Kelley Armstrong

Kelley Armstrong (born 14 December 1968) 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.

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. Also, her YA novel The Awakening was a No. 1 The 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 Standalone novels Wherever She Goes (2019) Every Step She Takes (2020) The Life She Had (2022) (as K.L. Armstrong) Hemlock Island (2023) Known to the Victim (2024) (as K.L. Armstrong) Finding Mr. Write (2024) I'll Be Waiting (2024) Writing Mr. Wrong (2025)

Young adult The Masked Truth (2015) The Unquiet Past (2016) Missing (2017) Aftermath (2018) Someone Is Always Watching (2023), A Deadly Inheritance (2026)

The Women of the Otherworld Series The Women of the Otherworld books feature werewolves, witches, necromancers, sorcerers, and vampires struggling to fit as "normal" in today's world. The series also includes novellas and short stories, published online (and one in an anthology) Witch Magic 42004Industrial MagicSpellcasters

All other stories may be found on the series' main article.

Otherworld novellas TitlePublication

Otherworld Young Adult

Wolf's Bane (Oct 2019) Wolf's Curse (Mar 2020)

The Nadia Stafford Series

Exit Strategy (novel, Jul 2007) Made to be Broken (novel, Feb 2009) Wild Justice (novel, late 2013) Double Play (Apr 2016) Perfect Victim (Nov 2017)

The Darkest Powers Series

The Darkest Powers Trilogy Enthralled

Darkest Power TalesNarrator: Derek

The Darkness Rising Trilogy

Cainsville series Omens (novel, Aug 2013) Visions (novel, Aug 2014) Deceptions (novel, Aug 2015) Betrayals (novel, Aug 2016) Rituals (novel, Aug 2017) Portents: A Collection of Cainsville Tales (collection, Aug 2018) Cruel Fate (novella, Apr 2019) Rough Justice (novella, Jun 2018) Lost Souls (novella, Mar 2017)

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 (Feb 2020) A Stranger in Town (Feb 2021) The Deepest of Secrets (Feb 2022)

A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying

A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying (Aug 2019) The Gryphon's Lair (Jun 2020) The Serpent's Fury (Jun 2021) The Final Trial (Jun 2022)

Haven's Rock

Murder at Haven's Rock (Feb 2023) The Boy Who Cried Bear (Feb 2024)

A Stitch in Time Book TitlePublication

Cursed Luck Book TitlePublication

A Rip Through Time

Series in collaboration Series Title#TitleIn Collaboration WithCommentsAngelVolume 5AftermathJoss WhedonGraphic Novel

Anthologies and collections TitleContentsPublication DateLike a Charm Plan B2004Witch MagicDime Store Magic

Infusion

Savage

Ascension

Kitsunegari Feb 2010 The Urban Fantasy Anthology

and Horror 2012 Dangerous

Divided

Disenchanted

Facing Facts

Belonging Mar 2015 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 2016Strangers Among Us The Screams of Dragons Devil May Care

Gabriel's Gargoyles

Bad Publicity

The Orange Cat

Matagot

The Lady of the LakeAug 2018'Ten Word Tragedies

Young Adult 2011 Forest of Reading Red Maple Award Fiction

Paranormal Fantasy

Paranormal Fantasy

Fiction

YA Novel

Paranormal Fantasy

Middle Grade & Children's 2014 Forest of Reading Red Maple Award Fiction

YA Novel

YA Novel 2015 Monica Hughes Award

Fiction

Novel

Grades 10–12

YA Novel

YA Novel

Novel 2021 RITA Award Long Speculative Romance

YA Novel