Clive Barker
I was at home sick yesterday and I was going through my stacks of books by my couch because I was a tad bit bored…. I noticed the book by David Armstrong – a photo grouping of *hot* naked men – that Clive Barker (his husband) signed for me the last time Clive was here. Clive Barker is an author of many, many books including Galilee, Imajica, The Thief of Always and the Abarat books (when are the others due out??). Oh, he was also the mastermind behind the Hellraiser movies.
My memory of the first Abarat book signing in Milwaukee, at the Harry W. Schwartz Bookstores, saw me helping Clive out by ushering people in and standing guard. Seems that many of his fans are, well, fanatical. He likes having people around him just in case. He had one fan come up to him and cut his arm during a signing once – not Clive’s arm, but their own arm. So, I stood by.
David Armstrong, his husband, came up to me during the signing and asked me if there were any ‘cool’ bars in town and I explained that Milwaukee really didn’t have a leather scene. He was surprised that I would think that he and Clive wanted to go to a place like that, with a *wink*. There was some downtime during the signing and David came up to me again. This time he asked me if I would be interested in doing a photo shoot right then in there in the limo in the alley… naked, for his next book.
Rare Flesh, David Armstrong
Ok, David Armstrong is a hot black man. I would be naked in his limo. I would be in a book.
I said, “no”.
I still kick myself for that, but there ya go. I have the book by my couch and there is a photo shoot of some guy in a limo. I always think to myself… ‘That could have been me’.
But I digress…..
After the 2nd Abarat book came out, Clive came again, this time without David and I got to talk to him a bit before the signing in the basement of one of our stores. He is actually a great person to talk to about writing and art. Oh, and his British accent helps too….
Here’s a photo of David, Josette (the publicist and all around neat gal!) and myself from the event several years ago. I found this on Clive’s web site: http://www.clivebarker.com/
David and Clive are both hotties, huh? …. did I make the right choice about the book? Who knows…
*sighs*
Happy Friday!
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