Clark, David Aaron 1963(?)-

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CLARK, David Aaron 1963(?)-

PERSONAL:

Born c. 1963. Education: Rutgers University, B.A..

ADDRESSES:

Agent—c/o Author Mail, NBM Publishing, 558 8th Ave., Suite 1202, New York, NY 10018.

CAREER:

Author. Adult film star, writer, director, and producer.

WRITINGS:

The Wet Forever, Masquerade Books (New York, NY), 1996.

Into the Black, Titan Books, 1996.

The Marquis de Sade's Juliette: Vengeance on the Lord, Masquerade Books (New York, NY), 1996.

(Editor, with Tristan Taormino) Ritual Sex, Rhinoceros (New York, NY), 1996.

Sister Radiance, Masquerade Books (New York, NY), 1996.

True Blood, photography by Charles Gatewood, Last Gasp (San Francisco, CA), 1997.

(With Miran Kim) The Fallen, illustrations by Kim, NBM Publishing (New York, NY), 1999.

Contributor to, and editor of, several magazines.

SIDELIGHTS:

David Aaron Clark started his career as a journalist working for the Dow Jones news service, but he began writing for adult magazines in 1988, which led him into the adult film industry. Clark's foray into the world of adult entertainment led him to become an underground novelist. His first novel, The Wet Forever, is a violent story regarding the sale of a sexually explicit videotape involving a U.S. senator. When a potential buyer of the video tries to double-cross the seller, a murderous tale ensues. A Publishers Weekly contributor noted that the novel had a "straightforward" plot filled with "ubiquitous" violence.

In The Fallen, Clark teams up with illustrator Miran Kim to produce an adult-oriented, full-color narrative of a story featuring vampires disguised as normal people who hunt for innocent victims. The first of a projected three-volume series, The Fallen includes a wide array of characters, including tattoo artist John Savony, who is able to see through the vampires' attempt to conceal their true nature, and the young, naive artist Rena Mojica, whom the vampires pursue. The novel takes place primarily in the gothic rock scene of Manhattan's Lower East Side, and includes the violent and sexual undertones of bondage and domination. A contributor to Publishers Weekly called Clark's writing "only sporadically lyrical" but praised Kim's artistry as a "beautiful depiction of submission and violence." Stephen Weiner, writing in Library Journal, noted that the story line was not "especially new" but concluded that it was a "beautiful, intriguing book."