“It was something neither of us cared about,“she toldEntertainment Weeklyin a tell-all interview in 2019.
“We needed the money.”
I thought about it, and I actually had a book [proposal] due.
Francine Pascal.Francine Pascal/Facebook
There are a lot of twins in my life.
[My agent] Amy [Berkower] is a twin.
My sister-in-law was a twin.
People are always fascinated by twins.
You’ll never be alone.
I sat down and I wrote a [character] bible and the first 12 [SVH] stories.
It went quickly because it was such a fertile idea.
Bantam Books loved it.
They ordered all 12.”
SequelsThe Sweet Valley ConfidentialandThe Sweet Lifewere published in 2011 and 2012 and followed the girls as adults.
ASweet Valley HighTV series ran from 1994 to 1997 in syndication and briefly on UPN.
There’s such similarity, no matter how different today’s teenager thinks she is.
Pascal is survived by daughters Laurie and Susan, as well as six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
