Emily Gale has been involved in the children's book industry for nearly twenty years. In the UK she worked as an editor for Penguin and Egmont, and later as a freelance manuscript consultant and pre-school book writer. In Australia she has worked with literary agent Sheila Drummond, finding new children's and YA authors; she has reviewed for Bookseller and Publisher, been a judge for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (YA Category) and spent several happy years at independent bookshop Readings as a children's buyer, during which time she was instrumental in establishing the Readings Children's Book Prize. Emily's writing includes two novels for teenagers - Girl, Aloud in 2009, Steal My Sunshine in 2013 - and Eliza Boom's Diary, in 2014, for younger readers. Her next novel, The Other Side of Summer, will be published in June 2016 by Penguin Random House.