Sara Paretsky once had V.I. Warshawski, when asked what the V.I. stood for, say, "My first and middle names." I loved it.

Okay, okay. My first and middle names are Shira Judith. If you run into me, don't use them. They're not top secret enough that I'll be impressed. (Shira, btw, is SHEER-a, not SHY-ra. And Rozan is ro-ZAN, not RO-sen.)