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Writing Life - Alexandra Sokoloff
An author's expat life: Fiction, travel, film & television, books, books-to-film, more travel and more books.
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The moveable feast
I’ve always thought of book festivals as moveable feasts, with all the spiritual and secular resonances of those celebrations.
THE GRAPEVINE RV road tour: Day 3
by Craig Robertson
THE GRAPEVINE Road Trip: Night 2
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How we started a book festival by accident (or witchcraft)
Who wouldn’t want to throw a yearly bookish party for author friends and extended reader and book family?
An American in Harrogate
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Five on 5 - Classics-Connected Fiction, Film & Television
Five on 5 is my favorite regular event on Substack. This month’s (optional) theme is especially delicious: classics-connected fiction. But of course, I’m going to have to expand that one to film and TV, too.
Tales from the Road Day 4
The Grapevine RV road tour: Earthquakes, redwoods and pelicans
Tales From The Road: Days 1 & 2
Driving an RV across California. What could possibly go wrong?
Ground Zero: The Grapevine
Abby Gomersall is MISSING
The author-reader conversation
Especially with a series, the conversations we have with readers will shape the next books in the series.
Meet Lady Luck!
From dream ride to partner in crime: Lou's RV
Five on 5 - June fiction
Writing Life: Fractured Families - & my book journal
On the road again - THE GRAPEVINE tour!
In which we hit the road in an RV to follow our own book trail through California.
The Grapevine launch tour: June 20-28
Book 1 of the Lost Highway thrillers
The Theory
Posted by Lou Gomersall
Have you seen this man?
Posted by Lou Gomersall
Please help find Abby Gomersall
Abby was last seen in the early morning of Saturday, October 25, 2025.
What I'm reading/watching/writing this week
Alexandra Sokoloff's Writing Life
5 on Five - top reads of the year so far
In which I join the Bookstack 5 on Five party and review my top 5 books of the year so far - heavy on the female rage!