Alexandra Sokoloff

Happy first official day of summer! (I say this so often, but I'm saying it again. How did it get to be June?)
June 1, 2021—and I just finished another, nearly final! draft of Book 1 of my new Golden Gate series.
Always a bit of a miracle, finishing a book. And this one is pretty epic. I should definitely be out celebrating. But it's a miracle I've come to expect, because I've made it happen often enough that there's no reason NOT to believe I'll do it again...

Ten easy steps for screenwriters to turn that unproduced script into a novel
This topic has come up in several places lately so I thought I’d re-post this article I wrote, previously published in Written By, the journal of the WGAW, as How To Become A Novelist In Your Spare Time.)...

 The last few nights I’ve been restless sleeping because of the incredibly bright waxing moon, full tonight.
The February full moon is called variously, by various Native tribes: Snow Moon, Wolf Moon, and Bitter Moon.
I took BITTER MOON as the name for the fourth book in the HUNTRESS MOON series - all six books currently on sale 99c each - and you can add RC Bray’s award-winning audio for just $3.99)....

It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Why not celebrate this American hero and work on your storytelling craft—by watching Selma?
I’ve been doing a breakdown of the movie for my online Screenwriting Tricks for Authorsworkshop. The film has a wildly ambitious goal: to depict the monolith of U.S. racism; to educate its audience about King, a key civil rights battle, and the history...