Alex Segura is the senior vice president of sales and marketing at Oni Press, and the author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall and the acclaimed Pete Fernandez Mystery series. He has also written comic books, most notably the superhero noir The Black Ghost, the YA music series The Archies, and the “Archie Meets” collection of crossovers. In Secret Identity: A Novel (Flatiron Books), it’s 1975, and the comic book industry is struggling but Carmen Valdez doesn’t care. She’s an assistant at Triumph Comics – it’s not Marvel or DC, but it doesn’t matter. Carmen is tantalizingly close to fulfilling her dream of writing a superhero book when one of the Triumph writers enlists her help to create a new character, “The Lethal Lynx,” Triumph’s first female hero. But her colleague is acting strangely and asks her to keep her involvement a secret. Then he’s found dead, and all of their scripts have been turned into the publisher without her name. Carmen wants to find out what happened to her colleague and hang on to her piece of the Lynx. But she finds that the secrets and resentments among the eccentrics who write comics for a living are a tangled web.
