Kelley Armstrong

Kelley Armstrong
Born	Kelley L. Armstrong (1968-12-14) 14 December 1968 Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Pen name	Kelley Armstrong
Occupation	Novelist
Language	English language
Nationality	Canadian
Period	1999–present
Genre	Fantasy, horror, crime, romance
Children	3
Website
www.kelleyarmstrong.com

Kelley Armstrong (born 14 December 1968)^[1] is a Canadian writer, primarily of fantasy novels since 2001.

She has published twenty-one fantasy novels, thirteen to date in her Women of the Otherworld series, two in her Cainsville series, six in her Darkest Powers series and one in the Age of Legends series. She has also published three middle-grade fantasy novels in the Blackwell Pages Trilogy, with co-author Melissa Marr. As well, she is the author of three crime novels, the Nadia Stafford trilogy. She has also written several serial novellas and short stories for the Otherworld series, some of which are available free from her website.^[2]

Biography

Kelley Armstrong was born on 14 December 1968, the oldest of four siblings in a "typical middle-class family" in Sudbury, Ontario.^[1]

After graduating with a degree in psychology from The University of Western Ontario, Armstrong then switched to studying computer programming at Fanshawe College so she would have time to write.

Her first novel Bitten was sold in 1999, and it was released in 2001. Following her first success she has written a total of 13 novels and a number of novellas in the world of the Women of the Otherworld series, and her first crime novel, Exit Strategy, was released July 2007. Armstrong has been a full-time writer and parent since 2002.^[1]

Her novel No Humans Involved was a New York Times bestseller in the hardback fiction category on 20 May 2007.^[3] Also, her YA novel The Awakening was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller in the Children's Chapter books category on 17 May 2009.^[4]

Description of work

Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series is part of a recently popular contemporary fantasy subgenre of the fantasy genre that superimposes supernatural characters upon a backdrop of contemporary North American life, with strong romantic elements. Within that subgenre, she is notable for including many types of supernatural characters, including witches, sorcerers, werewolves, necromancers, ghosts, shamans, demons and vampires, rather than limiting herself primarily to a single type of supernatural creature. Most of her works have a mystery genre plot, with leading characters investigating some novel situation or unsolved question.

In the Otherworld novels, most supernatural powers are either hereditary, or arise from the act of an existing supernatural of the same type. The Otherworld, while it has overarching conflicts and plotlines that span multiple novels is, thus far, not an epic battle between good and evil. The novels are largely episodic with the continuing plotlines primarily involving the developing lives of the main characters.

Her contemporary fantasy writings share genre similarities with writers Charlaine Harris, Laurell K Hamilton and Kim Harrison.

Kelley Armstrong signing autographs for a fan at a book signing.

Bibliography

The Women of the Otherworld series

1. Bitten (2001)
2. Stolen (2002)
3. Dime Store Magic (2004)
4. Industrial Magic (2004)
5. Haunted (2005)
6. Broken (2006)
7. No Humans Involved (2007)
8. Personal Demon (2008)
9. Living with the Dead (2008)
10. Frostbitten (2009)
11. Waking the Witch (2010)
12. Spell Bound (2011)
13. Thirteen (2012; final novel)

• Witch Magic (SFBC Omnibus Edition), released in 2004 in the UK, was a republication of Dime Store Magic and Industrial Magic in one volume.

Complete Works in this Universe

Below is a complete, in-universe chronological list of novels, online work, short stories, novellas and contributions to anthologies, based on the timeline given on Kelley Armstrong's official website.^[5]

Stories in the "Online release" column may be found on one of two pages on her website. If marked as "Short story", they are on her "Free Online Fiction"^[6] page. If marked otherwise, they are in the "Otherworld Stories" section of her "Books" page.^[7]

In addition, the following seven stories exist, but their position in the timeline has not been identified:

The Nadia Stafford series

1. Exit Strategy (novel, published July 2007)^[8]
2. Made to be Broken (novel, published February 2009)
3. Wild Justice (novel, published late 2013)^[9]

The Darkest Powers series

The Darkest Powers trilogy

1. The Summoning (novel, published July 2008)
2. The Awakening (novel, published April 2009)
3. The Reckoning (novel, published April 2010)

• Also contains the short stories Dangerous, and Divided with Derek as the narrator, which are available online.
• A short story called Disenchanted is narrated by Tori and a very small portion in Simon's view.

The Darkness Rising trilogy

1. The Gathering (novel, published 12 April 2011)
2. The Calling (novel, published 10 April 2012)
3. The Rising (novel, published 2 April 2013)

Cainsville series

1. Omens (novel, published 20 August 2013)^[10]
2. Visions (novel, published 19 August 2014)^[11]
3. Deceptions (novel, published August 2015)^[12]

The Age of Legends series

1. Sea of Shadows (novel, published 2014)
2. Empire of Night (novel, published 2015)
3. Forest of Ruin (novel, to be published 2016)

The Blackwell Pages Trilogy

1. Loki's Wolves (as K. L. Armstrong, with Melissa Marr) (2013)
2. Odin's Ravens (as K. L. Armstrong, with Melissa Marr) (May 2014)
3. Thor's Serpent (as K. L. Armstrong, with Melissa Marr) (May 2015)

Other short stories

• Plan B (in the collection Like a Charm)
• Death Dealer (in the collection Dying for It: Tales of Sex and Death)
• Kat (in the collection The Eternal Kiss)
• Harbinger (in the collection Campus Chills)
• A Haunted House of Her Own (in Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary)
• Devil May Care (in Led Astray: The Best of Kelley Armstrong) (2015)
• The Screams of Dragons (in Led Astray: The Best of Kelley Armstrong) (2015)

Kelley Armstrong Collections

1. Men of the Otherworld (2010)
2. Tales of the Otherworld (2012)
3. Otherworld Nights (2014)
4. Darkest Powers Tales (2015)
5. Led Astray: The Best of Kelley Armstrong (multi-series collection, September 2015)
6. Otherworld Secrets (January 2016)

References

External links

• Official website
• Armstrong's online fiction center
• Kelley Armstrong at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database