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Alina Adams has worked for ABC Daytime, Procter &amp; Gamble Productions, and the Daytime Emmy Awards. Her tie-in novels, Oakdale Confidential (As the World Turns) and Jonathan’s Story (Guiding Light) were New York Times bestsellers, while The Man From Oakdale won a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. She wrote the officially sanctioned continuations of Another World with Another World Today, and Guiding Light with Mindy’s Twitter. She currently writes for SoapHub.com, which originally serialized her May 2025 historical fiction novel, <a href="https://www.historythroughfiction.com/go-on-pretending" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Go On Pretending</a>, which is set in the 1950s world of radio soaps as they transition to television, and what that means for the show’s African-American leading man. Read more at <a href="http://www.alinaadams.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AlinaAdams.com</a>.

Alina Adams

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