She will make playlists for her characters, however, and will usually listen to one or two songs before writing in order to get into their headspace. While writing, she doesn’t really listen to music, since she gets distracted quite easily, and is able to get pulled out of a story she is writing by some well timed lyrics or a certain beat. All of a sudden, she now a had a deadline, and before she knew it, she was pitching to publishers on a partial manuscript. The agent loved it and signed her.Īt this point, she had to shelve the other manuscript that she was so sure was the Absolute Best, one that was ready to go and finished, and begin from scratch on a new book that only had a couple chapters finished on. One of these was “To Kill a Kingdom”, which she had only written a few chapters of. Out of the handful of agents that responded to her, just one asked to look at her other stories as well, and so Alexandra sent off a bunch of random ideas she was working on. “To Kill a Kingdom” wound up happening by mere chance. Of this seventy, only a handful were even a bit interested.
She believed that it was the best thing ever, she found out later it wasn’t, and queried it to roughly seventy agents. The very first book she wrote and queried out to agents was a modern-day fantasy book about a group of buddies on a ghostly quest. Writing is all she ever wanted to do, except for a couple of her teenage years when she was certain she would become a Spice Girl. It may be filled with intense deadlines, a lot of late nights and the emails never end, but she loves each and every single moment of it.
When she isn’t busy making stories up, she can be found organizing food crawls all around the city, binge-watching Korean dramas, and buying far too many cushions.Īlexandra loves being an author and believes it is a dream come true. Alexandra Christo made the decision to write books when she was only four years old and her teacher told her that she could not be a fairy.Īlexandra has a BA in Creative Writing and works in London as a copywriter, both things make her sound much more grown up than she really feels.
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