Are YOU ready to take a trip down memory lane with Sweet Vally Confidential: 10 Years Later? We’ve been chomping at the bit to find out what Liz and Jess (and hottie, Porche driving Bruce Patman) have been up to all these years! Ah, the nostalgia! It’s intoxicating!
Well, the waiting is over because Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later
But seriously, what have those beyotches been up to???!!!
In lieu of that information, we have SVH creator and author Francine Pascal sharing her 5 Do’s and a Do-over with us today. And GUESS WHAT? We have TWO copies to give away-just leave a comment and you’ll be entered to win. That’s as easy as Jessica used to be back in the day…(Sorry couldn’t resist-we were always Team Liz!) We’ll choose the winners on Friday night after 6pm PST.
CHICK LIT IS NOT DEAD PRESENTS: FRANCINE PASCAL’S 5 DO’S AND A DO-OVER
5 DO’S
1. Best thing I ever did was to have three children. And lucky for me, they were girls. Nothing like having the fun of your own Sex and the City friends. People who love you, understand you, laugh with you and forgive your mistakes. Of course, you have to wait a bit until they outgrow the awfulness of those teenage years. But it’s worth the wait.
2. Second best thing: Pick up and leave the country after my husband died. I went to France where I knew no one and not a word beyond Merci. It saved my life and gave me my favorite book, If Wishes Were Horses (aka La Villa).
3. Third best thing: Understanding that ideas were my forte. The first good idea was My Mother Was Never a Kid about a girl who can’t get along with her mother and through some time warp goes back to her mother’s childhood and becomes her mother’s best friend. This was 1974 before all those other movies and books using that same idea. And then I came up with Fearless about a girl born without the fear gene. I made that up and it turned out to be sort of true. And of course, Sweet Valley High.
4. The fourth important DO is not to stop writing. As long as I have ideas and a computer, I will continue.
5. But the real winner was to not go into acting. I know now that I would have been a terrible actor. I found that out when I recorded the epilogue for Sweet Valley Confidential-Ten Years Later. I was reading my own words and I was awful, totally without talent.
DO-OVER
I wish I wrote for Saturday Night Live.
Thanks Francine! xoxo, L&L
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Can’t wait to read the book :)
Love, love, love Sweet Valley High books!! I remember begging my dad to take me to the book store every time a new one came out. Great memories!
Thanks for the chance. I can’t wait to read it!
ive soo excited about this book coming out! cant wait to read it!!
would love to win this! i bought the sweet valley high books for my daughter who is all grown up and 24 now!
Sweet Valley High was one of my favorite series of books as a kid!! I would love to win a copy!!!!!!
I LOVED these books when I was younger and I can’t wait to see what’s happening with them now.
OMG!!! Sweet Valley High!!! I miss those times and would love to catch up with old friends (and a few enemies….).
Can’t wait to read this! I always loved the Sweet Valley High books! :)
Oh how fun! A catch up book sounds like so much fun!!
I’ve been waiting for this one since I heard about it a year ago.
I LOVE the SVH series!!!!
I grew up right along with the kids at Sweet Valley High and have been patiently waiting for this book! So excited would love to win a copy!!!!!!
This is so exciting, the return of Sweet Valley! It’s funny, I was just thinking the other day that it would be great if Sweet Valley returned and then I saw the commercial last night and almost fell out of my chair! Thank you Ms. Pascal for all the wonderful memories I had with this series…I truly felt like I grew up with Elizabeth and Jessica….you brought to so many young women an opportunity to go somewhere new and exciting through reading! I’m so excited for Sweet Valley Confidential! Thanks so much for sharing your talent of writing with all of us :-)
I love SVH!! I want a copy of the book!
I loved Sweet Valley Twins; they were my secret best friends. Ah, Nostalgia!
Have been waiting for this book for so long!
Would love to read this book ~ sounds great!
I would love to have a copy of this book! I have an 80s website and this is clearly right up my alley! *Fingers crossed*
I’ve been anxious to get my hands on this! :) LOVED SVH growing up!
I just saw the teen series at the library and I am nostalgic of my childhood.
Looking forward to read up on the adventures of Jessica & Elizabeth Wakefield, as adults!
Can’t wait to read this book! Thank you for the opporunity and a great interview!
I have been waiting for this book. I was such a huge fan of this series and I am actually reading it now to refresh my memory of the series. I would LOVE to get this book.
Brings me WAY back – count me in!
i have been trying to pre-order the book ever since i heard about its release. but unfortunately i haven’t been successful. because im from a small country im having difficulties getting the book. i have always loved the sweet valley series. i would really really love to read this new sweet valley book! thank you
Ohmigod I am SO excited for this.
Oh I’m so excited!! Can I just say, I was so obsessed with Sweet Valley High that I named my imaginary friend Elizabeth and my sisters and I would draw out on our driveway with chalk depicting scenes from the books and pretending to be Jess and Liz!? (so, I was reading the books way before I probably should have as an eager 4th grader with an overactive imagination, but I think that was the fun of it!)
