Talk:V. C. Andrews

message: Did she exist?  An interesting website challenges whether there really was a Virginia Cleo Andrews. For some odd reason, the site is blacklisted by wikipedia.  http://www.   ishipress.com/andrews.htm  AaronCBurke 22:12, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  '''Was there really a V.C. Andrews?''' 

message: I am a little concerned at the multiplication of information between pages concerning the works of Virginia Andrews. Quite rightly there is this main page - Virginia C. Andrews - for information about the author and links to her major works. There are then individual pages for a fair few of the novels - all fine, the more the merrier. But there are also a series of pages - Dollanganger Series , Landry Series, The Casteel Series - which index and summarise each of the 'series' of her works but add no overview analysis of the series as a whole. At the moment these merely repeat the information from each of the individual novel articles. 
Suggestion 1: I suggest that under each series title on the main Virginia C. Andrews page there is a a brief introduction to each book series, then the links will take the reader through to each individual novel article. The current "series" pages should then either be deleted (my preference as some don't even meet article naming criteria) or redirected back to the main author page.
Suggestion 2: There is great potential to bring up the standard of all the novel pages. The novel pages all need to have infoboxes done to the same style, short and to the point plot summaries (at the moment some don't meet wikipedia guidelines for fiction articles and could be considered to breaching copyright see WP:FICT and WP:WAF due to the length of their plot summaries) and some analysis (although that would need to be sourced). Madmedea 22:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I support you on both suggestions.  Though at the moment I don't have much time to restructure or add much to the articles, sorry. Roaming27 01:18, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've started this work but anybody else feel free to jump in Madmedea 16:06, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Madmedea, thank you for re-locating the spoiler warning.  It looks much better now  :-)  Roaming27 22:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Restructuring the novel and series pages

message: Attic Whispers has been changed to Secrets in the Shadows.  It is confirmed by www.simonsays.com/vcandrews.
Why not add the movie adaptation section since they already produced flowers in the attic and rain and will start on ruby.
Also why not added "upcoming titles" section?  There is an upcoming title: Delia's Crossing.
Bluerocketpower 16:34, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrections and Additions? 

message: Most of the links, particularly the book titles, do not go to anything remotely related to V. C. Andrews's books. Some go to disambiguation, others just go to strange places. I don't know how to fix it. Mishka.medvezhonok (talk) 00:32, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links on page 

message: Seems to me that the synopsis of some of these books could be updated. It sounds like a brief description was written prior to the books coming out, but now that they are they haven't been expanded upon?
Anyone care to fill in the details? (I would but I haven't read the books yet so I don't know what they're about!!) Pheebalicious (talk) 12:28, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating? 

message: Someone could be forgiven for reading this and not getting that the majority of these books have nothing to do with the woman who this article is supposedly about.  This article is a real shocking example of the wikipedia phenomenon of the public press release, at least in its current state.  Does someone have the time or inclination to put in a total overhaul that addresses VC Andrews the person versus V.C. Andrews the multi-platform media creation?
Seanmercy (talk) 17:44, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real person or media creation? 

message: Shouldn't this page focus more on V.C. Andrews the person? Yes, her stories are the main reason why people are searching, but she didn't even write half of these books herself. Maybe the ones that we know were not written during her lifetime could be put on Neidermans' page, with a brief mention on V.C. Andrews page that they are published under her name. Lorilei Mackenzie (talk) 03:16, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biography Page 

message: Instead of listing the various books, I was expecting some analysis of the various themes in the books and possibly commentary on them: things like abuse, abandonment, pedophilia, and incest.  NONE of which blip on the page.  These books go quite a bit beyond “gothic” and honestly the fact that they are missing leads credence to the idea that the whole page is being manipulated by commercial forces. 2600:1700:F90:6950:91C4:428B:1C1B:AD29 (talk) 15:38, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repetitive themes 

message: Section 3.2 (and beyond) lists only works written by Neiderman;  Section 3.1 implies that each item was written by both.  To maintain parallelism, there should be a 3.1 section listed first that shows the novels written by Andrews herself.  The series description can be in that section, and in the following 3.2 section for those finished by Neiderman, just the novel titles can be listed.  Section 3.3 would then be all the novels written by Neiderman alone.  
The alternative is to have one list (remove the headings) and indicate the authorship after each novel title.  But as it stands, some of the novels listed in section 3.1 are clearly NOT by Neiderman. Or change section 3.1 to "By V.C. Andrews and by Andrew Neiderman."  
* 3.1 By V. C. Andrews and Andrew Neiderman
** 3.1.1 The Dollanganger Family Series
** 3.1.2 The Audrina Series
** 3.1.3 The Casteel Family Series
* 3.2 By Andrew Neiderman
** 3.2.1 The Cutler Family Series
 • Bobsd •  (talk) 08:23, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section 3.1 By V. C. Andrews and Andrew Neiderman is misleading.