Rose Sandy is a British publisher, author, entrepreneur and storytelling strategist. She is best known for combining a senior career in commercial publishing with writing international thrillers and building her own creative businesses.

She previously held senior roles at HarperCollins UK, including Publishing Director at HarperNonFiction. During her publishing career, she acquired, developed or supported books by prominent authors and public figures, including Sarina Wiegman, Myleene Klass, Justin Welby, Edwina Dunn, Rick Warren and John Maxwell.

Rose also founded the HarperCollins Author and Design Academy, a training and mentoring programme created to open opportunities for writers and designers from underrepresented backgrounds. Her professional background before publishing included roles at Sony Europe, The Coca-Cola Company and Cisco Systems.

Today, she is the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Silver Gravity Entertainment, an independent storytelling company that develops books and story worlds centred particularly on strong female protagonists. Its fiction spans international thrillers, romance, historical fiction, fantasy and speculative storytelling.

As an author, Rose writes international suspense, espionage and action-adventure fiction, often combining technology, history, cryptography, conspiracy and global intelligence. Her best-known work includes the Calla Cress/Decrypter thriller series, featuring a museum curator and intelligence operative who solves mysteries buried in history.