Ghostwriting is weird

Oh, THIS is strange. The V.C. Andrews biography mentions that details of one of her childhood homes made it into “V.C. Andrews’s Landry series.” I am fairly certain that series was entirely created by the ghostwriter, the author of this biography. That’s an interesting choice to reference his own work while eliding the fact that it’s his.

He does it again a few pages later, when he references the grandmother character originally introduced in Flowers in the Attic and “expanded upon in Garden of Shadows, the series prequel.” He even goes so far as to say “Virginia was on solid ground depicting Olivia as one so capable of evaluating investments and balancing books that her father treats her as a business partner in Garden of Shadows.” Which REALLY STRONGLY IMPLIES Andrews wrote that portrayal, but again, I’m fairly certain GoS is overwhelmingly Niederman’s work.

Is he trying to get those books on the reader’s mind without drawing attention to the fact that Andrews herself didn’t write them?