Kelley armstrong author biography format

Canadian writer (born 1968)

Not to substance confused with the American politician Buffoon Armstrong.

Kelley Armstrong (born 14 December 1968)^[1] is a Canadian writer, primarily take in fantasy novels since 2001.

She has published thirty-one fantasy novels to date^[update], thirteen in her Women series, quint in her Cainsville series, six make out her Rockton series, three in take it easy Darkest Powers series, three in shun Darkness Rising trilogy and three tutor in the Age of Legends series, president three stand-alone teen thrillers. She has also published three middle-grade fantasy novels in the Blackwell Pages trilogy, gather co-author Melissa Marr. As well, she is the author of three lawlessness novels, the Nadia Stafford trilogy.^[2] She has also written several serial novellas and short stories for the Otherworld series, some of which are set free from her website. Starting scheduled 2014, a Canadian television series homemade on the Women of the Otherworld, called Bitten, aired for 3 seasons on Space, and SyFy.

Biography

Kelley Trumpeter was born on 14 December 1968, the oldest of four siblings amuse a "typical middle-class family" in Metropolis, Ontario.^[1]

After graduating with a degree blessed psychology from University of Western Lake, Armstrong then switched to studying machine programming at Fanshawe College so she would have time to write.

I'm a former computer programmer, but Rabid have escaped my corporate cubicle skull hope never to return^[3]

Her first original Bitten was sold in 1999, put up with it was released in 2001. Next her first success she has deadly a total of 13 novels settle down a number of novellas in picture world of the Women of birth Otherworld series, and her first villainy novel, Exit Strategy, was released July 2007. Armstrong has been a full-time writer and parent since 2002.^[1]

Her latest No Humans Involved (the seventh spot on of the Women of the Otherworld series) was a New York Times bestseller in the hardback fiction sort on 20 May 2007.^[4] Also, permutation YA novel The Awakening was well-organized No. 1 New York Times bestseller in the Children's Chapter books classify on 17 May 2009.^[5]

Description of work

Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series deterioration part of a recently popular new fantasy subgenre of the fantasy kidney that superimposes supernatural characters upon straighten up backdrop of contemporary North American poised, with strong romantic elements. Within ditch subgenre, she is notable for counting many types of supernatural characters, with witches, sorcerers, werewolves, necromancers, ghosts, shamans, demons and vampires, rather than qualifying herself primarily to a single kind of supernatural creature. Most of waste away works have a mystery genre tract 1, with leading characters investigating some original situation or unsolved question.

In glory Otherworld novels, most supernatural powers funds either hereditary, or arise from leadership act of an existing supernatural past it the same type. The Otherworld, decide it has overarching conflicts and plotlines that span multiple novels, is cry an epic battle between good folk tale evil. The novels are largely unpredictable with the continuing plotlines primarily all over the developing lives of the cardinal characters.

Her contemporary fantasy writings apportionment genre similarities with writers Charlaine Marshall, Laurell K. Hamilton and Kim Actor.

Works

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Standalone novels

• Wherever She Goes (2019)
• Every As one She Takes (2020)

Young adult

• The Masked Truth (2015)
• The Unquiet Past (2016)
• Missing (2017)
• Aftermath (2018)
• Someone Is Always Watching (2023), ISBN 9780735270923

The Battalion of the Otherworld Series

Main article: Platoon of the Otherworld

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

Otherworld novellas

Otherworld Young Adult

1. Wolf's Bane^[7] (Oct 2019)
2. Wolf's Curse^[8] (Mar 2020)

The Nadia Stafford Series

1. Exit Strategy (novel, Jul 2007)^[9]
2. Made to be Broken (novel, Feb 2009)
3. Wild Justice (novel, late 2013)^[10]
4. Double Play^[11] (Apr 2016)
5. Perfect Victim^[12] (Nov 2017)

The Darkest Capabilities Series

Main article: Darkest Powers

The Darkest Reason Trilogy

The Darkness Rising Trilogy

Cainsville series

1. Omens (novel, Aug 2013)^[19]
2. Visions (novel, Aug 2014)^[20]
3. Deceptions (novel, Aug 2015)^[21]
4. Betrayals (novel, Aug 2016)^[22]
5. Rituals (novel, Aug 2017)^[23]
6. Portents: A Collection of Cainsville Tales (collection, Aug 2018)^[24]
7. Cruel Fate (novella, Apr 2019)^[25]
8. Rough Justice (novella, Jun 2018)^[26]
9. Lost Souls (novella, Mar 2017)^[27]

The Age of Legends Series

1. Sea of Shadows (novel, 2014)
2. Empire of Night (novel, 2015)
3. Forest of Ruin (novel, 2016)

The Blackwell Pages Trilogy

Written under the alias: K. L. Armstrong. Co-authored with Melissa Marr.

1. Loki's Wolves (2013)
2. Odin's Ravens (May 2014)
3. Thor's Serpent (May 2015)

Rockton novels

1. City of significance Lost (Jan 2017)
2. A Darkness Absolute (Nov 2017)
3. This Fallen Prey (Nov 2018)
4. Watcher stop in full flow the Woods (Nov 2019)
5. Alone in righteousness Wild (Feb 2020)^[28]
6. A Stranger in Town (Feb 2021)
7. The Deepest of Secrets (Feb 2022)

A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying

1. A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying (Aug 2019)
2. The Gryphon's Lair (Jun 2020)^[29]
3. The Serpent's Fury (Jun 2021)
4. The Final Trial (Jun 2022)

Haven's Rock

1. Murder at Haven's Rock (Feb 2023)^[30]
2. The Boy Who Cried Bear (Feb 2024)^[31]

A Stitch in Time

Cursed Luck

A Rip Through Time

Series in collaboration

Anthologies and collections

Notes

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