Paul Austin Ardoin is the USA TODAY Bestselling Author of The Fenway Stevenson Mysteries and the Murders of Substance series. His stories and essays have appeared in the anthologies The Paths We Tread, 12 Shots, Bottomfish, and Sweet Fancy Moses. His network security articles have been published in California Computer News and European Communications. Paul has a B.A. in Creative Writing from University of California, Santa Barbara, and he makes his home in the Sacramento area with his wife, two teenagers, and a menagerie of animals.