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My Single – If You Just Stay – Has Just Hit Number One on SubmitHub
I submitted my latest single, If You Just Stay, into SubmitHub’s Hot or Not charts, and I’m very happy to say that it made it to number one in both the three-day and seven-day charts.
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Just Released a New Single – If You Just Stay
Release date: 3rd July 2026 In the early 2010s, I wrote a song about a breakup where I wondered if we had just one more day together, would things have been different. I composed the music on an acoustic guitar, sang it and entered it into some songwriting competitions. I didn’t win any of them,…
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Just Released a New Single – Silence
Release date: 5th June 2026 A long time ago I wrote a poem called Silence, which you can view here. It was inspired by my time at school being bullied. It is about how bullying can force you into silence, and about how it’s important to break free of that silence because that’s how you…
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Proof Copies of My Upcoming Debut Novel Have Just Arrived – Scorched Earth: The Library of Power
Things are starting to get real for the upcoming release of my debut novel, Scorched Earth: The Library of Power, which I will be releasing later in the year. The two proof copies arrived on Sunday, and getting to hold them in my hand and look through them was an amazing feeling. Knowing that I…
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Just Got the Front Cover Image for My Upcoming Debut Novel – Scorched Earth: The Library of Power
Exciting times ahead. I just got the cover image for my upcoming debut novel, Scorched Earth: The Library of Power. I will be self publishing in the summer/fall, date to be confirmed, so watch this space! The novel has been a long time in the making. I have always dreamt of releasing a novel, and…
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How My Journey As a Professional Writer Began
I started my journey as a professional writer back in 2008. I was studying Finance & Investment Management at Northumbria University, and as part of that I Set up an investment blog called Gray’s Investment Blog where I would write up company reports, detail my investment journey, and offer my thoughts and opinions on the…
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How A Systematic Failure By The NHS And The Lockdown Closure Of The NHS Caused Me to Lose Complete Use of My Hands
In 2020, I had no use of my left hand and had only extremely limited use of my right hand. To cut a long story short on how this happened, in 2008, I suffered a partial tear in the scapholunate ligament of my right wrist.I was supposed to have a full repair job done on…
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The Story of My First Blog – Gray’s Investment Blog
Gray’s Investment Blog was my first foray into the world of professional writing. I set it up by chance in 2008 while studying a degree in finance and investment management at Northumbria University. I needed some inspiration to keep me researching the stock markets, and this became that inspiration. I would post all my research…
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Why I First Started Training in the Gym – and Why I Love Bodybuilding
I’m a big fan of bodybuilding, I suspect it was Arnold Schwarzenegger films that got me into it along with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sylvester Stallone. Needless to say, I’m a big fan of 80s and 90s action films. But also I’m a big wrestling fan, and grew up watching Shawn Michaels, Stone Cold Steve…
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I Had a Go at Being a TV and Film Extra - Here’s What It Was Like
Over the years, I have acted in a number of things, from short films to theatre productions, to music videos, to TV series and even to feature films. That sounds much better than it is. The short films were local amateur projects, some even of my own making; the theatre productions were local and small-scale; the…
David Graham
Sci-fi, fantasy and thriller writer, blogger, photographer, lyricist, entrepreneur, and all round creator of things
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“Writing is the greatest invention of all time; without it, we would still be living in the Stone Age.”
– David Graham