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Sandra Cook Jerome - Sandi Jerome is a retired magazine editor, writer, and PAL author of non-fiction for the technology and accounting industry. As a programmer, she developed a software product she sold in 2022 and decided to switch to creative fiction and travel non-fiction.

To make the transition to creative work, she completed the Advanced Screenwriter program at UCLA and has written a dozen screenplays; many of them have been finalists in various contests over the years. She is currently dusting these off, rewriting, requesting coverage, rewriting and submitting to contests in 2023. Fingers crossed!

During the Covid lockdown, Sandi's granddaughter converted one of Sandi’s screenplays; Princess Quest into a novel and then taught Sandi how to do that. Sandi then self-published for Chandra on Amazon. After attending the SCBWI Conference, her first novel, Sleep Warrior, has been requested by agents and editors. Sleep Warrior is a middle-grade fiction based on her actual Cherokee ancestors, and Sandi is an enrolled and blood member of the Cherokee Nation. She hopes to get the word out about the history of her people - but in a fun and smart way. Sandi likes to create Native American characters that are memorable, engaging and non-stereotypical. Most of her scripts have a Native American part - for many, the lead is a female, Indigenous person.

Sandi is also a certified Disney expert, and she wrote and published a non-fiction book, The Amazing Animals of Disney’s Animal Kingdom. As a Florida pass holder, she visits the parks weekly and was inspired to write her second novel, Murder at the Magic Kingdom.