MySpacea place for friends

Or, who the hell is this guy and why did he send me a friend request?

I'm just me- M. R. Sellars aka Murv. In order to put food on the table and pay the bills, I make up lies - that is to say, I write books. Fiction. Novels to be precise. Hence the making up lies thing I mentioned. So, anyway...these lies...they take the form of The Rowan Gant Investigations. I'll let my publicist babble about that in a minute, but right now we should probably get the basics out of the way.

I came to Myspace at the urging of the aforementioned publicist. Both of them, actually. And, for reasons that don't bear exploring at this juncture, I have remained, attached as liaison to the Canadian Consulate... No... Wait... That's a line from Due South... Okay, now I've got it - I've remained because it is a great way to interact with folks and expose myself...What? No, not like that. I mean like "gain exposure" by being on the web. Geez, y'all have dirtier minds than I do.

So, anyway, on with why I am here. Myspace is just another cog in my plan for global domination. I'm not there yet, but at my current rate, in several hundred thousand years I just might make it. Keep your fingers crossed.

Now, then, here are the basics:

1) You don't know me so why did I send you a friend request? See above... I guess I'm flashing you. Wait, that's not where we want to go with this... Okay, the long and short- as it says above, I am using Myspace to gain exposure on the web. If you get a request from me and you don't already know me, it means you probably had a mutual friend, or even more likely you had more than one author with whom my work is very similar listed in your "books" section. Yes, it's a guerrilla marketing tactic, but trust me, that's about as far as it goes. I'm not going to spam you. See #2.

2) I'm an equal opportunity "marketing whore", which means other authors friend me for the same purposes I friend folks. However, I don't engage in spam (unless it comes from a can and I can put it on a sammich)... This is to say that I don't Spam (Treet, Potted Meat, Deviled Ham, et al) your inbox or your comments section, so show me the same courtesy. A link or something in your comment is all good. But a 14 paragraph description of your product with a four foot wide picture is going to get deleted, not approved. That is what the bulletins are for. And, if you do it to me more than once, I'm going to delete you. I would expect the same to happen to me if I was engaging in such activities.

3) Yes. I hope that you will look at my page then say to yourself, "Hey...Those books sound like something I'd like to read." That's why I'm here. But, see #1 and #2 for details.

4) If YOU sent ME a friend request, I accepted it, and you find a comment on your page that includes the phrase "Beware of Miranda", do NOT email me/message me/otherwise contact me asking "who is Miranda?" I am assuming that if YOU sent ME the request you have some clue about what I write, and have therefore either read the Miranda Trilogy or are aware of it. If you haven't or aren't, you are still welcome here, of course...I'm not a jackass, I just play one on TV... I will, however, hope that you'll be one of those folks who heeds #3. I realize the above "DO NOT" notice may sound harsh, but hey, if you friended me, why should I have to explain myself? (shrug) BTW - Hit refresh a few times and eventually a random Miranda background will appear...she's the one with the gams.

Okay... Now that we have THAT crap out of the way, a little more about me...When not on the road I stay home and write (which is kind of how the books happen). The rest of the time I play house-husband to my wonderful, smokin'-hot, redheaded wife, and read all manner of books with my kid. Sometimes when they are off doing wife and kid stuff I taunt the cats. But only verbally. Okay, well maybe sometimes with one of those buck ninety-five feather on a stick cat toy things too... Yeah, and a remote control toy car... And empty paper bags... And flashlights... And a Taser (I'm only kidding about the Taser...) But I only do those things when they do something stupid. Of course, since cats tend to do stupid stuff on a regular basis... Well, let's just say that much taunting occurs.

Oh, and I cook. I like to cook. Mustn't forget that...

Yeah, I know. All in all, pretty boring.

So, as promised, I am going to hand over the floor to my publicists. They like to have their say. Actually, at times I have trouble getting them to shut up...Anyhow, what follows here is my official bio. It makes me sound like a pretty cool guy. If my publicist asks, tell him you actually believe it...Better yet, use the convenient "taunt the publicist" link below to send him email and tell him what a great job he's doing making me look cool even if I'm not. Just try to be convincing so he won't be able to tell if you're lying! (Really... These emails have been confusing the hell out of him!)...For now we will just taunt Scott. He is good natured. Wendy, on the other hand, can be pretty mean, so we'll leave her out of this...

Official Bio Type Verbiage

About The Rowan Gant Investigations

The best-selling Rowan Gant Investigations are a series of suspense-thrillers which blend entertainment and education into a single hand-held package. What makes these novels unique amid the wide-ranging genre of mystery-suspense books is that the protagonist, Rowan Gant, is a practicing Witch.

Yes, protagonist, not antagonist. That means the Witch gets to be the good guy for a change.

The series follows the life of Rowan Gant, practicing Witch and self-employed computer consultant; his freelance photographer wife Felicity O’Brien; his best friend Ben Storm (a homicide detective for the city of St. Louis); and a host of other colorful—and true to life—characters. The unfortunate thing for Rowan is that when the dead choose to speak, he hears their whispers. Compelled to listen, he is left with no choice but to help, and that is when things start to happen. Character driven and filled with action, these novels are an entertaining blend of dark, police procedural thrillers with actual Pagan dynamics and concepts—And, of course, a healthy dash of Magick.

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