Graham Davidson, is a professional creative with over 40 years’ experience. He has won dozens of national and international industry awards for his work in advertising, particularly as a director and animation designer.
The backstory of an unsuccessful pitch for a children’s television series ended up morphing into his first novel (finally reworked and published in February 2026).
A short time after this he was published for the first time in a short story anthology, Wish Upon a Southern Star. He then wrote his first junior novel, Rise of the Shadow People.
While writing that work, he signed up with Hunter Writers Centre (HWC) and joined their children’s writing group. At his first meeting he met Emily S Smith who had also only recently joined HWC.
A year or so later, they came up with the idea of creating Storytime Lane, an early childhood literacy initiative that involved the creation of picture books, storytelling videos, a comprehensive website with downloadable activities, and stage shows that they perform at festivals and libraries.
By this stage Graham had completed two more books aimed at the middle-grade and young adult readers, in The Witches of the Cross-Worlds series (the third book is in its final draft and will be released soon). In early 2020 he founded and directed the inaugural IF Maitland Indie Festival, a celebration of independent publishing in all its forms.
IF Maitland soon expanded to include an arts festival, film screenings and stage shows. During the four years that Graham ran the festival he experienced the joy of watching ideas that people had pitched at the original festival launched as completed books in subsequent years.
In response to ongoing approaches from people looking for assistance with getting their books into print he started Rack and Rune Publishing, a business geared towards making publishing accessible to all who dream of sharing their stories with the world.
In 2022, Graham was contracted to ghostwrite a memoir by one of his clients. The book took two years to complete and involved half a dozen week-long trips to Melbourne interviewing the client, her family and her friends. It was published by Ginninderra Press in 2025.