PODCASTS, etc.
With the release of What They Never Told Us, I’ve appeared on numerous podcasts discussing family secrets and genealogy. Here’s a list of my podcasts with links:
Lost & Found: No More Secrets. https://youtu.be/v7-sux7Y3P8?si=g8irdg9Jbwd-XNHf
Breaking the Silence. https://bbsradio.com/podcast/breaking-silence-january-19-2025
The Truth So Help Me Good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W30KsIh5pE0
The Katherine Zox Show. https://thekathrynzoxshow.com/episodes/1726
Cyrus Webb. https://www.blogtalkradio.com/conversationslive/2024/12/17/author-gail-lukasik-discusses-what-they-never-told-us-on-conversations-live
Stories from the ’78 with Tom Barnes. https://storiesfromthe78.com/stories/gail-lukasik-what-they-never-told-us
The Bookish Hour. https://youtube.com/live/A8CikRJ0x08
Conversations with Kenyatta. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1668904/episodes/16230332
Free Thinking with Montel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbh3srBr2WE
Ethical Humanist Society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64-x2cY7BDA
ARTICLES ABOUT WHAT THEY NEVER TOLD US
Severance Magazine published a review of What They Never Told Us on January 15, 2025. Click here to read this fantastic review:
https://severancemag.com
The Daily Mail. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14163377/police-officer-adopted-father-gangster-killer.html
The Washington Post: Inspired Life. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/11/27/police-dna-father-brad-ewell/
Reporters, Inc. https://thereporters.org/article/what-they-never-told-us/
Chicago Classic Magazine published an article on What They Never Told Us in their January 5, 2025 edition. To read the article, click on this link:
ARTICLES ABOUT MY MYSTERIES AND THE WRITING PROCESS
Writer’s Digest published my article: How writing mystery novels helped me write two non-fiction books.
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-nonfiction/how-writing-mystery-novels-helped-me-write-two-nonfiction-books
CrimeReads published my article on the mother’s role in gothic fiction in their September edition. To read the article, click on this link:
https://crimereads.com/author/gaillukasik/
Library Journal review of The Darkness Surrounds Us. “Lukasik blends all the elements needed for a dark suspense novel: a forbidding mansion, ghostly presences, secret passages, a hostile housekeeper, a temperamental employer, and residents unwilling to talk to outsiders. For fans of Rebecca, The Woman in White, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway.”
WHITE LIKE HER
History of Memory, winner of a Tribeca Film Award, now available on Amazon Prime. Watch my mother’s section, “The Secret Album.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvfqryi9W8
“My mother hid her racial identity”: Revisiting “The Secret Album.”Filmmaker Sarah Klein sits down with author Gail Lukasik to talk race, identity, and why their film is more relevant than ever. By Sarah Klein
https://garage.hp.com/us/en/impact/racial-identity-gail-lukasik.html
BBC Outlook, “How one woman discovered her cultural heritage.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-56652064
My second appearance on On Point Talk Television with Carlette Christmas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvfqryi9W8
BNC Amplified, Aisha Mills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5P-o1ElqSs
Washington Post article about my coming to terms with my racial identity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/10/13/white-black-multiracial-passing-census/
Washington Post names White Like Her one of the most inspiring stories of 2017.
Washington Post published my article, “My mother spent her life passing for white. Discovering her secret changed my view of race — and myself.” To read the article go to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2017/11/20/my-mother-spent-her-life-passing-as-white-discovering-her-secret-changed-my-view-of-race-and-myself/?utm_term=.019718d6558b
Watch my appearance on the Megyn Kelly Today Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNiEBnOzgVw
The Daily Beast published my article, “My mother passed as white–even to me.” To read the article go to: https://www.thedailybeast.com/my-mother-passed-as-whiteeven-to-me.
To hear a podcast I did for Cook Memorial Library here’s the link –https://shelflife.cooklib.org/2017/10/25/ep-49-authors-out-loud-gail-lukasik-white-like-her/
Salon.com published an excerpt from White Like Her. To read the excerpt go to: https://www.salon.com/2017/10/28/you-are-the-one-with-the-slaves-in-your-family/#.WfiBzpbm10k.email
Mic.com published my essay about racial identity in America. To read the piece go to: https://mic.com/articles/184393/my-mother-passed-for-white-for-most-of-her-life-heres-what-that-taught-me-about-racial-identity#.rFEzGJsmw
Speakers Boutique has invited me to join their speakers bureau. To learn more go to: http://speakersboutique.com/speakers/gail-lukasik/
Ms. Magazine blog published an excerpt from my book, White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing. To read the excerpt, go to: http://msmagazine.com/blog/2016/05/17/secrets-and-lies/
Mystery Readers Journal published my article, “Resorting to Murder,” in their Midwestern Mysteries Issue. If you’d like to read why I set the Leigh Girard series in Door County and not Chicago. go to: http://mysteryreaders.org/journal-index/midwestern-mysteries/
My essay, “A Passing Shadow,” was anthologized in Reflections on Nursing: 80 Inspiring Stories on the Art and Science of Nursing, compiled by the American Journal of Nursing. To order, go to: https://www.amazon.com/Reflections-Nursing-Inspiring-Stories…/dp/1496359062
My poetry appeared in the Spring 2022 issue of the poetry journal, 2River View. If you’d like to read my poems, go to: https://www.2river.org/2RView/26_3/poems/lukasik.html
WRITES OF PASSAGE: Adventures on the Writer’s Journey won an Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction Book (Sisters in Crime The Writing Life Series, Book 3) To order copies go to: http://amazon.com
HOMELESS, IN MY OWN WORDS: True Stories of Homeless Mothers has been ranking in the top 100 e-books on poverty on Amazon.com. For more information go to: http://www.amazon.com/Homeless-In-Own-Words-ebook/dp/B009CENV2O