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With all the talk about the new Dark Shadows movie, I started wondering whatever happened to David Selby, the actor that played Quentin Collins on the television show. Thanks to the magic of the Internet, Selby's website was easy to find and I was surprised to find that the much older and wiser Selby is very much concerned about the world around him.
On his blog (December 18, 2011), Selby says he has just watched a segment of 60 Minutes about people in Cleveland with their homes underwater. "They owe more than the houses are worth," Selby says. "I simply am at a loss for how such people are being treated. It makes me so angry, and yet, you feel so helpless to help them, but we MUST! All the tears will not help them. All the words won't help."
Selby's first novel, "My Shadowed Past: Peace, Protests and Dark Shadows" recounts his years in the "turbulent and vital period in the 1960s when America was experiencing profound social and political changes. In the midst of the turmoil and tension was a daily afternoon escape," Selby writes, "an opportunity to become drawn into a Gothic world of fantasy, suspense and romance on the ABC-TV serial Dark Shadows."
In "The Blue Door," Selby's second novel, he introduces "haint blue." According to legend in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, the color is a very special shade that wards off evil spirits and curses. Sally Hanks, a committed environmentalist, provides that protection for her mountaintop against the forces of King Coal and the ruthlessness and greed of the coal company owners and politicians who fight her and her supporters in their quest to blast the top third of the mountains off to mine coal. According to Selby, this story is based on actual people and events.
Selby's books are definitely going to be added to my reading wish list. He used to inspire me with his riveting good looks and stunning blue eyes. Nowadays, I'm swept away by his overwhelming compassion and giant mind (Sigh).
http://www.davidselby.com
With all the talk about the new Dark Shadows movie, I started wondering whatever happened to David Selby, the actor that played Quentin Collins on the television show. Thanks to the magic of the Internet, Selby's website was easy to find and I was surprised to find that the much older and wiser Selby is very much concerned about the world around him.
On his blog (December 18, 2011), Selby says he has just watched a segment of 60 Minutes about people in Cleveland with their homes underwater. "They owe more than the houses are worth," Selby says. "I simply am at a loss for how such people are being treated. It makes me so angry, and yet, you feel so helpless to help them, but we MUST! All the tears will not help them. All the words won't help."
Selby's first novel, "My Shadowed Past: Peace, Protests and Dark Shadows" recounts his years in the "turbulent and vital period in the 1960s when America was experiencing profound social and political changes. In the midst of the turmoil and tension was a daily afternoon escape," Selby writes, "an opportunity to become drawn into a Gothic world of fantasy, suspense and romance on the ABC-TV serial Dark Shadows."
In "The Blue Door," Selby's second novel, he introduces "haint blue." According to legend in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, the color is a very special shade that wards off evil spirits and curses. Sally Hanks, a committed environmentalist, provides that protection for her mountaintop against the forces of King Coal and the ruthlessness and greed of the coal company owners and politicians who fight her and her supporters in their quest to blast the top third of the mountains off to mine coal. According to Selby, this story is based on actual people and events.
Selby's books are definitely going to be added to my reading wish list. He used to inspire me with his riveting good looks and stunning blue eyes. Nowadays, I'm swept away by his overwhelming compassion and giant mind (Sigh).
http://www.davidselby.com