VJ Books presents Alexandra Sokoloff!

Alexandra Sokoloff is the Thriller award-winning author of The Unseen, The Price, and The Harrowing, which was also nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and Anthony Award for Best First Novel.

 

Sokoloff is a California native who grew up in both Northern and Southern California as the daughter of scientist and educator parents, which drove her into musical theater at an early age. She acted, sang, danced and played classical piano through the turbulent tween years, and started directing plays at age sixteen, a year she also lived in Istanbul as an AFS exchange student and began college.

After college she moved to Los Angeles, where she has made an interesting living writing novel adaptations and original suspense and horror scripts for numerous Hollywood studios (Sony, Fox, Disney, Miramax), for producers such as Michael Bay, David Heyman, Laura Ziskin and Neal Moritz. Her adaptation of Sabine Deitmer's psychological thriller Cold Kisses, co-written with Kimball Greenough and Thomas Reuter, was filmed in Germany by director Carl Schenkel.

 

Sokoloff contributed to The Darker Mask (edited by Gary Phillips and Christopher Chambers)--a novel of wildly fantastic stories by a cross section of today's cutting-edge urban fantasy and crime writers.

 

 

In Sokoloff's new supernatural thriller, Book of Shadows, homicide Detective Adam Garrett races to uncover a psychotic killer before he strikes again.

In her free time, Alex enjoys adventure travel and all kinds of dance, which she has also taught, and performs in the all-author Killer Thriller Band, and with Heather Graham's Slush Pile Players.  She lives in California and North Carolina.