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FILTER RESULTS ►Choose Your Own Style Adventure with the Revlon + ELLE Personal Style Experience
Were you a fan of Choose Your Own Adventure books as a child? Last winter, I went on a scavenger hunt in my parents’ basement and dug up my beloved Sweet Valley High books and some of my fave CYOA books. One was an off brand version about an aspiring model who, at one point, [...]
Beauty Test Drive: Sephora’s Express Self-Tanning Kit For Face And Body (Video!)
You know who I blame for my never-ending pursuit of the perfect tan? Francine Pascal. The author behind the widely popular ’80s teen/tween book series, Sweet Valley High, instilled me with the belief that to be beautiful meant I needed to be bronzed. After all, Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield, the most beautiful 16-year-old twins on [...]
Eugene (E.C.) Myers Talks YA, Romantic Proposals, and His Favorite Moment in Sweet Valley High
by CarrieS
I was thrilled to get to interview E.C. (Eugene) Myers at the Nebula Awards Weekend. His book, Fair Coin, won the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Eugene filled me in about his work, the challenge...Show More Summary
Boy, YA novel covers from the late '80s and '90s are a lot more subtext-y than expected.
Boy, YA novel covers from the late '80s and '90s are a lot more subtext-y than expected. (Although I remember thinking: Enid Rollins from Sweet Valley High maybe?) Read more...
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Oh my god, you guys. Remember the Sweet Valley High where Elizabeth comes out of a coma and thinks she’s Jessica (until she cracks her head on the coffee table)? Apparently, Ciara recently came out of a coma and currently thinks she is Robyn. No one make any sudden moves — I want to see Read More...
Shorties (Ghostwriting Sweet Valley High Books, Andrew W.K.'s Adoration of the Music of Robert Pollard, and more)
Talk of the Nation interviews author Amy Boesky about ghostwriting over 50 Sweet Valley High books. "I've been getting these wonderful letters from readers, who are women now — who are lawyers, who are doctors, who grew up reading these...
Book News: Male Authors Still Get Far More Coverage, Survey Shows
Also: Alice B. Toklas' fudge recipe; a fireproof edition of Fahrenheit 451; and a Milton scholar on ghostwriting the Sweet Valley High series.
A Serious Scholar's Secret Past as a Sweet Valley High Ghostwriter
In a lengthy, worth-your-while essay, Amy Boesky reminisces on the six years she spent ghostwriting Sweet Valley High books. Boesky was a poet and a graduate student in literature at Oxford before she attended a life-changing dinner party and was introduced to SVH creator Francine Pascal. More »
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Remember the Sweet Valley High book where Elizabeth gets in a motorcycle accident and wakes up and thinks she’s Jessica? Apparently, this happened to Patricia Arquette, except when she woke up, she thought she was Helena Bonham Carter. Read More...
What Your Favorite Book In Sixth Grade Says About You
The Outsiders: You were the first member of your peer group to discover, and later write, fanfiction. Sweet Valley High (any title): You had an older sister. Depending on how much older she was, you found the books thrillingly racy or strangely foreign. Show More Summary
‘Sweet Valley High’ to be released on e-reader Tuesday, see the covers now! — EXCLUSIVE
First the Baby-Sitters Club and now Sweet Valley High? We might just explode from a fit of teen lit nostalgia. Sweet Valley
Things I Read That I Love #38: She Hit Send
Topics include Dominique Moceanu, life insurance, Sweet Valley High, Spike Lee, bath salts, Juggalos, life insurance, hipster conservatives and abortion!
Behind the Scenes at the Sweet Valley High Series
As many Sweet Valley High series fans know, the hit YA books (and multiple spin-off series) were primarily written by ghostwriters. The Hairpin interviewed one of those writers, Marijuanamerica author Ryan Nerz.
During the interview, Nerz named several successful teen writers who had also worked on the series. Show More Summary
Party Favors: How Do The Sperms Move?
Sex questions from seventh graders. -The Stir Amazing covers (and better headlines) from the Helen Gurley Brown era. -Buzzfeed Guessing the song titles on Taylor Swift's new album. -BlackBook To ghostwrite Sweet Valley High books, you have to be super high, apparently. Show More Summary
Party Favors: How Your Sweet Valley High Gets Made
To ghostwrite Sweet Valley High books, you have to be super high, apparently. -The Hairpin Kate Bosworth is engaged. -YourTango Will My Birth Control Be Free? An Infograph. -The Frisky The worst Facebook status updates. -Divine Caroline The frustrating coverage of female athletes at the Olympics. Show More Summary
Afternoon Grind: Stunning Photos of Audrey Hepburn And The Suit Of The Week
Gwen Stefani wears makeup for her husband; Finds Motherhood tough (YourTango) How your Sweet Valley High gets made (The Hairpin) Katie Holmes really needs some grownup friends (LaineyGossip) Suit of the week: Rachel Zoe (Corporette) Why...Show More Summary
How Your Sweet Valley High Gets Made
Now that Francine Pascal's young-adult series Sweet Valley High has spawned the recent Sweet Valley Confidential and the new e-book series The Sweet Life, perhaps it's time to explore how your Sweet Valley High gets made. I interviewed...Show More Summary
Sweet Valley Twins are back in a new digital-only series
As St. Martin's prepares to reissue the first 12 books from Francine Pascal's beloved 1980s series "Sweet Valley High" this October, the publisher hopes to draw readers in with a new series of e-singles. The first one was released July 15. Each e-single is $1.99.
Texts From Sweet Valley High
Jess are you there?
yeah I’m here
Where were you?
what do you mean
Did you not get any of my texts?
no
The Sweet Sixteen people were here
for the interview about the fundraiser
hey already came?
you weren’t here so I tried to do theShow More Summary
CMT Awards Scrolldown Fug: Carrie Underwood
If there’s anything you know we like, it’s Diet Coke, Sweet Valley High, Jon Hamm/Pacey/a predictable cadre of future GFY HQ interns, and sequins. So it will come as no great shock that I was fully on board this train… … and then, presumably as I hopped between carriages in search of the bar car, Read More...
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