Michael Thompson has been a journalist, producer and media executive for the last 15 years. He was the Executive Producer of the Ray Hadley Morning Show, then the Head of Content for Macquarie Media, and has won numerous professional awards including a Kennedy Award for Journalism. He now owns a podcast production company, and is the co-host of one of the highest-ranked podcasts in Australia with around 500,000 downloads per month. He has extensive content marketing experience using social media, having previously built and maintained pages with 100,000+ followers. He can be found at https://michaelthompson.net.au/. He lives in Sydney with his wife and two young children and All the Perfect Days is his second novel. Michael's first book, How to Be Remembered, was published internationally in 2023, translated into seven languages, and is currently being adapted into a film.