THE LONELY AUSTRALIAN OF THE ASIAN
NIGHT
Gregory Pakis
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GENRE: Travel/Crime
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BLURB:
Hookers
and hawkers.
Mosques
and mosquitos.
Paul
has had enough of Southeast Asia.
He's
only here ‘cos it's cheap.
He's
on the run from police after leaving Australia.
No,
that place wasn't much better either.
Well,
it was when he was young.
When
his life was full of promise. An up-and-coming boxer. And he had friends. And
fun.
Then
a bit of bad luck later and he found himself on the run in outback Australia.
Paranoid. Hiding from shadows. The heat.
The dust. The sweat.
Next
stop, Southeast Asia.
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EXCERPT
He wondered again if they would come for him tonight. The
hotel porter and counter staff were looking at him suspiciously when he last
went out for food. Or was he just looking at them weird? If they came for him
tonight, for which crime would they come? Would it be Interpol? What he did to
the man in Bali might warrant that. He didn’t feel too bad about that one
because he was only some fag who came onto him after seeing him in Kuta one
night when Paul was hungry and standing alone in the darkness. The man asked if
he was ok and invited him back to his house and made dinner. Paul knew his old
coach would be ashamed that he had beaten the man, not to mention taken his
money. He saw his coach in his mind again - this time holding pads for him in
the ring. If only Paul had made more money from boxing, then he would never
have had to come to Asia. He never would
have been standing hungry and lost and standing with street dogs and feeling
like a failure. That was the worst moment in Paul’s life and he didn’t want to
remember it again.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Gregory Pakis is an Australian author, film-maker, actor and wacky
vlogger.
He has written the short story, The Lonely Australian of the Asian
Night; the soon to be released horror-suspense novellas, The Regressor and He.,
and Memoir of a Suburban Hoe-Bo, which is partly an account of when he lived
out of a van for ten years in Melbourne.
Gregory Pakis is also the writer / director of the feature films,
The Garth Method (2005) and The Joe Manifesto (2013), which have won national
and international awards and been distributed through Accent Entertainment,
Label, Vanguard Cinema.
Gregory's more informal video projects are the feature
documentaries, Garth Goes Hitch-Hiking (2007) and Garth Lives in a Van (2011)
which have screened at film festivals in Australia.
More recently, he has created the comedy series, suBURPieS and his
Wacky Vlog which can found on his socials.
Gregory has been featured in articles in newspapers, The Age, The
Herald Sun, Beat Magazine, Inpress, FILMINK, and the Neos Kosmos. He has been
interviewed on radio by the ABC, 3RRR, SYN FM, 3CR.
THE LONELY AUSTRALIAN OF THE ASIAN NIGHT - LINKS
AMAZON SALES LINK
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B01N36UWYK
BOOK TRAILER
https://youtu.be/ZE0JH1EdGfc?si=-zroVl6rV8Sd3OyH
AUTHOR CHAT TO CAMERA VIDEO
https://youtu.be/uTd0-Y_FT7Y?si=dz0NzUnpoYUYoNmw
WEB PAGE (WITH MEDIA KIT)
https://www.gpak.org/books/thelonelyaustralianoftheasiannight
CONTACT
GREGORY PAKIS
info@gpak.org
SITES
BOOKS https://www.gpak.org/
FILMS https://guerillafilmnite.com/
SOCIALS
Instagram /
https://www.instagram.com/gregorypakis/
Tik Tok /
https://www.tiktok.com/@gregorypakis
Facebook /
https://www.facebook.com/gpakis
X / https://x.com/GPakis
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Thankyou for hosting today. It's hard to know where readers and viewers are but I always assume they not in Australia or Asia, so hopefully they will get some insight into these unique geographies :)
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