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About Me

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I'm a California native who grew up in both Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area. I'm a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, where I majored in theater and minored in everything that Berkeley has a reputation for.After college I moved to Los Angeles, where I have made an interesting living doing novel adaptations and selling original suspense and horror scripts to various Hollywood studios. I've worked for producers such as Michael Bay, Neal Moritz, David Heyman and Laura Ziskin, and have had one film made so far: an adaptation of German novelist Sabine Deitmer's psychological thriller, COLD KISSES.Last year I wrote my first novel, THE HARROWING, a ghost story that was nominated for both an Anthony award (mystery) and a Bram Stoker award (horror) for Best First Novel The story is based on real incidents from my high school and college years and grew out of my fascination with the correlation between mental/emotional illness and paranormal events -- something Ive been aware of since I was a child and which was confirmed for me in my years teaching emotionally disturbed and incarcerated teenagers in the Los Angeles court system.My second supernatural thriller, THE PRICE, set in a spooky Boston hospital, will be published by St. Martin's in February 2008, and I am contracted with St. Martin's for my next two supernatural thrillers..I practice my Berkeley political activism in union and creative rights issues in the Writers Guild of America, west; I recently finished a term on the WGAw Board of Directors. I'm also the founder of WriterAction.com, a large and unruly cyber-community of over 2000 professional screenwriters - and yes, we are all currently on strike for our fair share of internet profits from our creative work. Next to writing I love dance more than breathing: jazz, ballet, salsa, Lindy, swing - I do it all, every chance I get. Official website: http://alexandrasokoloff.com/

My Interests

Writing, screenwriting, film, books, novels, movies, horror, thrillers, mysteries, dance, psychology, surrealism, intrigue, adventures.

Television:

Deadwood, The Wire, Rome, The Brotherhood, Masterpiece Theater. Fawlty Towers

My Blog

THE PRICE - in bookstores February 19!

Yes, finally, THE PRICE will be in fine bookstores everywhere on February 19 or 20, depending on... I'm not sure exactly what.Don't we love this cover? It is so EXACTLY right for the book it's - well...
Posted by Alexandra Sokoloff on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:50:00 PST

New Year Round Up

Happy New Year!Well, okay, I'm a little late. So yes, one resolution is to keep up this blog better than I have been, or at least post links to the blogs I do at Murderati, Storytellers Unplugged, and...
Posted by Alexandra Sokoloff on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:33:00 PST

Why We Strike

By now all of the country and half of the world knows that the U.S. screen and television writers are on strike. Because of my work with the WGA, I've been living with strike plans and strike talk f...
Posted by Alexandra Sokoloff on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:48:00 PST

Happy Halloween... tour

Okay, call me slow, but it only just recently occurred to me that as a author of the supernatural I will never again be able to spend another Halloween at home. I was wondering why I was suddenly get...
Posted by Alexandra Sokoloff on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:54:00 PST

Live dark women on The Lost and The Damned, tonight!

Tonight at 9 pm Eastern, October 15, dark suspense novelists Sarah Pinborough, Deborah Le Blanc, Sarah Langan and Alexandra Sokoloff will be chatting with moderator Monica Smith on The Lost and The Da...
Posted by Alexandra Sokoloff on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:17:00 PST

Trinoc Con in Raleigh this weekend

I'll be doing a frightening number of panels and stuff at the Trinoc Speculative Fiction Con in Raleigh this weekend:August 3 5, Raleigh, North CarolinaTrinoc-Con http://www.trinoc-con.org/index.ht...
Posted by Alexandra Sokoloff on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:53:00 PST

Anthony nominations, and yes, THE HARROWING

Well, I have to say I didn't see this one coming. I am running into furniture and it took me three tries to parallel park this morning. Me. A Los Angeles native.So honored to be in this awesome g...
Posted by Alexandra Sokoloff on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:02:00 PST

Report on Book Expo America

I posted this report on Book Expo America (in NYC last weekend) on Murderati.com but wanted to pass it on here as well.I've been to a LOT of conferences, workshops, and conventions this year and it's ...
Posted by Alexandra Sokoloff on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:26:00 PST

Romantic Times and Los Angeles Festival of Books

I'll be running all over the country again in the next two weeks:APRIL 25 - APRIL 28: Houston, TXRomantic Times Booklovers Convention- THURSDAY, April 26:...9 - 10:30 am Bookseller Event...11 am-12pm ...
Posted by Alexandra Sokoloff on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:43:00 PST

World Horror Con

I'm heading off to Toronto this week for the World Horror Convention. I'll be doing:- A signing with the fabulous Sarah Langan, author of the truly terrific debut THE KEEPER, also a nominee for a Stok...
Posted by Alexandra Sokoloff on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:10:00 PST