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a Facebook Live campaign.
The first printing of the
reissue is a modest 13,
copies, but Long is confident
the company will be going
back to press. The entire
Andrews franchise has been
a steady seller. Since
Andrews’s death in 1986,
Andrew Neiderman has been
ghostwriting the series and has now
written more than 80 books. The series
received a huge boost in 2014 when
the Lifetime Movie Network began
airing an adaptation of Andrews’s
books, beginning with a remake of the
1987 Flowers in the Attic movie. Five
Lifetime movies aired in summer 2019,
and the network is planning to run an
Andrews marathon on November 10.
Long has no doubt that the Lifetimemovies have played an
important part in introducing
the series to new readers. But
even before Lifetime began
showing movies, Andrews
had a solid, loyal audience—
there are now more than 146
million copies of books in the
series in circulation (print
copies plus e-book sales).
When it debuted in 1979, Flowers
in the Attic was considered racy—par-
ticularly as it appealed to teenagers,
which contributed to making it one of
the most banned books in its early
days. Today’s readership of the
Andrews franchise consists of longtime
fans who, Long said, “are addicted” to
the books, plus younger fans drawn by
the unique storytelling. To reach all
their readers, most Andrews titles areIN MEMORIAM
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first released as trade paperbacks and
e-books, followed in many cases by a
mass market paperback. The 40th
anniversary edition is a $16 trade
paperback with a foreword by Gillian
Flynn, who admits to sneak-reading
Flowers when she was 13.
Another part of the 40th anniversary
celebration is a new trilogy by
Neiderman that he calls the Attic novels,
which extends the Dollanger Family
series that began with Flowers in the
Attic. The first title, Beneath the Attic,
was released in August, and two more
are due out in 2020: Out of the Attic
(Feb.) and Shadows of Foxworth (June).
With plenty of backlist titles in print and
Lifetime likely to do more Andrews
movies, Long believes the Andrews
franchise still has many more years to
run. —Jim Milliot