Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong | |
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 Armstrong at a book-signing in 2010 | |
| Born | Kelley L. Armstrong 14 December 1968 Sudbury, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 1999–present |
| Genre | Fantasy, horror, crime, romance |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | |
| www | |
Kelley Armstrong (born 14 December 1968)[1] is a Canadian writer, primarily of fantasy novels since 2001.
She has published thirty-one fantasy novels to date[update], thirteen in her Women of the Otherworld series, five in her Cainsville series, four 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.[2] 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 season 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.[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.
"I'm a former computer programmer, but I have escaped my corporate cubicle and hope never to return"[3]
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 (the seventh book of the Women of the Otherworld series) was a New York Times bestseller in the hardback fiction category on 20 May 2007.[4] 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.[5]
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.
Bibliography
The Women of the Otherworld Series
| Book
# |
Title | Publication
Date |
Anthology or Collection | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.5 | Beginnings | Jul 2012 | Werewolves | |
| 1 | Bitten | 2001 | Werewolves | |
| 2 | Stolen | 2002 | Werewolves | |
| 3 | Dime Store Magic | 2004 | Spellcasters
Witch Magic |
|
| 4 | Industrial Magic | 2004 | Spellcasters
Witch Magic |
|
| 4.5 | Wedding Bell Hell | Jun 2016 | Spellcasters | |
| 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 | Angels
Witches and Sorcerers Demons Werewolves Vampires Necromancers The Cabals Hellhounds
|
Final Novel |
| 13.1 | Branded | Nov 2015 | Shards & Ashes |
- All other stories may be found on the series' main article.
Otherworld Young Adult
The Nadia Stafford Series
- Exit Strategy (novel, Jul 2007)[8]
- Made to be Broken (novel, Feb 2009)
- Wild Justice (novel, late 2013)[9]
- Double Play[10] (Apr 2016)
- Perfect Victim[11] (Nov 2017)
The Darkest Powers Series
The Darkest Powers Trilogy
| Book
# |
Title | Publication
Date |
Anthology or Collection | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.4 | Dangerous | available online[12] | Narrator: Derek | |
| 0.5 | Kat | The Eternal Kiss[13] | ||
| 1 | The Summoning | Jul 2008 | ||
| 1.5 | Divided | 2009 | available online.[12] | Narrator: Derek |
| 2 | The Awakening | Apr 2009 | Narrator: Tori and Simon | |
| 2.5 | Disenchanted | |||
| 3 | The Reckoning | Apr 2010 | ||
| 3.4 | Facing Facts | Enthralled[14] | ||
| 3.5 | Hunting Kat | Kisses From Hell[15] | ebook | |
| 3.6 | Belonging | Darkest Powers Tales[16] | Narrator: Derek |
The Darkness Rising Trilogy
| Book
# |
Title | Publication
Date |
Anthology or Collection | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Gathering | Apr 2011 | ||
| 1.5 | The New Guy | Narrator: Maya | ||
| 2 | The Calling | Apr 2012 | ||
| 3 | The Rising | Apr 2013 | ||
| 3.5 | Atoning | Narrator: Chloe; eBook[17] |
Cainsville Series
- Omens (novel, Aug 2013)[18]
- Visions (novel, Aug 2014)[19]
- Deceptions (novel, Aug 2015)[20]
- Betrayals (novel, Aug 2016)[21]
- Rituals (novel, Aug 2017)[22]
- Portents: A collection of Cainsville tales[23] (Aug 2018)
- The Screams of Dragons
- Devil May Care
- Gabriel's Gargoyles
- Bad Publicity
- The Orange Cat
- Matagot
- The Lady of the Lake
- Cruel Fate(novella, Apr 2019)[24]
- Rough Justice (novella, Jun 2018)[25]
- Lost Souls (novella, Mar 2017)[26]
The Age of Legends Series
- Sea of Shadows (novel, 2014)
- Empire of Night (novel, 2015)
- Forest of Ruin (novel, 2016)
The Blackwell Pages Trilogy
Written under the alias: K. L. Armstrong. Co-authored with Melissa Marr.
