My mum, Elizabeth Dale, also writes books for children and teenagers so I’ve always really loved making up stories, and was submitting manuscripts to publishers from a very young age! I always knew I wanted to do something creative – either writing or acting – or both!
When/how did you realize you had a creative dream or calling to fulfill? I have always loved acting, ever since I was cast as Mary in the local nativity (only to lose my two front teeth – just like Kitty in Someone Else's Life!) and I actually trained at drama school in London after graduating from university, followed by various acting jobs, including a summer playing Juliet in a national tour of Romeo and Juliet. If you couldn’t be an author, what would your ideal career be? The poignant, perceptive and beautifully articulated story follows 17 year old Rosie on a devastating journey to self-discovery after she loses her mother to Huntington’s Disease.How would you describe yourself in three words? Dale muses on her website: ‘It's a total dream - a total rollercoaster - and I'm enjoying every second.’ Now Someone Else’s Life, Dale’s first book for Young Adults, has secured a two-book deal with Simon & Schuster, with international rights being sold to the US, Canada and Germany.
Since then Dale has gained a degree in English Literature from Sheffield, studied in the States, been to Drama School, and spent a year travelling through South-East Asia.Īfter a brief panic that she’d missed her one chance to be published (having won the 2008 SCBWI Undiscovered Voices competition whilst she was trekking across Vietnam), she finally got the call she was waiting for. The first sign of real promise came when she was just 8 years old and her, somewhat macabre, poem ‘The Fate of the School Hamster’ was published in the Cadbury Book of Children’s Poetry. The daughter of prolific children’s writer Elizabeth Dale, she grew up surrounded by stories, encouraged to explore her creativity whenever and however possible. It might not come as much of a surprise to hear that Katie Dale has some literary talent.
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