DEBUT BOOK COMING SOON!
Baby Bake Off (working title) is a brutally honest, darkly funny memoir about what happens when grief collides with the desperate desire to create life. When Lukas' father died, something shifted. He and Greg had never planned on having kids, but mortality has a way of changing your perspective. As gay men in Australia, surrogacy was their best path to biological parenthood, but they had no idea what they were signing up for.
What followed was five years of navigating Australia's altruistic surrogacy system, where you can't pay surrogates and finding someone willing to carry your child becomes an exercise in vulnerability, hope, and sheer persistence. Baby Bake Off documents the medical procedures, the emotional toll, the relationships tested under impossible pressure, and the final trimester under COVID-19 lockdowns. But more than that, it's about what drives people to extraordinary acts of love, both in creating family and in helping others create theirs.
About Lukas Stone
Lukas is a Sydney-based author, business owner, and content creator living with his husband Greg and his son Grayson, born via surrogacy in 2021 after a five-year journey that tested every limit of resilience, hope, and determination.
As a child he would wake up in the middle of the night and read books until sunrise. Studying advanced English at school introduced him to Shakespeare, Austen, and Keats, but discovering Thomas Harris changed everything.
Harris’ psychological thrillers and similar crime fiction ultimately shaped Lukas desire to pursue forensic science, proving books don't just entertain, they can change the direction of your entire life.
For years, Lukas loved storytelling through corporate work, but his writer identity truly crystallised during the creation of Baby Bake Off where he realised that the story wasn't just about documenting a journey, it was about finally claiming 'writer' as an identity, not just skillset.
Books by Lukas Stone
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![A father and son in bed looking at a wall mural of magic scenes, including flying witches, a volcano with lava, a dinosaur, and a flying car, with the text 'LET'S TALK ABOUT MAGIC THINGS' in the top left corner.]()
Let's Talk About Magic Things
Let's Talk About Magic Things is a picture book that captures the authentic bedtime ritual between a father and his son. Every night, 4-year-old Grayson says, "Let's talk about magic things," and together with his dad Lukas, they imagine fantastical scenarios—beds that time-travel to the age of dinosaurs, rocket-powered skis, monster trucks with marshmallow wheels, fart detectors, magic toasters with ‘banana mode’ and so much more.
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![A person in black clothing holding their hands together in a praying position with a rosary and a rainbow-colored dripping cross pendant. The text 'Altered Boy' is at the top, and 'Lukas Stone' is at the bottom.]()
Altered Boy
Altered Boy is the story of what happens when your church destroys you, your parents choose the institution over their son, and you have to build a life from the wreckage.
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![Book cover for 'Baby Bake Off: A Memoir' by Lukas Stone. Dark background with an illuminated wire whisk filled with glowing orange beads, sparkles around it. Subtitle: 'One baby. Twelve attempts. Three women. Two men.']()
Baby Bake Off
Baby Bake Off (working title) is a brutally honest, darkly funny memoir about what happens when grief collides with the desperate desire to create life.
