Two-Week Wait

Luke C Jackson is an author, teacher and researcher based in Melbourne, Australia. Luke C Jackson is a writer of novels, screenplays, games, and graphic novels, including The Brownout Murders and Two-Week Wait, both of which have been released by Scribe Publications. As a writer and researcher of texts, he is interested in how stories can be written for different media. It was to research The Brownout Murders that he was awarded a Creative Fellowship by the State Library of Victoria in 2019.Kelly Jackson is a teacher and educational writer. A graduate of the University of Melbourne with a major in Art History, she is the co-author of both The Brownout Murders and Two-Week Wait.Mara Wild lives and works in Hamburg, Germany, as a freelance illustrator and animator, mostly doing multimedia artwork. She met Luke while studying abroad in Melbourne, taking one of his classes.

‘The Jacksons, married educators and parents of two, partner with artist Wild to tell a compassionate story about the struggle to conceive based on their own experiences and interviews with other couples who have dealt with fertility issues … Wild’s loose, fluid, warmly coloured pencil art perfectly complements the script; in swooping curves and simple shapes, she draws emotive characters in domestic settings that look lived-in. Gentle and empathetic, this enters a growing trying-to-conceive graphic medicine genre, recalling Sarah Glidden’s and Lucy Knisley’s work, and offers a touchstone for any reader dealing with IVF.’