Helen Sedwick

Author and Screenwriter

Santa Fe, New Mexico

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About Helen

As part of a theater family, Helen Sedwick grew up on Broadway previews and Off-Off Broadway experiments. Her family ran a summer stock theater where she fell in love with the banter of Neil Simon and Noel Coward. After working as an advertising copywriter, Helen became the family black sheep by attending University of Chicago Law School. From there, she ventured to California where she represented entrepreneurs, from the admirable to the vile. She raised her identical twin daughters and wrote fiction. It was a busy time.
Helen’s novel COYOTE WINDS was published in 2013 and her SELF-PUBLISHER’S LEGAL HANDBOOK was named a top resource for independent authors by Publisher’s Weekly. At conferences and on podcasts, she strived to demystify legal concepts for writers. If she couldn’t write the Great American Novel, she would help someone else do it.
Helen’s experience at translating legalese went into high gear when her home and neighborhood burned down in the 2017 PG&E wildfires. She became a public face for fire victims in community meetings, the courts, and the press. With other volunteers, she helped thousands get back on their feet financially, and they changed the course of the bankruptcy proceeding.
Now retired from law, Helen is writing full-time. Her screenplays have placed in The Writers Lab, Austin Film Festival, CineStory, and other competitions. Current work includes Taking Wing (animated feature), Muffler Man (comedy feature), 10 Million (crime feature), and an adaptation of her novel Coyote Winds (coming-of-age feature). And more screenplays are in the works.

Unique traits: Retired Attorney Author of Self-Publisher's Legal Handbook

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COYOTE WINDS Budget: $10M - $30M | Historical In the 1930s, a carefree teen enjoys an unfenced life on the prairie with his coyote. But when drought and hard times hit, he must find the courage to stand up to his father and pursue his dream of being on the radio.
TAKING WING Budget: $10M - $30M | Fantasy When her magic is stolen, a selfish and clueless fairy must rely on a human girl with a rich imagination to chase the thief through a land of fantastical creatures and recover her powers.