David grew up in Armidale NSW, on the New England Tableland, not far from the magical gorge country edging eastern Australia’s Great Dividing Range. He has worked in a variety of jobs including manual work: rabbit catcher, crane slings-man and railway sleeper-layer before attending University of Queensland as a mature-age student, then settling into a sedate career as a Queensland Government Auditor. As an auditor, David travelled extensively around Queensland, developing an affection for the people and places in the remote parts of the State, in particular the Torres Strait Islands.

He was always fascinated in the power of speech and has been a Toastmaster for over 20 years. However, only after his public service career (writing factual but stodgy reports) did he expand his interest in storytelling. The first addition to his story-telling at Toastmasters was through theatre: acting and directing plays. More recently he has ventured into the written word

His first anthology is based on stories from his Toastmasters speeches and now, his debut novel explores his own youth in the New England Tablelands country with what did happen back then and what might have happened in those mysterious places.