I was thinking about this because I have started reading some of Neil Gaiman’s books due to pals I know from another forum. All the fangirls there are madly in love with him, it seems, and not just for his writing. They think he’s very attractive as well. Seeing a few pictures, I concur that he’s not at all bad, and there’s one picture on his website of him out in the snow–rowr!
However, I cannot think of any other authors that I would consider attractive. Part of that is that I simply haven’t seen many pictures of authors to begin with, since I never really thought about this. The merit of their books is not important at the moment; I just want to know which authors, if any, people think are kind of hot.
I was under the impression that for non-established writers, looks mattered, in the sense that they were part of the marketing presentation for the book. Just as it’s sort of true that succesful pop musicians have to be good-looking, I think it’s also sort of true that authors have to be reasonably good looking.
Frank Portman. (He’s the one without the metallic boobs.)
I met him at a book signing at Book Expo–I’m only halfway through his book (King Dork), but I did think he was really cute. If it weren’t totally skeevey, I would so have hit on him.
