Pseudonymous Bosch

[11] It also may play off the fictional Los Angeles detective, Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, also named after the artist, created by the author Michael Connelly, and who has appeared in several of his novels starting in 1992.

[citation needed] Prior to becoming a novelist, Simon worked as a screenwriter, including as a staff writer on the Nickelodeon series Rocket Power.

He started writing his first novel, The Name of this Book Is Secret, as a series of letters to a fourth-grader.

The New York Times bestselling series has sold millions of copies and has been translated into many languages.

Bosch elaborated in an interview with Wired stating that "it is a kind of half-written, guided mystery.

[14] In 2021, Bosch published The Anti-Book, his first book under his real name Raphael Simon.