Thomas Cardin is a digital artist and animator living in Southern California with his wife, Cathy, and his son, Roger. He also shares his home with two larger-than-life Maine Coons and a long-haired mixed-breed cat. Besides computer graphics he has been known to paint the odd rock and dabble in ceramics. His inspirations for storytelling have always been present, in art, books, movies, and role playing games. He has built many worlds and breathed life into many characters around the gaming table, but writing a novel was always something to start working on tomorrow or next week.