History Creator / VCAndrews

## ''Literature/{{Dark Angel|1986'' (1986)

## ''Literature/Heaven1985''
## ''Literature/DarkAngel1986''

## ''Literature/{{Heaven|1985}}'' (1985)
## ''Literature/{{Dark Angel|1986}}'' (1986)

* ThemeNaming: The book collections have names with a noticeable theme: The Literature/DollangangerSeries has floral names ("Flowers", "Petals", "Thorns," "Seeds," "Garden") while Literature/TheCasteelSeries uses angelic themes ("Heaven", "Angel,").

* ''Literature/TheCasteelSeries''

* ''Gods of Green Mountain'' (completed in 1972; unpublished during her lifetime; released as an e-book in 2004)

## ''Literature/{{Heaven}}'' (1985)
## ''Literature/DarkAngel'' (1986)

## ''Heaven'' (1985)
## ''Dark Angel'' (1986)

Andrews has since become perhaps equally notorious for the manner in which her work has OutlivedItsCreator. The real Virginia Andrews published only seven books in her lifetime. After her death, however, a ghostwriter (Andrew Neiderman) quietly took over at her publishers' behest, and has continued to churn out novels under the Andrews pen-name for decades ever since, basically turning "V.C. Andrews" into a brand. Quite where the lines are drawn between any genuine unfinished manuscripts he may have completed, works "inspired by" her ideas but otherwise his own, and works entirely plucked from his imagination, remains officially unacknowledged. More than ''seventy'' books by him have appeared under the Andrews name, though -- over ten times more than the original author ever managed, and unabating even as the centenary of her birth approaches.

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* ''Literature/DollangangerSeries'' prequel ''Literature/GardenOfShadows'' (1987)
* ''Literature/MySweetAudrina'' sequel ''Literature/{{Whitefern}}'' (2016)
* ''Literature/TheCasteelSeries'' (1985-1990)
* ''Literature/CutlerSeries'' (1990-1993)
* ''Literature/LandrySeries'' (1994-1996)
* ''Literature/LoganSeries'' (1996-1999)
* ''Literature/{{Orphans}}'' series (1998)
* ''Literature/TheWildflowers'' series (1999)
* ''Literature/HudsonSeries'' (2000-2007)
* ''Literature/{{Celeste}}'' series (2004-2005)
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!! Tropes common in ghostwritten works:
[[folder: Ghostwriter tropes]]
* RapeAsDrama: The ghostwritten books are infamous for, particularly RapeAsBackstory, as often discovered in the prequel novels.
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A voracious reader as well as a skilled artist and designer, Andrews didn't really get serious about writing until she hit middle age. After finishing quite a few unpublished manuscripts, her debut novel ''Literature/FlowersInTheAttic'' came out in 1979, and quickly gained notoriety for a subplot involving BrotherSisterIncest, but that infamy translated into huge sales. In its wake, Andrews wrote several sequels and produced other novels. Plagued with health problems throughout her life, Andrews died of breast cancer in 1986. She never married, nor had children.

A voracious reader as well as a skilled artist and designer, Andrews didn't really get serious about writing until she hit middle age. After finishing quite a few unpublished manuscripts, her debut novel ''Literature/FlowersInTheAttic'' came out in 1979, and quickly gained infamy for its portrayal of BrotherSisterIncest. In the wake of its huge success, Andrews wrote several sequels and produced other novels. Plagued with health problems throughout her life, Andrews died of breast cancer in 1986. She never married, nor had children.

A voracious reader as well as a skilled artist and designer, Andrews didn't really get serious about writing until she hit middle age. After finishing quite a few unpublished manuscripts, her debut novel ''Literature/FlowersInTheAttic'' came out in 1979, and quickly gained infamy for its portrayal of BrotherSisterIncest. In the wake of its huge success, Andrews wrote several sequels and produced other novels. Plagued with health problems throughout her life, Andrews died of breast cancer in 1986. She never married.

Andrews has since become perhaps equally notorious for the manner in which her work has OutlivedItsCreator. The real Virginia Andrews published only seven books in her lifetime. After her death, however, a ghostwriter (Andrew Neiderman) quietly took over at her publishers' behest, and has continued to churn out novels under the Andrews pen-name for decades ever since. Quite where the lines are drawn between any genuine unfinished manuscripts he may have completed, works "inspired by" her ideas but otherwise his own, and works entirely plucked from his imagination, remains officially unacknowledged. More than ''seventy'' books by him have appeared under the brand, though -- over ten times more than the original author ever managed, and unabating even as the centenary of her birth approaches.

Cleo Virginia Andrews, better known as V.C. Andrews (June 6, 1923 – December 19, 1986), was an American author best known for ''Literature/FlowersInTheAttic,'' a novel infamous for its portrayal of BrotherSisterIncest. She wrote several sequels and produced other novels up until her death in 1986.

She has since become perhaps equally notorious for the manner in which her work has OutlivedItsCreator. The real Virginia Andrews published only seven books in her lifetime. After her death, however, a ghostwriter (Andrew Neiderman) quietly took over at her publishers' behest, and has continued to churn out novels under the Andrews pen-name for decades ever since. Quite where the lines are drawn between any genuine unfinished manuscripts he may have completed, works "inspired by" her ideas but otherwise his own, and works entirely plucked from his imagination, remains officially unacknowledged. More than ''seventy'' books by him have appeared under the brand, though -- over ten times more than the original author ever managed, and unabating even as the centenary of her birth approaches.

* GenreBusting: Andrews' work is hard to classify because it skirts the edges of a bunch of genres but doesn't fit into them. In [[https://culture.org/dark-family-2/ this essay]], writer Sara Gran argues that Andrews was a genre unto herself.

* ReclusiveArtist: She shunned the spotlight, and there's a lot that's still not certain about her life. There are only a handful of surviving photos of her as an adult. She only gave a small number of interviews, and refused to divulge her age, with the result that news outlets guessed that she was in her 40s or 50s when she died, rather than the actual 63. Some of this was due to her physical condition: she spent most of her adult life in a wheelchair, due to a combination of a painful bone spur and chronic rheumatoid arthritis.