User:Gravygrubber/Frank Graves

Frank Graves is an author and film producer raised in South Africa and is the great grandson of Sir Thomas Maclear named as one of the foremost royal astronomers at the Cape of Good Hope. He is also distantly related to Robert Graves the renowned writer and poet who was a large inspiration for Frank to eventually take up writing. Robert Graves encouraged Frank to start writing with several correspondence letters and stories while still a boy at school.

A major work published by Marshall Cavendish in 1992 was The Ancestral Trail and was 'split' into two halves, of 26 issues each, making a total of 52 issues in all with consecutive page and issue numbers. Frank Graves also holds the Copyright as can be seen on all published work of the Ancestral Trail.

The first half of the trilogy of work, was initially published throughout 1993 and takes place within a mythological Ancestral World and describes a boy’s struggle to restore good to the world. After the initial international run which sold over 30 million copies worldwide, the second half of that series was then created. The second half based on the third part of the trilogy, published in 1994, takes place in the totally different Cyber Dimension, and is about the boy’s attempt to find a way back to his own world. This work has become cultish with various parts continally being traded globally from with in places like Ebay. Each issue centered on an adventure against a particular adversary and each issue ended on a cliffhanger. Graves completed the full trilogy of works the first in the past, the second part being Long Ago & Far Away and takes place in the present millenium and the third The Myth-Maker, being in the future in Cyberspace and published in 1994. This work is due to be published in similar format sometime in 2011. The Ancestral Trail group of books was primarily aimed at the younger audience but has collected a wide following and traded constantly on places like Ebay. Further completed works include "The Culling", "Masterbug", "Family von Frank" & "Apes in Capes". Other projects include his film work including the original idea about hydrogen fuel which then became a film called Chain Reaction starring Morgan Freeman and Keanu Reeves. "The Beastery" written and filmed in 2001.