Graham Davidson

Born in Sydney during the early sixties, Graham Davidson wanted to be an artist from the time he could talk. This led to him leaving school at fifteen to pursue a career in animation and advertising, where he used his creative talents to develop a broad skill set including traditional animation, special effects, computer animation, editing, directing and writing.

As the years progressed, Graham found himself gaining more and more satisfaction out of the writing of backgrounds for broader creative proposals, leading to a burning ambition to write a series of science fiction novels.

The concept for "Fire in the Vein"s was born in the early 2000s, as the backstory for a proposed animated televsion series, The Protectors. The series never eventuated. but in 2014, Graham took the backstory and used it as the basis for the first 130,000 word draft of Fire in the Veins: Genesis of the End. Realising his first novel, need work before it was truly ready to put out to the public, Graham slipped it into the drawer, pulling it out periodically to rework.

In the meantime, he wrote a junior novel (Rise of the Shadow People), the first three books of his middle-grade/YA series, the Witches of the Crossworlds, and wrote a memoir for a client, Recipes for Living.

During that time he also established an early childhood literacy initiative, Storytime Lane and founding a writing and arts festive, IF Maitland, which he directed for four years.

In 2001, he started Rack and Rune Publishing, where he helps aspiring authors take control of their publishing journey.

He's also had several story stories published and has illustrated over half a dozen books, for children and adults.

In 2024, when he'd completed Recipes for Living, he decided it was time to pull his passion project, Fire in the Veins:Genesis of the End, out of the drawer and apply the additional skills and writing expertise he'd developed in the 10 years since the first draft. The result is a sci-fi thriller that seems incredibly apt for our times as it take you on a wild ride through the early stages of a civilisation's collapse.