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* '''''No Humans Involved''''', narrator Jaime Vegas (novel, released 2007)
* '''''No Humans Involved''''', narrator Jaime Vegas (novel, released 2007)
* ''[http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/mNovella.htm Framed],'' narrator Nick Sorrentino (projected to be the last annual novella<ref>[http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/aNovellas.htm Information on Online Fiction]</ref>) (novella, released 2007)
* ''[http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/mNovella.htm Framed],'' narrator Nick Sorrentino (projected to be the last annual novella<ref>[http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/aNovellas.htm Information on Online Fiction]</ref>) (novella, released 2007)
* '''Personal Demon''', narrator Hope Adams (2008)
, released 2008)
* '''Personal Demon''', narrator Hope Adams
* '''Living with the Dead''', narrator Robyn Peltier (2008)
* '''Living with the Dead''', (2008)
* '''''Kitsunegari''''', narrator Jeremy Danvers (novella, published 2009 in ''Men of the Otherworld'')
* '''''Kitsunegari''''', narrator Jeremy Danvers (novella, published 2009 in ''Men of the Otherworld'')
* '''''Paranormal Romance Blues'''''', (short story published 2009 in "The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance")
* '''''Paranormal Romance Blues'''''', (short story published 2009 in "The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance")
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=== The Nadia Stafford Series ===
=== The Nadia Stafford Series ===
# ''[[Exit Strategy (novel)|Exit Strategy]]'' (released 1 July 2007)<ref name="Exit">[http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/aExit.htm Author's book summary for ''Exit Strategy'']</ref>
# ''Exit Strategy'' (released 1 July 2007)<ref name="Exit">[http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/aExit.htm Author's book summary for ''Exit Strategy'']</ref>
# ''[[Made to be Broken]]'' (Released in February 2009)
# ''Made to be Broken'' (Released in February 2009)


=== Short stories in anthologies ===
=== Short stories in anthologies ===
* ''[[Plan B (short story)|Plan B]]'' (in the collection ''[[Like a Charm]]'')
* ''Plan B'' (in the collection ''Like a Charm'')
* ''[[Death Dealer (short story)|Death Dealer]]'' (in the collection ''[[Dying for It: Tales of Sex and Death]]'')
* ''Death Dealer'' (in the collection ''Dying for It: Tales of Sex and Death'')
* ''[[Chaotic (novella)|Chaotic]]'' (in the collection ''[[Dates from Hell]]'')
* ''Chaotic'' (in the collection ''Dates from Hell'')
* ''Twilight'' (in the collection ''[[Many Bloody Returns]]'')
* ''Twilight'' (in the collection ''Many Bloody Returns'')
* ''[[Stalked (short story)|Stalked]]'' (in the collection ''[[My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon]]'')
* ''Stalked'' (in the collection ''[[My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon]]'')
* ''The Ungrateful Dead'' (in the collection ''[[Blood Lite]]'')
* ''The Ungrateful Dead'' (in the collection ''Blood Lite'')
* ''Zen and the Art of Vampirism'' (in the collection ''[[A Fantasy Medley]]'')
* ''Zen and the Art of Vampirism'' (in the collection ''A Fantasy Medley'')
* ''Paranormal Romance Blues'' (in the collection ''[[The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance]]'')
* ''Paranormal Romance Blues'' (in the collection ''The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance'')
* ''Kat'' (in the collection ''[[The Eternal Kiss]]'')
* ''Kat'' (in the collection ''The Eternal Kiss'')
* ''Learning Curve'' (in the collection ''[[Evolve]]'')
* ''Learning Curve'' (in the collection ''Evolve'')


=== The Darkest Powers Series ===
=== The Darkest Powers Series ===
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# ''[[The Awakening (Armstrong novel)|The Awakening]]'' (April 28, 2009).
# ''[[The Awakening (Armstrong novel)|The Awakening]]'' (April 28, 2009).
# ''[[The Reckoning (novel)|The Reckoning]]'' (April 6, 2010).
# ''[[The Reckoning (novel)|The Reckoning]]'' (April 6, 2010).
# ''The Gathering'' (announced at end of ''The Reckoning'')


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*Also contains the short story ''Dangerous'', with Derek as the narrator, which is available online.

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Also contains the short story ''Dangerous'', which is available online.


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 05:45, 3 June 2010

Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong
Occupationwriter
NationalityCanadian
Period2001–present
GenreFantasy, Horror, Crime fiction
Website
http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/

Kelley Armstrong (born 1968)[1] is a Canadian author, primarily of fantasy works.

She has published thirteen fantasy novels to date, most set in the world of theWomen of the Otherworld series, one crime fiction novel, and the Darkest Powers Trilogy. Armstrong has confirmed contracts with her American, British and Canadian publishers for novels seven through ten in this series. She has also written several serial novellas and short stories for the Otherworld series, which are available free from her website.

