Hi, I am an author and an actress and I love nothing more than creating characters - both on page and on-stage! I studied English Literature at Sheffield University, spent a year at UNC-Chapel Hill, followed by a crazy year at Mountview drama school, a national Shakespeare tour, and back-packing through South-East Asia. I love all genres, and am busily working on a variety of projects from novels to picture-books - whilst playing the odd princess/assassin/zombie in-between!My debut YA/Crossover novel SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE will be published by Delacorte Press (US) and Doubleday (Canada) in February 2012, and my FAIRY TALE TWISTS series (Orchard Books) for 5+ are out now! Each rhyming story takes a familiar fairytale character and reveals their version of events - as you've never seen them before!SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE: When Rosie's mother, Trudie, dies from Huntington's Disease, Rosie's grief is intensified by the fear that she will also inherit the fatal illness. Until she discovers that Trudie was not her real mother after all - that Rosie was secretly swapped at birth with a sickly baby destined to die... Devastated that her whole life has been a lie, Rosie tags along on her ex-boyfriend's gap year trip to secretly trace her birth mother. But as Rosie delves into her past and discovers yet more of her family's deeply-buried secrets and lies, she is left with a heart-breaking dilemma - to continue living a lie, or to reveal a truth that will shatter the lives of everyone around her... Read Chapter One Here! http://katiedaleuk.blogspot.com/p/sneak-peek-someone-elses-life.html