Julie McGowan has been a successful short story writer for magazines and competitions for two decades, in between writing four novels, pantomime scripts, songs and scripts for adult and children's drama productions, and features for national and regional newspapers and magazines. "Close To You" is an anthology of some of the short stories Julie McGowan has had published over the years, some of which have won awards in competitions. We at Sunpenny Publishing are proud to have released Julie's first three novels, The Mountains Between, Just One More Summer, and Don't Pass Me By - excerpts of which you will find at the end of this book, following Julie's author page. We hope you enjoy Julie's writing as much as hundreds of thousands of others have, evidenced by the fan mail she receives! Just One More Summer will also be released in German in December 2015, by Random House's imprint in Germany.