Lukas Stone 🇦🇺 🏳️‍🌈 👨‍👨‍👦

Thank you! Now that I've said it out loud on the internet, I fear a rejection letter coming, but for a brief while I was super excited 🤣

I am trying to get my debut memoir published. I also write children's books 😊

ZOMG! ZOMG! I got a response from an agent asking for a full copy of my manuscript 🥳 Trying not to get my hopes up, but I wasn't expecting a reply for weeks!

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Checking inbox every 26-seconds waiting for query letter responses has me like...

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My summer of discontent Two dads, a 4-year-old in meltdown mode, and a holiday system that doesn't work. A raw essay on parenting through Australia's broken summer leave equation.

I restarted antidepressants this summer. Not because of my son, but to be a better dad for my son 💙 Read my essay on surviving Xmas with a dysregulated 4yo, boomer parenting advice, and a system that was never built for modern families.

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Thank you!

Thank you so much 🙏

Big day today. Query letters going out to local Sydney agents. Nervous as all hell, but excited at the same time, please wish me luck 🤞

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Smash repair and tyre places have some of the best-equipped places to write! I've done many a chapter at Bob Jane T-Mart 🤣 I really enjoyed reading your blog post and update. Keep that momentum going for those final 16-chapters!

Back in the office today after two lovely weeks of snowboarding in Whistler. Am missing being on my board and the freedom it brings my mind, but also looking forward to getting my query letters finished and off to agents asap 💪

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Haha! Thank you! I did 🍷

Hey I'm Lukas, a Sydney-based gay dad who just finished writing a memoir about our 5-year surrogacy journey. I'm half-way through my first children's book, and have another memoir in the works 😊

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Just finished and sent off my publishing proposal and my author questionnaire to my writing coach. Next step, query letters! Guess it's too early in the day for a glass of bubbles to celebrate?

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TGIF folks! Hope that you all have a great day! I'm off to The Cottage tonight...IYKYK 🤣

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Ok folks, give a boy a hand please? Where can I find a decent/central list of literary agents in Australia that I can pitch my memoir to?

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I hope this book is your 'Heated Rivalry' moment! Queer kids here in Australia need a book like this. Sending you all the vibes 🙏

Thanks so much for your feedback, I really appreciate it! I just noticed that some of the functionality that I built in has been stripped out because I'm on a "lower" plan, so I'll have to fix that 🤦‍♂️

Ok, big reveal time 😬 I've taken the plunge and pulled the trigger on my author website and made it live! I would really love you hear your thoughts! Just please be gentle, it's my first time 🤣

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I'm doing it myself too. Here is it, I'd love to know what you think: stonestories.com.au

OMG following just because he has the same name as me 🔥

Having a 'perfectionist' moment. Hesitating on pulling the trigger and launching my author website as it's not 100% as I'd like it to be. But I need it for my query letters. Would anyone care to look at it before I make it public and give me some feedback?

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First day back in the office for 2026. If anyone can remind me how to do my job that would be awesome. Kthnxbi...

Can you come help me get organised? I feel like I'm struggling to get started in 2026 😕

What is on everyone's to-do list today?

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Sixty books to look out for in the first half of 2026 The fiction and non-fiction titles set to dominate group chats, book clubs and bedside tables in the months ahead.

An eclectic mix of titles here but missing some key new reads from Aussie authors such as 'Yeah the Boys' and 'King of Dirt' by @v8sheppard.bsky.social and 'Not Like Other Dads' by Sean Szeps to name but three. Hopefully my book will be in the 2027 list 🤞

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Fellow writers. What are your ambitions for your work 2026? I hope to get my own author website launched, start sending out query letters and source an illustrator for my second (children's) book while I strive to get my memoir published 🤞

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Current status

LOL, I love this 🤣

Deep in design-mode building my author website tonight. Honestly, I think writing the miscarriage chapters of my memoir was easier 🙄 Send help!

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