Sheila Sobel

As a Senior Auditor for Warner Bros., Sheila oversaw production costs for films including “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” the “Matrix” trilogy, “The Dark Knight” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” After working on 70+ Independent and Studio movies, Sheila stepped away from the film business to complete her first YA novel.

Winner of the 2017 Killer Nashville Reader's Choice Award for Best YA Fiction and Finalist for the 2017 Silver Falchion Award for Best YA Fiction, she was also nominated for the 2016 Allegra Johnson Prize in Novel Writing through the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.

A member of SCBWI since 2010, Sheila is also a member of International Thriller Writers (ITW), Sisters in Crime (SinC), Children’s Book Writers-LA (CBW-LA) and Women in Film (WIF).

When not writing, Sheila volunteers her time walking dogs rescued from local shelters by the Amanda Foundation. She lives in Southern California with her husband, two rescue dogs and two rescue cats.