Hee! Also she was a prostitute. Which I'm not, incidently.

When I was starting out in XF fandom, I wanted a pseud that was unusual and had a sci-fi flavour, but wasn't XF-specific. So I turned to Niven since he's a master at creating unusual names.

If I had to do it all over again, I might pick something easier to spell. But maybe not. I love my pseud.