Sandi JeromeSandi Jerome (Sandra Cook Jerome) is a bestselling author, produced screenwriter, playwright, and graduate of UCLA's Advanced Screenwriting program. Her books have reached #1 in Amazon's category bestseller charts, and her screenplay, Runaway Cricket is currently being produced as an animated musical by BlackOrb.com. She has been a finalist in major screenplay competitions, including the Academy Nicholl Fellowships, Page International, and the Austin Film Festival. Sandi grew up on an avocado farm in Escondido, California (as Sandy Cook), where climbing high to pick fruit and jumping into thick piles of leaves convinced her she could fly. This childhood imagination inspired her young adult fantasy series, Kira and Henry, which follows a teen princess who must hide her ability to fly or face banishment. The first installment, Quest into the Forbidden Lands, was a 2nd Rounder in the 2023 Austin Film Festival and a 2024 Kindle Book Review finalist.An enrolled, blood member of the Cherokee Nation, Sandi is a two-time fellow of the Native American Media Alliance (NAMA). For her first NAMA TV writing fellowship, she drew on her twenty-plus years of experience as a soccer player and coach to pen Technically Soccer, a half-hour comedy about a women's professional soccer team that gets an AI-Robot coach. Her second NAMA fellowship yielded Blood Moon Wolf (developed as both a TV pilot and feature), which follows a wolf that transforms into a girl to become a spirit guide. Additionally, her middle-grade book Sleep Warrior, based on her Cherokee ancestor, reached #3 on Coverfly's Red List for Animated Manuscripts. To bring her Native American stories into schools, Sandi is actively seeking a traditional publisher for these works.As a Florida resident, annual passholder, and certified Disney expert, Sandi wrote Pixie Dust Death, a mystery set at Walt Disney World. She later created a non-Disney equivalent, Wilma Wallaby: Genius Girl Detective, set in an invented theme park. She is also the author of The Amazing Animals of Disney's Animal Kingdom. Sandi has extensive experience as a writer-for-hire, completing nearly a dozen book-to-screen adaptations and producer collaborations. She wrote a feature adaptation of Hijacked for producer Melissa Shevela (Helicopter Productions) and Autumn Bailey, and adapted Jake and Clara, a historical drama based on the book by Wall Street Journal bestselling author David R. Stokes. Sandi and Stokes also co-authored Churchill's Mum: The Story of Jennie Jerome. This deeply personal project involved years of research tracing her husband Keith's lineage to the American heiress, Winston Churchill's mother and Keith's fifth cousin, exploring how Churchill's half-American heritage helped defeat Hitler. Driven by a love for science, Sandi enjoys designing edible gardens and running botany experiments. Her early fascination with the nearby San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station inspired her action script, Use of Deadly Force, which gained technical authenticity thanks to her husband's background as a nuclear industry technical writer. Sandi's past volunteer work with a technology group bringing email to assisted living residents inspired her body-switching comedy, Time for Lily, a First-Round Finalist in Script Magazine's Open Door Contest. She is also collaborating with her biologist granddaughter on a technical book about salt-tolerant plants.Her sci-fi thriller script, Last Woman, explores the multiverse and technology gone awry, earning a semifinalist spot in Final Draft's Big Break contest. Previously, Sandi was the first editor of Digital Dealer Magazine, wrote computer software reviews for major publications, and authored numerous computer guides. After selling her technology company in 2022, she transitioned to writing full-time, maintaining a rigorous pace of at least 10 pages a day. For Sandi, "Writing is life!" Read More Read Less