Tracey Morait
Tracey Morait is a self-published author from Liverpool, England, who writes multi-genre fiction for older children, teens and young adults using her own small press, K&T Mitchell. Her husband Keith designs her book covers. She has many other interests, one of which is football (real football, that is!) and is a passionate follower of Liverpool FC.
Her love of football is reflected in two of her books, Goalden Girl (her first published book, written in 2007) and Goalden Sky (2014), the story of Gemma Sutherland and the girls’ school football team she plays for. Tracey has lived with epilepsy for many years and this inspired her to write two time travel books using the condition as a theme: Epiworld (2010), telling Travis’ story, whose seizures take him from 2099 back to 2010, and Episode (2019), which is not a direct sequel, but Travis reappears to help Ali as her seizures take her back to the time of the Trojan War where she meets Helen of Troy. Other books include Big Brother (2012), a ghost/horror story about bullying, Abbie’s Rival (2008), following Abbie’s struggle with a mad crush on her teacher, and Tempting Fake (2023), told from Cherry and Adam’s viewpoints, centred around the difficult themes of catfishing and exploring sexuality. She has an eighth book in the pipeline.
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Tempting Fake (2023, Young Adult, Teen Fiction, Social Issues)
Cherry’s world becomes lonely and isolated when her mum marries Lord Milborne and she is sent away to Helton Manor, an elite boarding school for girls in the Lake District. She finds life there difficult and despite the gradual acceptance of her roommates Suki, Rahma and Tasha, she turns to the social media app Pictapost for solace and friendship, where she meets Adam.
Adam is the American-born son of a US air force captain and an English mother, who lives on an air force base in Suffolk, England. He attends the exclusive, very British Priory School and as the only American there, he is friendless and bullied. Then, one day, he connects with Cherry on Pictapost, and that’s when their problems start.
Episode (Children’s Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Time Travel, Trojan war, Helen of Troy, Mythology)
Alisha Dainton has severe epilepsy, so she’s used to having seizures. Sometimes she even has weird visions and hears strange noises. After a particularly bad episode on holiday in Cyprus, what she sees and hears makes her think she’s going mad: who is the beautiful girl with the see-through eyes, multi-coloured hair and rainbow and the half-woman, half-bird creature singing by the hotel pool, and just why has she been chosen to go back in time to ancient Sparta to help save a princess called Helen? Either Ali is having some sort of bizarre dream, or she’s about to have an amazing adventure that might change the entire story of the Trojan War.
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Goalden Girl (Teen fiction, Sport)
Gemma Sutherland isn’t happy. A year after the death of her mother, her dad has married Shelley, whose daughter, Portia, is a spoiled brat. As if that wasn’t enough they’ve moved house and Gemma has to go to Naylorsfield Comp where they don’t let girls play football like they do at her old school. Frustrated with her new life, Gemma rebels, shocks her dad by becoming a Goth and vows to drive Shelley and Portia away. She also starts a campaign to introduce girls football at school. Mr Cassidy, her PE teacher, lends his support and the other girls become interested, but Tyrone Collins, Shelley’s big headed nephew and the star of Naylorsfield’s First Eleven, will do anything to prevent the girls from training or playing in fixtures. Meanwhile, there’s a mystery surrounding Shelley and Mr Cassidy, and Gemma sees her chance of getting rid of Shelley for good.
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Goalden Sky (Teen fiction, Sport)
After her stepmother Shelley walks out, Gemma Sutherland is happy to have her dad back to herself again. Life is good: she’s playing football at Naylorsfield School and Tyrone Collins, who she used to fight with all the time, is now one of her best friends. Then Portia, Shelley’s daughter, comes back to live with the Sutherlands because her mother feels too depressed to look after her. Even though she gets on better with Portia than she used to, Gemma isn’t happy that she’s back, but Portia looks up to Gemma. She wants to be a footballer, too, and is desperate to be picked for the junior girls’ team at school. When Portia is involved in a serious accident, the Sutherlands’ world is turned upside down. Gemma, her dad and her friends do everything they can to get her interested in life and in football again. Is there a golden sky at the end of the storm for Portia?
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Big Brother (Teen/YA fiction, Ghost, Horror, Science Fiction)
When his dad leaves for a job in New York, Ash is left to cope with his drug-addicted, alcoholic mother Rhonda, who decides to move away from the life she hates in Bristol to her home town of Liverpool, taking Ash away from his school, his mates, and his gran. Not only does Ash have problems at home with a harassing, demanding mother, he becomes the easy target of a gang of bullies at his new school, the Jessop crew, because he talks with a different accent and wears a hearing aid. Then one day Ash meets the mysterious Big Brother, who wants to help Ash seek revenge on the Jessops, but it seems Big Brother has an agenda of his own. Just why is he so keen to help Ash destroy his enemies, and where did he come from? The pair strike up a partnership Ash is very soon desperate to break; the problem is Big Brother refuses to let him go.
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Epiworld (Teen/YA fiction, Science Fiction, Time Travel)
Britain 2099. All human diseases have been eradicated by genetic cleansing, but there are still people who are ‘unclean’ and locked away in institutions. Travis is one of them, until one day Dr Alexander helps him to escape to a world where nothing makes sense. Travis has powerful seizures which take him and his new friend Demi on a quest through time to seek and destroy Chase, the man he hates. Along the way he has to deal with shocks, surprises, traumas, and death, until at last he ends up on a beach, where his fate will finally be decided.
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Abbie’s Rival (Children’s fiction, Family, Friendships, Young Romance)
Abbie Palmer is ecstatic when she receives an e-mail from her beautiful French ‘e-mate’ Colette telling her she wants to visit in the summer holidays. Then Abbie realises Colette will find out she lied about her background, so she tries to put her off with a message saying she is going away for the summer. Unfortunately, Colette doesn’t get Abbie’s message. She turns up unexpectedly and that’s when Abbie’s problems start. First of all, Colette turns out to be an absolute stunner. She looks more like eighteen than sixteen and Abbie feels young and fat in comparison. Secondly, Abbie has fallen in love with the gorgeous Richard Farnham, a young teaching student who is going to do his placement at Abbie’s school, but Richard falls for Colette instead, even though Colette claims to be in love with someone else. Abbie is heartbroken, but tries not to let them know how she feels. Can she ever make Richard notice her, or will he be always out of reach?
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