- Loki's Wolves (2013)
- Odin's Ravens (May 2014)
- Thor's Serpent (May 2015)
Rockton Novels
- City of the Lost (Jan 2017)
- A Darkness Absolute (Nov 2017)
- This Fallen Prey (Nov 2018)
- Watcher in the Woods (Nov 2019)
- Alone in the Wild[27] (Feb 2020)
- A Stranger in Town (Feb 2021)
A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying
- A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying (Aug 2019)
- The Gryphon's Lair[28] (Jun 2020)
Young Adult Novels
- The Masked Truth (2015)
- The Unquiet Past (2015)
- Missing (2017)
- Aftermath (2018)
Standalone Novels
- Wherever She Goes (2019)
Anthologies and Collections
| Title | Contents | Publication Date |
|---|---|---|
| Like a Charm[29] | Plan B | 2004 |
| Witch Magic | Dime Store Magic
Industrial Magic |
2004 |
| Dying for It: Tales of Sex and Death[29] | Death Dealer | 2006 |
| Many Bloody Returns[29] | Twilight | 2007 |
| My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon[29] | Stalked | 2008 |
| Blood Lite[29] | The Ungrateful Dead | 2008 |
| Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance[29] | Paranormal Romance Blues | 2009 |
| A Fantasy Medley[29] | Zen and the Art of Vampirism | 2009 |
| The Eternal Kiss[29] | Kat | 2009 |
| By Blood We Live[29] | Twilight | 2009 |
| Tesseracts Thirteen[29] | Dead to Me | 2009 |
| Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary | A Haunted House of Her Own | 2009 |
| Campus Chills[29] | Harbinger | 2009 |
| Hellbound Hearts[29] | The Collector | 2009 |
| The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror[29] | A Haunted House of Her Own | 2010 |
| The New Dead[29] | Life Sentence | 2010 |
| Evolve[29] | Learning Curve | 2010 |
| The Bitten Word[29] | Young Bloods | 2010 |
| Kisses from Hell[29] | Hunting Kat | 2010 |
| The Living Dead 2[29] | Last Stand | 2010 |
| Blood Lite 2: Overbite[29] | Lucifer's Daughter | 2010 |
| Men of the Otherworld[30] | Infusion
Savage Ascension Kitsunegari |
Feb 2010 |
| The Urban Fantasy Anthology[29] | A Haunted House of Her Own | 2011 |
| Vampires: The Recent Undead[29] | Zen and the Art of Vampirism | 2011 |
| Tales of Dark Fantasy 2[29] | Chivalrous | 2011 |
| Evolve 2[29] | The List | 2011 |
| Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian
Speculative Writing[29] |
The List | 2011 |
| The Monster's Corner[29] | Rakshasi | 2011 |
| Enthralled[29] | Facing Facts | 2011 |
| The Year's Best Dark Fantasy
and Horror 2012[29] |
Rakshasi | 2012 |
| Blood Lite 3: Aftertaste | V Plates | 2012 |
| The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories
by Women[29] |
Dead Flowers by a Roadside | 2012 |
| Werewolves[30] | Bitten
Stolen Beginnings |
July 2012 |
| Tales of the Otherworld[30] | Rebirth
Birthright Beginnings Ghosts Expectations Wedding Bell Hell The Case of El Chupacabra Bewitched |
Nov 2012 |
| The Hunter and the Hunted | Off-Duty Angel
Stalked |
Jun 2012 |
| Shards & Ashes[29] | Branded | 2013 |
| Four Summoner's Tales[29] | Suffer the Children | 2013 |
| Spellcasters | Dime Store Magic
Industrial Magic Wedding Bell Hell Case of the Half Demon Spy |
Jun 2013 |
| Dead Man's Hand[29] | Bamboozled | 2014 |
| Out of Tune[29] | Making Music | 2014 |
| Rags & Bones[29] | New Chicago | 2014 |
| Fantasy for Good[29] | The Kitsune's Nine Tales | 2014 |
| Subterranean Press Magazine[29] | The Screams of Dragons | 2014 |
| Dark Screams: Vol 1[29] | The Price You Pay | 2014 |
| Otherworld Nights[30] | Demonology
Stalked Hidden Twilight Chivalrous Lucifer's Daughter From Russia with Love Vanishing Act |
Oct 2014 |
| Led Astray | Rakshashi
Kat A Haunted House of Her Own Learning Curve The Screams of Dragons The Kitsune's Nine Tales Last Stand Bamboozled Branded The List Young Bloods The Door Dead Flowers by a Roadside Suffer the Children The Collector Gabriel's Gargoyles Harbinger V Plates Life Sentence Plan B The Hunt Dead to Me Devil May Care |
Sep 2015 |
| Life Sentence | Life Sentence
Last Stand |
Nov 2015 |
| Imaginarium 4[29] | Bamboozled | 2015 |
| The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2015[29] | The Screams of Dragons | 2015 |
| Science Fiction World Magazine (China)[29] | The Screams of Dragons | 2015 |
