After a successful career in marketing and finance, Michael Barnes Selvin began writing historical fiction. His novel, The Telemachia, published in 2007, won an award from Independent Publisher in historical/military fiction in 2008. He has completed a second novel, The Heaven Walker, the Story of the Master of Cabestany. He was introduced to the artwork of the Master of Cabestany by close friends in southern France and became impassioned with the work of the Master, visiting all the major sites of his sculptures. The novel will be published in French in 2012. The author has graduate degrees in both English and business. He and his wife live in Berkeley, California, and, for many years have spent their summers on the French Mediterranean, in the village of Banyuls-sur-Mer.