Armstrong's first crime novel was released in July 2007. A sequel to that novel was released in 2009.

Biography

Kelley Armstrong is married with three children; the family lives in rural Ontario.[2] She was born in 1968, the oldest of four siblings in a "typical middle class family" in Ontario.[1] After graduating with a degree in psychology, 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 nine 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.[2]

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

Bibliography

The Women of the Otherworld series

The Novels

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

The complete series, including online works

Note: the bold titles denote works which have been published in print. Also note that this list is in within-series chronological order.
  • "Rebirth," narrator Aaron (short story, released 2005)
  • "Infusion," narrator Malcolm Danvers (short story, released 2005; to be published in Men of the Otherworld in Jan 2009)
  • Savage, narrator Clayton Danvers (novella, released 2003; to be published in Men of the Otherworld in Jan 2009)
  • Ascension, narrator Clayton Danvers (novella, released 2003; to be published in Men of the Otherworld in Jan 2009)
  • "Demonology," narrator Talia Lyndsay (short story, released 2005)
  • "Birthright," narrator Logan Jonsen (short story, released 2005)
  • Beginnings, narrators Clayton Danvers and Elena Michaels (novella, released 2004)
  • Becoming, graphic novella (novella, 2007—being updated monthly)
  • "The Case of the Half-Demon Spy," (short story, released 2005)
  • "Expectations," (short story, released 2005)
  • "Truth and Consequences," narrator Elena Michaels (short story, first published February 1996 in Lost Worlds magazine and later re-released online)
  • "Territorial," narrator Karl Marsten (short story, released 2005)
  • Bitten, narrator Elena Michaels (novel, published 2001)
  • "Ghosts," narrator Jeremy Danvers (short story, released 2005)
  • "Escape," narrator Eve Levine (short story, released 2005)
  • Stolen, narrator Elena Michaels (novel, published 2002)
  • Dime Store Magic, narrator Paige Winterbourne (novel, published 2004)
  • Industrial Magic, narrator Paige Winterbourne (novel, published 2004)
  • "Wedding Bell Hell," narrator Paige Winterbourne (short story, released 2005)
  • Haunted, narrator Eve Levine (novel, published 2005)
  • "Adventurer," narrator Kenneth Okalik (short story, published 2005)
  • Chaotic, narrator Hope Adams (novella, published 2006 in Dates from Hell anthology)
  • The Case of El Chupacabra, narrator Lucas Cortez (novella, released 2006)
  • "Bargain," narrator Xavier (short story, released 2005)
  • Broken, narrator Elena Michaels (novel, released 2006)
  • No Humans Involved, narrator Jaime Vegas (novel, released 2007)
  • Framed, narrator Nick Sorrentino (projected to be the last annual novella[5]) (novella, released 2007)
  • Personal Demon, narrator Hope Adams (2008)
  • Living with the Dead, narrator Robyn Peltier (2008)
  • Kitsunegari, narrator Jeremy Danvers (novella, published 2009 in Men of the Otherworld)
  • Paranormal Romance Blues', (short story published 2009 in "The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance")
  • Zen and the Art of Vampirism, narrator Zoe Takano (novella, published 2008 in A Fantasy Medley anthology)
  • Frostbitten, narrator Elena Michaels (novel, published 2009)
  • Angelic, narrator Eve Levine (novella, to be released December 2009)
  • Waking the Witch, narrator Savannah Levine (novel, to be released August 2010)

The Nadia Stafford Series

  1. Exit Strategy (released 1 July 2007)[6]
  2. Made to be Broken (Released in February 2009)

Short stories in anthologies

  • Plan B (in the collection Like a Charm)
  • Death Dealer (in the collection Dying for It: Tales of Sex and Death)
  • Chaotic (in the collection Dates from Hell)
  • Twilight (in the collection Many Bloody Returns)
  • Stalked (in the collection My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon)
  • The Ungrateful Dead (in the collection Blood Lite)
  • Zen and the Art of Vampirism (in the collection A Fantasy Medley)
  • Paranormal Romance Blues (in the collection The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance)
  • Kat (in the collection The Eternal Kiss)
  • Learning Curve (in the collection Evolve)

The Darkest Powers Series

  1. The Summoning (July 1, 2008).[7]
  2. The Awakening (April 28, 2009).
  3. The Reckoning (April 6, 2010).
  4. The Gathering (announced at end of The Reckoning)
  • Also contains the short story Dangerous, with Derek as the narrator, which is available online.

References

  1. ^ a b Bio for school projects
  2. ^ a b Author bio
  3. ^ "BEST SELLERS: May 20, 2007". New York Times. May 20, 2007.
  4. ^ "CHILDREN'S BEST SELLERS: CHAPTER BOOKS: Sunday, May 17th 2009". New York Times. May 17, 2009.
  5. ^ Information on Online Fiction
  6. ^ Author's book summary for Exit Strategy
  7. ^ .Darkest Powers Trilogy

Interviews

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