![]() Her story, I Slept with My Uncle on My Wedding Night, certainly sounds like it paved the way for her subsequent best sellers.Įventually Flowers in the Attic ended up in the hands of Ann Patty, a young editor at Simon and Schuster’s Pocket Books division. ![]() According to her 1979 pitch letter for Flowers in the Attic, sent to literary agent Anita Diamant, she said she’d sold three gothic romances under a pseudonym, and had also written confession stories for pulp confession magazines. At around age 50, she completed her first novel, Gods of Green Mountain, a science fiction fantasy, and wrote nine novels and twenty short stories between 19. Not satisfied creatively with her work, she took to writing in secret. She excelled in school, and after a four-year correspondence course in art, had a successful career as a commercial artist, fashion illustrator, and portrait painter. She spent most of her life in a wheelchair or using crutches, but never let it slow her down. Why was I watching this dreck? Which led to an even bigger question, why did I, along with millions of others, love it so much in the first place?īorn Cleo Virginia Andrews in Portsmouth, Virginia, Andrews suffered a fall that led to her being disabled from the age of 15. Finding out during the commercial break trivia that he’d directed Fallen Hearts (one of the Heaven series), it brought me to another question. ![]() ![]() ![]() Andrews books on Lifetime last weekend, I wondered if, as an actor, Jason Priestly ever choked on the dreck coming out of his mouth. As I was watching a marathon of movies adapted from V.C. ![]()
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