According to her website, the name 'Claudia' was inspired by I, Claudius, which she's stated is a favorite of hers.

She admitted she had no particular reason for choosing to use a pseudonym she just thought it would be fun to do so.

Pen Name: Her real name is Amy Vincent.

Love Across Battlelines: In the Constellation trilogy, Noemi Vidal is a teen soldier fighting for her colony's independence and falls in love with Abel, a member of Earth's robotic army.

Hypothetical Casting: She often does this with her Star Wars novels (for example, she imagines Senator Ransolm Casterfo as Tom Hiddleston and Leia's First Love Kier Domadi as Rami Malek).

Historical Fantasy: The 2011 standalone novel Fateful is set on the RMS Titanic.with werewolves.

Gothic Horror: Her early novels (in particular the Evernight series) are strongly influenced by this genre.

Genre Shift: Started out writing paranormal romance novels, before ending up writing Star Wars novels and a Superman graphic novel, although she had started writing sci-fi before that and still generally incorporates similar themes and tones in her books.

Lots of Gray's novels do involve mysteries, though this one is more of a mundane Cozy Mystery.

Creator's Oddball: The majority of her work falls easily under the Speculative Fiction umbrella, with the notable exception of The Murder of Mr Wickham, in which Jane Austen characters find themselves in an Agatha Christie style murder mystery.

Immediately after finishing the Firebird trilogy, she began writing the Constellation series while simultaneously writing for the Star Wars EU and working on other projects.

Attention Deficit Creator Disorder: She tends to have multiple projects going on at once part way through the Spellcaster series she began writing the Firebird trilogy, and she started writing Star Wars novels around the same time.

Tropes associated with the creator and her works:

The Haunted Mansion: Storm & Shade (2023).

House of El: graphic novel series illustrated by Eric Zawadzki.

The First Midnight Spell (2013): Prequel novella.

Vacations from Hell, story 'I Don't Like Your Girlfriend' (2009).

Love Stories with Bite: anthology series both of Gray's stories are set in the Evernight universe.

From a Certain Point of View, chapter 'Master and Apprentice' (2017).Works of Claudia Gray with their own pages include: Her best known works include the Evernight series and a number of Star Wars novels and short stories set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, including prequels to The Force Awakens and a prequel focusing on Princess Leia prior A New Hope. Claudia Gray (real name Amy Vincent) is an American author specializing mainly in young adult fiction, in particular paranormal romance and science fiction.

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