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Barb Caffrey is a writer, editor, musician and composer from Wisconsin. 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, its sequel A LITTLE ELFY IN BIG TROUBLE, and a wholly unrelated LGBTQ-friendly fantasy romance with spiritual overtones, CHANGING FACES. (The latter has also been called "Freaky Friday" on acid. She'll take that as compliment.)

Her stories and poems have appeared (or will appear) in many places, including several Darkover anthologies (the most recent being CITADELS OF DARKOVER), HOW BEER SAVED THE WORLD, FANTASTIC SCHOOLS HOLS, and many more.

She's the widow of Michael B. Caffrey (1958-2004), and has vowed that Michael's work -- his words -- will live on as long as there are people to read them. It's because of this vow that she's republished Michael's Adventures of Joey Maverick series, which currently consists of "A Dark and Stormy Night" and "On Westmount Station." (More stories will be forthcoming -- promise.)

She follows politics, loves sports, watches far too much reality TV and finds the judicial reality TV show "Hot Bench" cathartic. What all this says about her is anyone's guess. Find her at Elfyverse (AKA "Barb Caffrey's Blog") for discussions of all and sundry, or visit her at Facebook . . . she promises she won't bite. (Much.)

Michael B. Caffrey (1958-2004) was many things -- a writer. An editor. An artist. A contracts administrator . . . but if you asked him what was most important, he'd say none of those things.

Instead, he'd say being Barb Caffrey's husband is all he'd ever aspired to be, granted with a twinkle in his eye and a whole lot of self-deprecating mockery besides.

In his lifetime, Michael sold only one story, this a co-written effort with his wife, Barb, in BEDLAM'S EDGE (edited by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill). After his untimely passing, other stories were sold to the Written Word Online Magazine and to e-Quill Publishing.

Two of those stories have been re-released as independent e-books here at Amazon, "A Dark and Stormy Night" and "On Westmount Station." These are in his Joey Maverick universe, which takes place in the far-future Atlantean Union, and are works of military science fiction. (His wife, Barb, finished up the second story, and edited and smoothed out the first. But they are substantially Michael's efforts.)

Michael wrote other things, too, including humorous fantasy, alternate history/fantasy, straight science fiction and more. But his first love was for military science fiction, which is why these stories have been the first to be re-released.

Michael was an effervescent presence, at once worldly wise and unassuming. He was a student of comparative religion, called himself a "Zen Sufi Pagan" and lived in San Francisco, California most of his adult life. He also loved to watch both professional baseball (Go, Giants!) and football (where the Joe Montana trade both irked and amused him, considering Steve Montana was waiting in the wings), was a witty and entertaining conversationalist, and was the type of guy who'd do anything for anyone without complaint.

Michael had many interests. He loved to read, especially sailing adventures (past, present and future), and thought of ships in space as just another type of sailing ship, albeit with more technology. He was a person of principle who believed the unexamined life was not worth living -- but while you were examining your life, why not have as much fun as possible while you were going about all that dull and dreary stuff?

If you're interested in reading more about Michael B. Caffrey, please stop by Barb Caffrey's Blog anytime as she often discusses Michael's influence on her life and career, and does her best to keep his spirit alive and well.