Stranger than fiction

One of the main characters in Drive to Nowhere is Captain Epic Kindred, rock star extraordinaire and father of Eeare Kindred, the feisty teen heroine.

Now, I did start a MySpace page about Eeare and mentioned that she is a fictitious character. But I've since received communication from people who are interested in hearing Captain Epic's music "but the only things I found on Google have been references to the book". My friend Sean who's written a music industry satire called University of Death (the name of the rock band) also has MySpace people contacting him thinking the band is real (he has created a music track for them, so at least there is some kind of plausibility, but still).

All this is highly ironic as there are actual real artists out there who would pay to get complete strangers to listen to their music. But I've got a fictitious character with no back catalogue that people are willing to look up on the internet. How postmodern!