This corner of the universe is not amused

“We were surprised by the reaction,” said Dan Weiss, the publisher at large at St. Martin’s, part of Macmillan. “It speaks to the fact that initially there was a real core group of fanatic fans, who are always the preservationists. They don’t want things to change.”

Ms. Pascal is not unsympathetic. “Sweet Valley was their adolescence and I’ve done some very radical things,” she said. “But you are different from that inchoate person of 16, and you have to allow that change to those characters.”

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“You remember how innocent and chaste they were,” said Ms. Teeman, who read the books when she was younger. “But when you make it an adult novel, naturally some of that innocence has to go away. This is a novel for adults, and we expect these characters to grow up and be adults.”

Ms. Pascal said she was already considering writing another book, now that “Sweet Valley Confidential” had received some positive reviews and achieved best-seller status. A film based on the original series is in the works.

“I knew that this one would wake up those readers, the old fans,” she said. “But that’s the whole point of it.”

Courtesy of The NY Times and the delightful livfreeverse at SV Unlimited.

  Uh, no. ( spoilers ho! )

Making more of these books had better involve fixing what you screwed up and dropping a house on Caroline. Also, possibly, maybe you should go back and try and find some sort of warmth for the characters, because as it stands, if fictional characters could sue? SVC would give them a solid case against FP. Especially you, AJ. Take notice, Francine. That is AJ. He's the redhead, not the blonde, in the icon.

I suppose I should rejoice that there's obviously a section of the fanbase not content to just accept SVC as it stands. I might not necessarily run into them, but at least they exist.

Another book. Good grief.