Writing Life - Alexandra Sokoloff
Alexandra Sokoloff, Craig RobertsonAn author's expat life: Fiction, travel, film & television, books, books-to-film, more travel and more books.
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The moveable feast
It’s festival time! I’ve always thought of book festivals as moveable feasts (originally, holidays with variable dates) with all the spiritual and secular resonances of those celebrations.
Photo by John Thomas on Unsplash
Summer is book...
THE GRAPEVINE RV road tour: Day 3
Publication Day!
This book’s writing journey sometimes felt as long and torturous as the drive through the Grapevine pass. There were a thousand arguments, a few hundred heated debates, and at least four “why don’t you just write the...
THE GRAPEVINE Road Trip: Night 2
Flying Flags Resort and Avila Beach are SO freaking beautiful we were reluctant to leave our campsite at all. A month staying in a deck chair looking out at that view wouldn’t have been enough!
But we had work to do that night – we needed...
How we started a book festival by accident (or witchcraft)
Basically we were tricked into it by a town of canny Scottish islanders.
Craig Robertson and I have a fantastic life in Scotland, but one of our absolute favorite aspects of our life is our proximity to and relationship with this island:...
An American in Harrogate
This week Craig and I will be off to York for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival (which most people understandably shorten to “Harrogate”).
Festivals are a staple of an author’s summer: for us, there’s Harrogate in July, Bu...
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Million-selling, Thriller Award-winning crime author and screenwriter. Author/teacher of the Screenwriting Tricks for Authors books & workshops.
Crime writer. Twelfth novel, The Grapevine, published by Blackstone in June 2026, co-written with my wife Alexandra Sokoloff.
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