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Alexandra Sokoloff
goodreads author profile
url
http://www.goodreads.com/alexandrasokoloff
gender
female
place of birth
The United States
website
genre
Mystery & Thrillers, Horror
influences
Shirley Jackson, Anne Rice, Ira Levin, Daphne DuMaurier, Stephen King, Graham Masterson, Tom Stoppard, Lillian Hellman
member since
September 2008
about this author
I'm a California native and 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've made an interesting living doing novel adaptations and selling original suspense and horror scripts to various Hollywood studios, with one film made so far: an adaptation of novelist Sabine Deitmer's thriller, COLD KISSES.
My ghost story, THE HARROWING, debuted from St. Martin's Press in 2006, and was nominated for Bram Stoker and Anthony awards for Best First Novel. The story is based on incidents from my high school and college years and grew out of my fascination with the correlation between mental/emotional illness and pa...more
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The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.53 — 113 ratings — published 2006 5 editions |
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The Price by Alexandra Sokoloff (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.54 — 54 ratings — published 2008 3 editions |
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The Unseen by Alexandra Sokoloff (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.79 — 33 ratings — published 2009 |
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Outbreak! Plagues That Changed History (Hardcover) by Bryn Barnard |
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The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (Hardcover) by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author) |
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"But yield who will their separation, my object in living is to unite my avocation and my vocation as my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, and the work is play for mortal stakes, is the deed ever really done for heaven and the future's sakes? "
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Hi Alexandria,
Always great to meet another horror andf thriller fan. There's a couple of mine that you might like. THE LUNDQUIST CHRONICLES are inspired by MNR James and Nigel Kneale's Quatermass and available on http://www.lulu.com/content/4649341 HOLLYWOOD BOWL is meantime a thriller and you can look that one up on http://www.lulu.com/content/2557400 Thanks for the friendship on Goodreads and hope to hear from you shortly.
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