Asa Yoneda is the author behind popular suspense and mystery novels such as Premonition and Someone to Watch over You. Their stories, including Dead-End Memories, Idol, and Burning, are known for exploring darker psychological territory.
Rin Usami (born May 16, 1999, in Numazu, Shizuoka) is a Japanese novelist. Her debut novel, Kaka, won the Bungei Prize and the Mishima Yukio Prize in 2019, making her the youngest winner of the latter. Her second novel, Oshi, Moyu — published in English as Idol, Burning — won the Akutagawa Prize, one of Japan's most prestigious literary awards, when Usami was 21. The novel follows a high-school girl whose devotion to a pop idol consumes her life.