Barb and Michael Caffrey

Today I’m going to be showcasing an author and her various works.  Barb Caffrey is a science fiction/fantasy author who is also trying to keep her late husband’s work alive on Amazon.  Both of them have published works that you can find here:

Barb Caffrey

Michael Caffrey

Due to the amount of works, I’m going to give each one a small post throughout the day.  Yet, you can click on the above links to go to their Amazon Author pages and check everything out.  Now we’re going to get to know more about these authors.

Why I Continue to Keep Michael’s (and my) Vision Alive?

I wrote “To Survive the Maelstrom” based off two thousand words I found in one of my late husband’s unfinished novels. It features Command Sergeant-Major Peter Welmsley, late of the Atlantean Union (space) Marines. He lost everything at the battle of Hunin, including his fiancée, his best friend, and most of his shipmates; because of him, thirty-three souls lived out of two hundred. (He can fly anything, and when the bridge of the HMS Niobe was vaporized, he ran to the auxiliary bridge to fly the ship and run off the enemy.
He lost everything, and now must go on — even his job will change after his medical rehabilitation, as due to his meritorious service he’s about to be sent into the Navy as an officer-trainee.

And then, at the depths of his despair, he meets an empathic companion animal. A weremouse, a small being that’s just as sentient as Peter…the two of them are destined to meet and become friends. And this meeting allows Peter to finally come to terms with his grief.

The bit that Michael left behind was the actual meeting of the weremouse. Everything else was my invention. All I knew was that Peter had sustained a major injury of some sort in his past and had been put through a total epidermal regeneration (his skin was regrown while he was in a medically induced coma). So I had to figure out first why this had occurred, and then figure out what Peter was doing at home, on leave, to find his weremouse buddy.

As a widow, I empathized with Peter immensely. So I sat down, figured it out, and wrote it, in the process incorporating as many of my late husband Michael’s original 2,000 words that I could.

Why Do I Write?

Originally, I was a writer of YA urban fantasy and some science fiction. I never had any intentions to write military SF at all.

But when my late husband Michael died, and left behind two unfinished novels along with three fantasy-romance stories, I just couldn’t let them die out.

So I decided to keep all of this work alive. I vowed that if I were able to get my novel published, everything else would be published as well.

That’s the main reason why I continue to write (well, that, and the fact the stories just keep on coming and I have to write ’em down.)

Author Bios

Barb Caffrey

Barb Caffrey is a writer, editor, and musician from the Midwest. She holds two degrees, is an inveterate and omnivorous reader, and is the writer of the comic urban fantasy romance AN ELFY ON THE LOOSE and the co-writer of “To Survive the Maelstrom,” “A Dark and Stormy Night,” and “On Westmount Station” (all with late husband Michael B. Caffrey). Her short fiction has been published in GIFTS OF DARKOVER, STARS OF DARKOVER, FIRST CONTACT CAFE, HOW BEER SAVED THE WORLD, BEDLAM’S EDGE and a host of other places. She is also the editor of “Columba and the Cat” and many other books of science fiction, fantasy, and more.

She’s a huge sports fan, and follows baseball avidly. (Go, Brewers!)

Find her at Elfyverse (http://elfyverse.wordpress.com), where she blogs about all and sundry, or read her book reviews at Shiny Book Review (http://shinybookreview.com).

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Check back throughout the day to see blurbs of Barb & Michael’s Collection of Works.