Source: Publisher's Weekly, 16 November 1998, PublishersWeekly.com

V.C. ANDREWS LIVES ON
Happily for her many fans, at her death in December 1986, V.C. Andrews left behind several unfinished manuscripts. Her family and publisher Pocket Books have been able to keep her name very much alive on the bestseller charts by getting a noted horror/suspense writer to anonymously complete her books and, according to the front of each book, "to create additional novels inspired by her storytelling genius." The latest creation, Runaways (The Orphans), has 1.4 million copies in print and the publisher did an additional 40,000 rush reprint. There are 75 million copies of V.C. Andrews's books in print worldwide, and that includes books published in 22 languages in 90 countries; sales for each title average more than four million copies worldwide.

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