Fernando da Casa de Cantos (Cartagena, 1967) has a degree in law from the University of Murcia. He is a practising lawyer, working in different fields, a businessman, also in different fields, and doesn't reject the idea of future business ventures. As a writer, his first published novel, The Mona Lisa is a Fake, earned excellent reviews and high sales, and was a finalist for the 2016 Murcia Book Award. The author has also published collective anthologies including 40-Something Quills, The World in Fifty Words, A Brief Time, The Good, If Brief, Fifty-Something Words, Words That Flew, and Dancing Words. In 2015 he won the first MAPFRE national short story competition. He writes regularly in his blog Business Opportunities.