Meet Michael
MICHAEL LUCKER is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and educator with fifteen years experience writing for major studios and fifteen years experience lecturing at major universities.
He began his career writing cable commercials while earning his undergraduate degree in broadcasting and film at Boston University’s College of Communication. Soon after he landed in Los Angeles working in production for ABC, NBC, CBS, and HBO before taking a job as assistant to Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment on the feature films Always, Arachnophobia, Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade, and Jurassic Park.
Michael went on to work in creative affairs at Hollywood Pictures on movies Crimson Tide, Terminal Velocity, Straight Talk, and Taking Care of Business before embarking on a career as a screenwriter for Paramount, Disney, DreamWorks, Fox, and Universal on films Vampire in Brooklyn, Home on The Range, Mulan II, LIlo & Stitch II, Emperor’s New Groove II, and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, which was nominated for an Academy Award as best animated feature.
Soon an opportunity to help launch a new network for Turner Entertainment brought him home to Atlanta. He went on to work in television creating series for Animal Planet, Travel Channel, Cartoon Network, Discovery, History, TBS, TNT, TLC, OWN, DIY, A&E, and MSNBC. He also consulted on indie films Fear of Rain, Signing Day, Good Intentions., and On a Wing and a Prayer.
Recently, Michael was hired to adapt the award-winning children’s book series Freeing Freddie by FTM Media, write the feature thriller Project 33 for Monument Media, pen the feature drama Fathom & Faith for Three Ring Pictures, develop the limited series A Nation on Fire for ShoulderHill Entertainment, and serve as script doctor on the animated series Scout Elf Squad for The Lumistella Company.
A renowned instructor in screenwriting, Michael serves as senior lecturer at the University of North Georgia, mentor in Reinhardt University’s Creative Writing MFA program, and founder of Screenwriter School. In 2017 the Georgia Film Academy hired him to create a high school screenwriting curriculum which has since been taught to more than 15,000 students in the state.
His debut mystery novel — Rule One — was published by www.wordeee.com in July of 2025 wherever books are sold.
He is now working on Rule Two.
About the Book
Ever been to a doctor who didn’t listen? Didn’t care? Didn’t help?
Here’s a thriller to teach them a lesson.
DENT McCREARY is a mess. Dumped by his ex, missing her daughter, and living in a roach-infested apartment, he uses Jack Daniels and Pepto Bismol to get by. It’s no way for one of the country’s leading FBI profilers to live. But alas, Dent has issues. When a renowned doctor is found dead in a heap in a dryer in Los Angeles, Dent and a rookie partner are brought in to investigate. A few tours in special forces prepared Dent for the dirty work. It didn’t prepare him for navigating the nation’s healthcare system to stop a madman from killing doctors coast to coast.
Written with the irreverent wit of Elmore Leonard and Kurt Vonnegut, the mind-bending mystery leads readers on a wild ride through America’s back alleys and country roads to a heart-wrenching conclusion as Dent fights to save the life of the only person he ever really loved.
