Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian writer, primarily of fantasy novels since 2001.
She has published thirty-one fantasy novels, thirteen in her Women of the Otherworld series, five in her Cainsville series, six in her Rockton series, three in her Darkest Powers series, three in her Darkness Rising trilogy and three in the Age of Legends series, and three stand-alone teen thrillers. 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. Starting in 2014, a Canadian television series based on the Women of the Otherworld, called Bitten, aired for 3 seasons on Space, and SyFy.
Biography
Kelley Armstrong was born on 14 December 1968, the oldest of four siblings in a "typical middle-class family" in Sudbury, Ontario.After graduating with a degree in psychology from University of Western Ontario, Armstrong then switched to studying computer programming at Fanshawe College so she would have time to write.
I'm a former computer programmer, but I have escaped my corporate cubicle and hope never to return
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.
Her novel No Humans Involved was a New York Times bestseller in the hardback fiction category on 20 May 2007.
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.
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 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.
Works
Source:Standalone novels
- Wherever She Goes
- Every Step She Takes
- The Life She Had
- Hemlock Island
- Known to the Victim
- Finding Mr. Write
- I'll Be Waiting
- ''Writing Mr. Wrong''
Young adult
- The Masked Truth
- The Unquiet Past
- Missing
- Aftermath
- Someone Is Always Watching,
- ''A Deadly Inheritance''
The Women of the Otherworld Series
| Book | Title | Publication Date | Anthology or Collection | Comments |
| 0.5 | Beginnings | Jul 2012 | Werewolves Tales of the Otherworld | Werewolves |
| 1 | Bitten | 2001 | Werewolves Tales of the Otherworld | Werewolves |
| 2 | Stolen | 2002 | Werewolves | Werewolves |
| 3 | Dime Store Magic | 2004 | Spellcasters Witch Magic | Witches Sorcerers |
| 4 | Industrial Magic | 2004 | Spellcasters Witch Magic | Witches Sorcerers |
| 4.5 | Wedding Bell Hell | Jun 2016 | Spellcasters Tales of the Otherworld | Witches Sorcerers |
| 5 | Haunted | 2005 | Demons Demi-Gods Ghost Bounty Hunter Angels | |
| 6 | Broken | 2006 | Zombies Werewolves Demons Dimensional Portal | |
| 7 | No Humans Involved | 2007 | Necromancers Werewolves Witches and Sorcerers Demons | |
| 8 | Personal Demon | 2008 | Demons The Cabals Witches and Sorcerers Werewolves | |
| 9 | Living with the Dead | 2008 | Demons Necromancers Humans | |
| 10 | Frostbitten | 2009 | Werewolves | |
| 11 | Waking the Witch | 2010 | Witch Magic Demons Black Magic | |
| 12 | Spell Bound | 2011 | Assassins Witches and Sorcerers The Cabals Werewolves Necromancers Demons | |
| 13 | Thirteen | 2012 | Final Novel Angels Witches and Sorcerers Demons Werewolves Vampires Necromancers The Cabals Hellhounds | |
| 13.1 | Branded | Nov 2015 | Shards & Ashes |
- All other stories may be found on the series' main article.
Otherworld novellas
Otherworld Young Adult
- Wolf's Bane
- ''Wolf's Curse''
The Nadia Stafford Series
- Exit Strategy
- Made to be Broken
- Wild Justice
- Double Play
- ''Perfect Victim''
The Darkest Powers Series
The Darkest Powers Trilogy
The Darkness Rising Trilogy
Cainsville series
- Omens
- Visions
- Deceptions
- Betrayals
- Rituals
- Portents: A Collection of Cainsville Tales
- Cruel Fate
- Rough Justice
- ''Lost Souls''
The Age of Legends Series
- Sea of Shadows
- Empire of Night
- ''Forest of Ruin''
The Blackwell Pages Trilogy
- Loki's Wolves
- Odin's Ravens
- ''Thor's Serpent''
Rockton novels
- City of the Lost
- A Darkness Absolute
- This Fallen Prey
- Watcher in the Woods
- Alone in the Wild
- A Stranger in Town
- ''The Deepest of Secrets''
A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying
- A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying
- The Gryphon's Lair
- The Serpent's Fury
- ''The Final Trial''
Haven's Rock
- Murder at Haven's Rock
- ''The Boy Who Cried Bear''
A Stitch in Time