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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]
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]
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.
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:
Speculative fiction, Mythology, Science fiction, Horror fiction, Folklore
Science fiction, Literature, Historical fiction, Sherlock Holmes, Detective fiction
Sociology, Social psychology, Memory, Experimental psychology, Psychology
Ontario, Northern Ontario, Statistics Canada, Canada, Laurentian University
Dracula, Stephen King, Metaphor, Gothic fiction, Bram Stoker
Speculative fiction, Speculative fiction/Bestsellers/Archives/2012, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Jayne Ann Krentz, Karen Marie Moning
Kelley Armstrong, Canada, Horror fiction, HarperCollins, English language
Bantam Spectra, Kelley Armstrong, Canada, Stolen (Armstrong novel), Industrial Magic (novel)
Speculative fiction, Speculative fiction/Upcoming/Archives/2012, Adam Blade, Rainbow Magic, Daisy Meadows
Smallville, Family Guy, Toronto, Ontario, Oliver Trevena