I loved the Sweet Valley High books when I was younger!! I tried to collect them all, never was able to accomplish that, LOL, but I made a good attempt at it. Can hardly wait to read Sweet Valley Confidential! It will be good to check in with the Wakefields after all this time.
My mom read this series and she bought be alot of the books. I really liked them and would love to win this book (and share with my mom)
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I used to go through these books like candy when I was 12. I even brought one to my junior high prom. Nobody knew how to craft engrossing 200-page plots like Francine Pascal. I’ve been excited about Sweet Valley Confidential since I heard about it in 2008, and can’t wait to read it!!!
I bought the Sweet Valley Twins and Sweet Valley High books for my daughters when they were younger! They always wanted them when we went to the bookstore. I’d love to surprise them with Sweet Valley Confidential!!!
I grew up on SVH. What an exciting opportunity to feel like we are visiting old friends to catch up on our lives. I always wonder what “happened” to some of the most beloved book characters I fell for over the years. And this is such a great chance!
I can NOT wait to read it–these were my childhood.
I have been excited to read this one for so long! Jessica and Liz taught me SO much about being a teenager back in the day…..
Great contest-thanks for the chance!
I was a huge fan of the SVH series; can’t wait to read this!
Oh, this is SO EXCITING! I was a huuuuuuge fan of the Sweet Valley High books growing up. My childhood best friend and I reconnected on facebook in the past few years and it’s been one of our bonding moments/topics. :) I’ve read several posts on various sites I check out daily… there’s lots of buzz about the book!
I was a total Liz, too. Can’t wait to read this!
I loved all the series. I was more Team Jessica than Liz cause Lila and Jess got in more trouble.
Can’t wait to read the book.
I’m a little too old to have read Sweet Valley High books as a teen, so this will be all new to me.
You all are the best for having this author on your blog. I can’t wait to read more from my favorite author in my childhood. :)
I loved that series, I’m interested to see where it went!
YAHOO! omg i am so fricken excited about this its a little silly…I feel 13 again! I heard rumors about a tv show or movie based on this series too? I can only hope :-}
Sweet!!! I can’t wait to read this book!
SVH! I used to read the series! Can’t wait to read this book!
I am SO excited! What fantastic memories this whole series has for me! I am so excited to read this new book. :) I hope many more are to come!!! :)
Love Love Love the SVH books and cannot wait to read this one! Would save my money to buy the new one as soon as I bought one!
a fabulous giveaway….please count me in….thanks :)
Can’t wait to get the book!!!!
Best giveaway EVER!! I hope I win!!
Francine Pascal’s characters Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield have always been an inspiration. That’s why I love Ms. Pascal. She’s very imaginative and I love the way she writes. For me, she is the best.
This just made my day! I totally LOVED SVH and read all of the books faster than my poor mother was able to buy them for me. I would so love to win a copy of the new book!
These were some of my favorite books when I was growing up. Count me in!
Oh the memories of these books! Can’t wait to see what’s new with the girls.
omg. i read these all thru high school. and the sweet valley twins series all thru middle school. i’m going to have to find this locally.
SVH was my favorite books when I was a kid!!!!! Can’t wait!!!
Can’t wait to read this!
Just as easy as the twin, I’m entering a comment to win. **crosses fingers**
Thanks for this giveaway!
I can’t wait to see what Elizabeth, Jess, Bruce Patton, Lila and Enid are up to!
p.s. this makes me remember that I wish I had eyes the color of the Pacific Ocean.
Awesome! I loved her note about daughters…”when they outgrow that awfulness…” SO true! (Mine is 21 now…) Look forward to reading this…looks great! :)
I’ve loved SVH and SVT since I was a little girl and am really looking forward to reading about what has become of my favorite fictional twins.
Ooh, I’d love to win this! I would obsess over the new SVH book releases, and couldn’t wait to get them at the library!
Wow! This is SO cool! I read these books when I was a teenager! I would LOVE to win this book! Thanks for the giveaway.
nancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net
I can not wait to read this book! I was such a huge fan of the series and can’t wait to see what the twins are up to now!
love the info, makes a change from normal interviews.x
I’m a huge Sweet Valley High fan and would LOVE to win a copy of the book!!!
OMG the book sounds like it will keep me up all night. hope to win :)
OMG, I have been dying to read this. In fact, I have been counting down for MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW!!! I’m so excited about this book!!! Just thinking about SVH reminds me of being young again. I love this!!!!!!!
Sweet Valley was such a monumental part of my childhood. I was very sick for a long time and reading about that world brought me out of a dark and dreary hospital environment to a bright and cheerful world, where all the girls looked like Barbie (except for you Lois Waller and Robin Wilson!) and all the boys were tall dark and CUTE. In my imagination I dined at the Dairi Burger (clam specials!), learned to surf with Liz, and dated a British Lord with Jessica. While I read SVH, I forgot about the pain and concentrated on the antics of two twins I can never forget… not even now 2o odd (and healthy!) years later.
Sweet Valley, you’ve got a piece of my heart.
Congrats to curlysarah29@gmail.com, beccatess@gmail.com!!! they’ve each won a copy of SWEET VALLEY CONFIDENTIAL!!! Thanks to all who commented! xoxo, L&L