Kelley Armstrong
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Kelley Armstrong |
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Occupation(s): | novelist |
Nationality: | Canadian |
Writing period: | 2001 - present |
Genre(s): | Fantasy, Horror |
Website: | Official website |
Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian fantasy author.
She has published six novels and one novella to date, all set in the Women of the Otherworld series. Armstrong has confirmed contracts with her American, British and Canadian publishers for novels seven through ten.
She has also written several serial novellas and short stories which are available free from her website.
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[edit] Biography
Kelly Armstrong is married with three children; the family lives in Rural Ontario. Born in 1968 and the oldest of 4 other siblings Kelley has always been writing. Coming from a "Typical middle class family", writing was more of a hobby then a career. However after she graduated with a degree in psychology, she then realized she wouldn't have enough time for her true love , writing. So Kelley then switched to studying computer programming at Fanshawe so that she would have time to write. Education complete Kelley married and had her first child while keeping a normal 9-5 job. She never stopped writing however and sold her first novel BITTEN in 1999, which was realesed in 2001. Following her first success she has written a total of 6 books, a number of novellas and now recently her first crime novel. Kelley a now a full time writer with two more kids under her belt, is a true success and motivation for unpublished writers everywhere.
[edit] Published works
- The Women of the Otherworld series
- Bitten (2001)
- Stolen (2002)
- Dime Store Magic (2004)
- Industrial Magic (2004)
- Witch Magic(SFBC Omnibus Edition) (2004)
- Haunted (2005)
- Chaotic (novella) in the anthology Dates from Hell (2006)
- Broken (2006)
- No Humans Involved (2007) - Title to be confirmed
- Other Works
- Exit Strategy (2007)
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Bibliography on SciFan
- KA Otherworld Role-playing Site
- Kelley Armstrong at FantasticFiction.co.uk
[edit] Interviews
- Interview at Flames Rising (November 2005)