'Mira Grant' is actually my pseudonym. And 'Seanan' is pronounced 'SHAWN-in.'
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky' by Lesley Nneka Arimah blew my mind.
I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
Sometimes I aid into the confusion by having my character's name be my name.
I loved 'Belzhar' by Meg Wolitzer.
There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by Harold Robbins. The lead character's name was Dax. Anyone that's roughly my age that's named Dax is named from that book.
Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
Jim Rollins is the king of the weird science action genre.
I've written 26 books and novellas as Molly O'Keefe. I moved through three different Harlequin lines and into single-title romance with Bantam writing under that name. Fun fact: It's not my name, and it's not even one I picked.