| Expiration Date[29] | Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word | 2015 |
| nEvermore![29] | The Orange Cat | 2015 |
| Seize the Night[29] | We Are All Monsters Here | 2015 |
| X-Files: The Truth is Out There[29] | Dead Ringers | 2015 |
| Darkest Powers Tales[31] | Dangerous
Divided Disenchanted Facing Facts Belonging |
Mar 2015 |
| The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2016[29] | The Door | 2016 |
| The Best Horror of the Year[29] | We Are All Monsters Here | 2016 |
| Urban Allies[29] | Tailed | 2016 |
| Strangers Among Us[29] | The Culling | 2016 |
| Otherworld Secrets[30] | Life After Theft
Forbidden Angelic Zen and the Art of Vampirism The Ungrateful Dead Counterfeit Magic |
Jan 2016 |
| Otherworld Chills[30] | Brazen
Amityville Horrible Chaotic Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word Off-Duty Angel The Puppy Plan Baby Boom |
Oct 2016 |
| Urban Enemies[29] | Hounded | 2017 |
| Halloween Carnival Volume 3[29] | The Way Lost | 2017 |
| Haunted Nights[29] | Nos Galan Gaeaf | 2017 |
| The Complete Darkest Power Tales[31] | Dangerous
Divided Disenchanted Facing Facts Belonging The New Guy The Invitation Atoning |
Dec 2017 |
| Dark Screams: Volume Nine[29] | Invitation to the Game | 2018 |
| The Dame was Trouble[29] | Indispensable | 2018 |
| Phantoms: Haunting Tales from Masters of the Genre[29] | The Ghost in the Glade | 2018 |
| Hark! The Herald Angels Scream[29] | Angels & Absinthe | 2018 |
| Ten Word Tragedies[29] | The War Within | 2019 |
| Hexed[29] | Black Magic Momma | 2019 |
| Life is Short and Then You Die[29] | Floater | 2019 |
| Final Cuts[29] | Drunk Physics | 2020 |
References
- ^ a b c Bio for school projects (archive)
- ^ http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/books/
- ^ http://www.literaryrambles.com/2011/08/kelley-armstrong-interview-and-book.html
- ^ "BEST SELLERS: May 20, 2007". New York Times. 20 May 2007.
- ^ "CHILDREN'S BEST SELLERS: CHAPTER BOOKS: Sunday, May 17th 2009". New York Times. 17 May 2009.
- ^ "Wolf's Bane". Kelley Armstrong. 6 February 2020.
- ^ "Wolf's Curse". Kelley Armstrong. 6 February 2020.
- ^ Author's book summary for Exit Strategy
- ^ Author's book summary for final Stafford book Archived 8 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Double Play". Kelley Armstrong. 6 February 2020.
- ^ "Perfect Victim". Kelley Armstrong. 6 February 2020.
- ^ a b Darkest Powers Bonus Pack 1
- ^ Eternal Kiss
- ^ Facing Facts
- ^ Kisses From Hell
- ^ Darkest Powers Tales
- ^ Atoning
- ^ Kelley Armstrong – Omens: A Cainsville Novel cover art, release date and synopsis unveiled, archived from the original on 12 November 2012, retrieved 2 November 2012)
- ^ actual printed version of book
- ^ Deceptions - Kelley Armstrong, retrieved 7 January 2014
- ^ Betrayal - Kelley Armstrong, retrieved 13 November 2017
- ^ Rituals - Kelley Armstrong, retrieved 13 November 2017
- ^ "Portents". Kelley Armstrong. 6 February 2020.
- ^ "Cruel Fate". Kelley Armstrong. 6 February 2020.
- ^ "Rough Justice". Kelley Armstrong. 6 February 2020.
- ^ "Lost Souls". Kelley Armstrong. 6 February 2020.
- ^ "Alone in the Wild". Kelley Armstrong. 6 February 2020.
- ^ "The Gryphon"s Lair". Kelley Armstrong. 6 February 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf "Short Fiction". Kelley Armstrong. 6 February 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f "Otherworld Collections". Kelley Armstrong. 6 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Darkest Power Stories". Kelley Armstrong. 6 February 2020.
External links
- Official website
- Armstrong's online fiction center
- Kelley Armstrong at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Kelley Armstrong at Library of Congress, with 59 library catalogue records
- 1968 births
- Canadian fantasy writers
- Canadian horror writers
- Canadian mystery writers
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- Canadian women novelists
- Fanshawe College alumni
- Living people
- Writers from Greater Sudbury
- University of Western Ontario alumni
- Urban fantasy writers
- Women mystery writers
- Women science fiction and fantasy writers
- Women horror writers
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Canadian thriller writers