Emily Gale

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 in the YA category of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, 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 with Penguin Random House.