Alina Adams Media

Alina Adams Media Bestselling author, online storyteller, and electonic book consultant In 1994 Alina Adams became a writer at E!

Entertainment Television’s daily talk show Pure Soap. She went on to work at ABC Television as a writer for the transition of the soap opera Loving when it was reincarnated as the daytime drama The City. She also worked as a researcher for the Daytime Emmy Awards for ten years. In 2001 she joined Procter & Gamble Productions as website producer for As the World Turns and Guiding Light, became thei

r creative content producer in 2006, and served as their creative director of online serials in 2009. There she penned As The World Turns book tie-ins, Oakdale Confidential (New York Times’ bestseller) and The Man From Oakdale (2010 SCRIBE Award winner), and co-wrote the Guiding Light tie-in book, Jonathan’s Story (also a New York Times’ bestseller). At Procter & Gamble she also pioneered the concept of online continuations of a soap opera, with AnotherWorldToday.com and Mindy’s Twitter. Her latest groundbreaking project is Soap Opera 451: A Time Capsule of Daytime Drama’s Greatest Moments an Enhanced Electronic Book chronicling daytime drama’s greatest moments over the past 75 years as voted on by the most popular Award-winning actors, writers, and producers, as well as other television industry professionals and of course, the fans. The Enhanced Electronic Book features exclusive interviews with the scenes’ most prominent players; links to classic video clips; and updates on “Where Are They Now?”

In addition to the soap world, Alina is an accomplished fiction writer and television producer. Her knowledge of Russian took her around the world as a figure skating researcher and television producer for ABC, NBC, TNT and ESPN. She used her experience to write a book series of figure skating mysteries (Murder on Ice, On Thin Ice, Axel of Evil, Death Drop, Skate Crime) for Berkley Prime Crime publishing. The books are available in print and as Enhanced E-Books with professional skating videos embedded in the text as an integral part of the story. She also published a biography of Sarah Hughes three months before Hughes won the 2002 gold medal at the Salt Lake City Olympics. Her romance novels have been published by Avon and Dell. Among them: When a Man Loves a Woman now available as an enhanced e-book, Annie’s Wild Ride, The Fictitious Marquis, and Thieves at Heart. She founded Alina Adams Media in 2011 to help other published authors turn their books into Enhanced E-Book titles. She is the producer on Dan Elish's children's fantasy novel, "The Worldwide Dessert Contest: Multimedia Edition," and serves as a consultant to other authors.

I talk "Guiding Light"... all the way in Germany!
04/29/2026

I talk "Guiding Light"... all the way in Germany!

Alina Adams - With Humanity & Deep GL Love - Light & Hope

Daughter has very important job for University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music - CCM production of "Sweeney ...
04/20/2026

Daughter has very important job for University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music - CCM production of "Sweeney Todd." She mops up all the blood from the stage afterwards! As she told me, "This is the only time you will ever see me mop." Proud mom!

Thank you to those who shared their thoughts with me for this The 74 post:
04/05/2026

Thank you to those who shared their thoughts with me for this The 74 post:

Adams: New York City parents starkly split on whether replacing decades-old high school exit exams with Portrait of a Graduate standards is good idea

Ever wish you could turn the tables on all those book marketing scammers. I did. Here's what happened.... (Link in comme...
04/01/2026

Ever wish you could turn the tables on all those book marketing scammers. I did. Here's what happened.... (Link in comments)

First "Fictional Families, Real NYC Schools" episode to break 600 views! Guess you all really love "Will & Grace!" Or, l...
04/01/2026

First "Fictional Families, Real NYC Schools" episode to break 600 views! Guess you all really love "Will & Grace!" Or, like me, you really hate the retcon of the reboot.

Either way, check out my most popular segment to date at:

I renounce the reboot. Will and Grace did have kids who met in college. But where did they go to school before then?Please like, share, subscribe and leave a...

Talking "Telling the Untold Story" with Kyra Davis Lurie at this weekend's History Through Fiction conference!
03/31/2026

Talking "Telling the Untold Story" with Kyra Davis Lurie at this weekend's History Through Fiction conference!

At this weekend's History Through Fiction conference with Eric Weintraub, Jillian Forseberg, and Colin Mustful.
03/30/2026

At this weekend's History Through Fiction conference with Eric Weintraub, Jillian Forseberg, and Colin Mustful.

Come listen to me - and have lunch!
02/26/2026

Come listen to me - and have lunch!

✨ Save the Date, Book Lovers! ✨The Junior League of Morristown is thrilled to announce our 24th Annual Lunch with the Authors — an afternoon of stories, conversation, and connection you won’t want to miss.

📖 Featuring three acclaimed authors: Alina Adams Media, Shelley Noble, and Emily Franklin

🗓 Friday, May 8th 11:00 AM
📍 Spring Brook Country Club, Morristown

🍽 Lunch • ✍️ Author talks • 📚 Inspiration

🎟 Tickets go on sale March 1st — mark your calendars and tag your book club!

More details coming soon… 💫

Thank you to PLACE NYC - Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum and Education for having me on their brand new podcas...
01/15/2026

Thank you to PLACE NYC - Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum and Education for having me on their brand new podcast to discuss the topic I've been writing about for 20+ years: Gifted and Talented education in NYC. I ask questions I strongly suspect no one at New York City Public Schools has thought about. See if you agree at:

Podcast Episode · Schooled: Inside the Nation’s Largest School District · 01/15/2026 · 31m

Been fighting for 20 years and I have no intention of stopping now. Comrades, I shall see you at the barricades!
01/02/2026

Been fighting for 20 years and I have no intention of stopping now. Comrades, I shall see you at the barricades!

The rationale for this proposed change is that it will benefit marginalized children. Except that it won’t. We know it won’t. It will, instead, hurt precisely those it’s supposed to help.

You know your child is gifted, but what do you need to do to prove it to the New York City Department of Education? What...
11/15/2025

You know your child is gifted, but what do you need to do to prove it to the New York City Department of Education? What school options does your child have... and how do you get them in? I explain all this and more on Tuesday. Space is extremely limited. RSVP at:

Archives New York City is getting a new mayor in 2026. We have received multiple queries about what this means for elementary school Gifted & Talented programs, middle school Screened and Honors programs, and Specialized and Screened High Schools. Join Alina Adams, author of “Getting into NYC Kind...

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