GAIL LUCK ... Australian writer & author


The Author lives in Wollongong, a multicultural, regional city south of Sydney. Married with four adult children, she has taught English to speakers of other languages for more than twenty years. The adult students she teaches have become an inspiration for many of the stories she has written over the years, stories of life told to her by migrants and refugees. Her aim in retelling these stories is to provide an awareness of the similarities and differences between people around the world.
Previously publications include a series of Bumduggle Davis children’s books.

 

The FRIENDSHIP SERIES                   Published 2017/8  CUSTOM BOOKS Noveletta imprint


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THE FRIENDSHIP TRAP ... Book ONE

When the BoobRats are hot, they’re really hot! And they’re pumping today! Out in the playground, bumcheeks bouncing, they mince along, with Kellie Francisco leading the pack – as always.

She’s the hottest chick in the BoobRat pack. All the others ape her style. She’s tied the ends of her regulation school shirt into a knot so that ten centimetres of brown belly show between the shirt and her pants.

And those pants! Some kind of leggings or trakkie daks, I think. You know the kind, made from some stretchy stuff. But they aren’t part of any uniform I’ve ever seen in the catalogue.

If they were any tighter, they’d have split right up her bum as soon as she sat down in the school bus this morning.

 

BOOK TWO – RECIPE FOR TROUBLE

I wake to the smell of ginger and garlic and the sizzle of oil. Mmm …breakfast. I turn my head towards the kitchen sounds. Oww! Ohhh! My head. I try to sit up, to put my head in my hands. No go.

And my bed seems to be rocking up and back, up and back, making me feel dizzy and sick.

Where am I? And how did I get here? My head starts throbbing and my eyes ache, so I close them against the bright sunlight creeping through a crack in the timber wall.

I hear the sound of bare feet slapping on the timber floor. Then a shadow stands over me. It’s a woman, with an oversized T-shirt over her rolled up pants. She smiles at me, showing big gaps in her teeth.

You wan’ blekfas?’ she asks.

 


BOOK THREE – GAMES OVER

Who was I kidding?

I flung myself onto the bed and before I knew it I was chasing zeds. But wait up! I could hear the heavy tread of many feet in the hall. The door to my room slammed back against the wall and my eyes jerked open. What seemed like hundreds of hooves clattered over the boards as I sat up, stunned by the noise, while the heat of the combined breath of a pack of wild zebra made the room into a sweatbox.

Cool! This was the coolest! Uncle Merv’s pets were zebra. I got up and headed for the shed out the back. I could hear their clattering hooves behind me. I’d need to feed them and get them some water.

This was going to be a nightmare, I suddenly thought. How was I going to keep them safe? How could I keep them healthy? And who would watch them while I was at school?

I panicked,: something was licking me.

I woke ... and smiled as a small dog jumped

onto the bed and licked me – so you must be Dotti?

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BOOK ONE

Published USA FEBRUARY 2017
  RELEASE APRIL 2017
US Trade Paperback 150pp
   ISBN 978-1542916608

 

BOOK TWO

Published USA JUNE 2017
  RELEASE AUGUST 2017
US Trade Paperback 150p
 ISBN 978-1547085491

 

 

 

BOOK THREE

Published JANUARY 2018
  RELEASE MAY 2018
US Trade Paperback 160p
 ISBN 978-1717117861


 

 

 

 

FIASILI'S LEGACY                         Published 2015 CUSTOM BOOKS Noveletta imprint

FIASILI’S LEGACY

…for such a tiny baby, Fiasili leaves a huge legacy.

Sisters Kate and Cassie get more than they bargained for when their grandmere’s birthday gift of a trip to Samoa turns into a nightmare.

While Kate has eyes only for Tavita, Cassie finds herself getting deeper and deeper into a mystery involving Atelina, whose fear of her surly cousin, Rata,

Seems out of all proportion. Add political intrigue, the kidnapping of tiny Fiasili, a creepy old uncle and the plot thickens…

Published USA October 2015
  RELEASED DECEMBER 2015
   ISBN 978-1514248878

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STIFF AS A BOARD                         Published 2015 CUSTOM BOOKS Noveletta imprint

STIFF AS A BOARD

Just then, dad came rushing out of his office.  ‘Jane, I need some help in the embalming room.  Give me a hand.’

You’re probably wondering what my dad is talking about.  Why on earth would an ordinary family have an embalming room?  Is my dad some kind of sicko freak? Or does he practice ancient rituals on family members? 

Well, you’d be wrong on both counts. 

My dad runs the family funeral business.  Our family has been dealing in death for the past fifty years.  We live above the funeral parlour.

It’s a great place to live,  but none of my mates want to hang out at my place. They seem spooked by the idea of hanging out in my bedroom when there are dead bodies in the fridge on the floor below.

No … not in our family fridge, of course.  The bodies are in the refrigerated cabinet next to the autopsy lab, each one in separate drawers.  They’re refrigerated to help preserve them until they can be embalmed for viewing by the family of the person who has passed away. Passed away’ is the polite way of saying ‘died’…

A unique and humourous look at death and afterwards!
 

Published  October 2015
  Release DECEMBER 2015
   ISBN 978-
1514814499

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