Showing posts with label Barb Caffrey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barb Caffrey. Show all posts

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Saturday's Blurbs featuring books by Barb Caffrey #MFRWauthor #fantasy #Science fiction #Military



First, the Elfy duology, with book 1 being AN ELFY ON THE LOOSE (only ninety-nine cents at Barnes and Noble and Amazon!)

https://www.amazon.com/Elfy-Loose-Barb-Caffrey-ebook/dp/B00JMSPR5Y -- Amazon US
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/an-elfy-on-the-loose-barb-caffrey/1119190597 -- Barnes and Noble
https://www.omnilit.com/product-anelfyontheloose-1935230-234.html -- OmniLit/AllRomance

Blurb:

One Elfy for an entire planet?

He's supposed to be the Watcher for his people, the representative on Earth from his dimension, but the small being known to his enemies as "Jonny-Wonny" wakes up to big trouble -- trapped in a bizarre house in Knightsville, California with humans straight out of reality TV. Jon knows that something has gone dreadfully wrong -- he's starving, lonely and dressed in funny clothes.

Enter the couple's ten-year-old diminutive daughter, who is "Not Daisy!" but is brilliant, sweet...and using high level magic with ease. She's also desperately in need of a friend. Insisting her name is really Sarah, and christening him Bruno, his new friend asks him how they're going to get out of there.

The only thing that comes to mind is for Bruno to ask his teacher, Roberto the Wise, for help. But Roberto's attempt at help only enmeshes all three of them further in a web of deceit and treachery.

Bruno finds out that, unfortunately, most of what he thought he knew about himself was very wrong...and much of what Sarah knows about herself is also wrong, including her age.

Worst of all, a Dark Elf is on the scene and is intent on corrupting the local Humans, including Sarah's parents.

New names, new locations, a new mission--Bruno is going to get to the bottom of all the craziness, and Sarah will be there for him every step of the way.

Watch out, universe -- an Elfy is on the loose!


and A LITTLE ELFY IN BIG TROUBLE, book 2 of the Elfy duology...

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Elfy-Big-Trouble-ebook/dp/B018B4699W -- Amazon US
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-little-elfy-in-big-trouble-barb-caffrey/1123003283?ean=2940157950910 -- Barnes and Noble.com
https://www.omnilit.com/product-alittleelfyinbigtrouble-1935228-234.html -- OmniLit/AllRomance

Blurb:

Young Bruno the Elfy and Sarah, his mostly-human teenage girlfriend, are in deep trouble. Bruno's Elfy mentor Roberto the Wise is about to be sacrificed by a Dark Elf, and Sarah's parents have decided to help the Elf rather than the Elfy. Things look bleak and are getting worse by the minute, but Bruno and Sarah have a number of allies -- human, Elfy, and ghosts -- that the Dark Elf can't possibly expect.

Can young love, desperation, and great unexpected power win out despite it all?


And for something completely different, read my military SF novella, "To Survive the Maelstrom," co-written with my late husband Michael B. Caffrey and available only at Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Survive-Maelstrom-Atlantean-Union-Welmsley-ebook/dp/B0105JDW6Y

Blurb:

Command Sergeant-Major Sir Peter Welmsley of the Atlantean Union has lost everything he holds dear. He wonders why he lived, when so many others died at Hunin — including his fiancĂ©e, Lydia, and his best friend Chet.

Into his life comes Grasshunter’s Cub, an empathic, sentient creature known to those on Heligoland as a “weremouse.”

Weremice are known for their ability to help their bond-mates. But how can this young weremouse find a way to bring Peter back from the brink of despair and start living again?

Note for readers: I wrote this around 2K words my late husband, Michael B. Caffrey, left behind after his untimely passing in 2004. I wrote most of this in 2014, and plan to write more about Peter Welmsley and his adventures in the not-so-distant future.








http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/an-elfy-on-the-loose-barb-caffrey/1119190597 -- Barnes and Noble

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Friday, May 13, 2016

Friday - Who She Was Before featurning Barb Caffrey #MFRWauthor


1. What were you in your life before you became a writer? Did this influence your writing?

## I started out my life as a musician. I believe the rhythm, cadence, harmony and melodies of music all have inspired me to write cohesive, thoughtful stories...and they certainly inspired my poetry, early on in life.



2 Are you genre specific or general? Why? I don't mean genres like romance, mystery, fantasy etc. There are many subgenres of the above.

## I don't think of myself as genre-specific, no. While I'm known more for my funny fantasy (or possibly for my short stories in STARS OF DARKOVER, GIFTS OF DARKOVER and the upcoming REALMS OF DARKOVER), I also write military SF, paranormal romance, and have been known to write other sorts of stories as well. I also spent several years writing opinions and for the arts and entertainment section of my college newspapers before that...so I tend to see myself as a writer, period.


3. Did your reading choices have anything to do with your choice of a genre or genres?

## I have always enjoyed reading fantasy and science fiction; I remember reading most of the late, great Andre Norton's stories before I hit age 15. (These would all now be called young adult, or YA, stories.) She wrote all sorts of things; most were fantasy, some were science fiction, some were F&SF hybrids, some were historicals, some were romances...the only thing in common with all of Miss Norton's stories were that they kept me turning the pages. (They were cracking good, in other words.) So it's possible that I picked up on the idea that I could write anything I wanted from her, and maybe from Anne McCaffrey later, and possibly even Lois McMaster Bujold (whose books, regardless of genre, are must-reads in this household).

##Even as a full adult, though, I have continued to read whatever struck my fancy. For research, I read hard science and history. For fun, I read books by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Stephanie Osborn, Rosemary Edghill and of course Bujold...though as I'm now a writer and editor myself, I always learn something whenever I read anything from these amazing authors.




5. What are you working on now?

## CHANGING FACES, a transgender fantasy romance due out sometime during the summer of 2016.


6. Where can we find you?

## blog: elfyverse.wordpress.com
book review site: shinybookreviews.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/barb.caffrey.1
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BarbCaffrey
Google-Plus: https://plus.google.com/101403408003727584589/about