Graham Marks is the author of Radio Radio, a book about a group of friends in their late teens and early twenties who set up a pirate radio station. It is the first book in a three book deal he has with the publisher Bloomsbury.

As a child Graham spent the first six years of his life following his father around who was an RAF pilot, including a three-year stint in Canada. The start of a love affair with North America that’s never stopped.

He was sent to boarding school at the age of 13, an experience he hated, and then went to Harrow School of Art to study Information Graphics. He graduated three years later, having had two quite well-reviewed books of poetry published by Paul Piech’s Taurus Press.

Graham then went into partnership with a friend running a company producing children’s non-fiction books. He says that 'It was a huge amount of fun until I woke up one day and realized that I’d become a boss and had actually hired someone as a Creative Director. This was my job, the job I really liked.' So he left and became a freelance Design Consultant to various children’s publishers. He also wrote his first children’s novel, The Finding of Stoby Binder, for Hodder & Stoughton.

Graham then attempted to launch the UK’s first adult comic strip magazine. He went on to do Stuff & Nonsense, a quarterly kid’s magazine for the Children’s Book Foundation and then took on the job of producing Owl Magazine, a kid’s natural history publication that originated in Canada. It was backed by a successful TV programme and published here by the TVTimes.

Next Graham became an writer. He began by writing comic strip scripts for Marvel UK (Motormouth, The Genetix), radio scripts for BBC Radio 5 (Wiggly Park) and TV and film tie-in books for Boxtree (Captain Scarlet, Judge Dredd) and BBC Worldwide (Wallace and Gromit, 5th Musketeer). He's also written for Maxim, Midweek, Playboy South Africa and SHE.

At about the same time that Graham began working for Publishing News as their freelance Children’s Editor he also started writing for David Fickling at Scholastic. He wrote a sci-fi trilogy and a time-slip novel for him, then two boys adventure novels for Transworld. His last book came out in 1997, although he continued writing for PN, as well as working as a full-time Creative Director in a mid-size ad agency in Covent Garden.

Profile of Graham Marks by Jubilee Books. Last updated February 2003.