If I say just "McGuire", specifically when talking about genre, it's not a bad guess to assume I meant the 5-time Hugo nominated (one time winning, if not as a novelist) author seanan_mcguire, rather than some other McGuire. :)

The four of her books I read in the last month, btw, were the second two Newsflesh novels (published as Mira Grant), the most recent October book, Ashes of Honor, and the excellent Discount Armageddon (the first in a new series).