Alexandra Sellers is a Canadian writer and author of 40 contemporary romance novels and a cat language textbook considered by some to be an academic spoof.
Among books that have strongly influenced her are The Sufis by Idries Shah, The Thousand and One Nights translated by Richard Burton, and Jane Austen's novels.
Although first a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, she has studied eight foreign languages, including French, German, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, and Italian.
"[3] It has been said that "There is no better illustration of the changing and evolving sensibilities of the time, in fact, than the three novels Sellers wrote for the Silhouette Intimate Moments line -- The Real Man, The Male Chauvinist, and The Old Flame....What Sellers is really writing about, however, are the socially constructed perceptions of sexuality and gender that serve to make men the enemies of women (and sometimes the reverse), and which often hide our real values, motives, and feelings even from ourselves.
[9] Diana White, of The Boston Globe, described the book as "an elaborate, beautifully executed joke that not only pokes fun at the cat-human connection, but at language texts, too....Clearly, Sellers knows cats.