Elaine Forrestal is an award-winning author of fiction titles for young readers. Her novel Someone Like Me won a Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award and a West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (Hoffman Award), was commended for the National Award for Special Educational Needs Book and Software Awards in the UK, and has been translated into Slovenian and Italian. Elaine is a full-time writer who is based in Western Australia and travels all over the world to speak at festivals and to present writing workshops. She has appeared at events in Australia, Singapore, France, Italy and Ireland.