Valley franchise revolved around an earthquake that demolished the township. Tragically, classmate Olivia Davidson perished when a refrigerator fell on her.
It was the first installment she wrote entirely by herself, motivated in part after getting letters asking what happened to the Wakefield sisters after the conclusion of the series. Jessica : My little sister is all grown up. Elizabeth : Jess, I was born four minutes before you. Sign In. Episode guide. Play trailer Comedy Drama. Creators Josh Goldstein developed for television by Jonathan Prince developed for television by. Top credits Creators Josh Goldstein developed for television by Jonathan Prince developed for television by.
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