Shannon's Sweet Valley High Blog

The official Sweet Valley Confidential website launched this morning! If you sign up to be a Super Fan, a sneak peak of the first chapter will be emailed to you. I just finished reading it. It’s…interesting. It appears we’re going to catch up with the twins while they’re in the midst of a massive Twin Fight. Also, Bruce Patman is Elizabeth’s best friend. What’s up with that?

Super Fans will also receive alerts about giveaways, polls and other fun things, and I should be able to do some SVC giveaways as we get closer to the release date, March 29, 2011. This is really exciting stuff!

You can find the Sweet Valley Confidential Twitter page here and the Facebook page here.

I just received an official press release from St. Martin’s Press, and they have confirmed what I heard from JJ. Sweet Valley Confidential is still a go! We still have a tentative publication date of February 2011, and Francine Pascal assures us we will be “shocked” at the way our friends have turned out.

According to the release, “the new book takes place twelve years after the high school series and follows the sisters into adulthood where the real world intrudes after a perfect childhood.”

This should be interesting!

What do you guys think she means by the real world intruding? I think it means Jessica gets a pimple and Liz gets rejected when she tries to get a job at the Sweet Valley News.

Francine Pascal mentioned quite a while ago that she was working on a new book called Sweet Valley Confidential. I can’t even remember where or when I first heard about it, but it seems like it’s been in the works for a really long time. I was starting to think it was just a rumor, but then I was contacted by Sarah Jae Jones, who goes by JJ and is an editorial assistant at St. Martin’s Press.

For those who don’t know, Sweet Valley Confidential is supposed to take place when the twins and their friends are in their mid-twenties. JJ says Francine is indeed hard at work on the book and there is a tentative publication date of February 2011. I asked her what the target audience is going to be, because let’s face it: the old books are pretty bad and I wouldn’t be reading them if not for the nostalgia factor. JJ thinks Sweet Valley Confidential will be appealing to twenty-somethings and will actually be a decent standalone novel.

I gotta say, I’m kind of excited about this. For better or worse, I grew up with the damned Wakefield twins and I’ve always wondered how they turned out. Is Jessica a porn star? Is Elizabeth a nun? JJ has promised to keep me updated on what’s happening with the book, and I will in turn keep you all updated.