Stephen P. Ryder is the founder and editor of the Puzzle Baron network of websites (PuzzleBaron.com). These sites focus primarily on textual games and puzzles, including acrostics, cryptograms, logic puzzles, drop quotes, Sudoku, patchwords and many more. The Puzzle Baron network serves more than six million visitors annually, along with an extremely dedicated user-base of more than 50,000 registered players who compete against each other for record scores and times. Stephen published his first complete puzzle book through Sterling Publishing in November of 2008, entitled Notable Quotable Cryptograms. His puzzles also regularly appear in the periodical Brain Games (Publications International) and other books by the same publisher. Author home: Orlando, Florida.