Michael Scott Curnes is an award-winning Cascadian fiction novelist living in Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA. He is a member of The Writers’ Union of Canada. To Pay Paul (Summer 2022) marks the 10th fiction novel written by this author and his fifth to be published. Considered a sequel to his Green Book Award-winning novel, For the Love of Mother (2011), this latest work marks a return to the eco-thriller genre and a reoccurring character: the mightily dammed Columbia River.