JC: Your work is classified as fantasy fiction. I’m pretty sure it’s someone just like them. Some fans do not like who I’ve paired Jeremy up with, and they will give me detailed descriptions of whom he should be paired with. It might not always follow the path I want to go. KA: I definitely listen to what they say. JC: Has a fan ever inspired you in terms of plot or characters? KA: For the adult books, the target age range for women is 18 to 35. That first draft I’d never want anybody to see. The actual editing process takes longer than the writing. For an adult novel, I’ll be done in three months. I write a very fast first draft, 10,000 words a week. KA: I’ve developed a process over the years. JC: Many of your novels number 400-plus pages. Armstrong does write about vampires - and necromancers and witches and demons - but her heart seems to belong to the lycanthrope. The name ‘Kelley Armstrong’ doesn’t trip off the tongue like, say, Anne Rice or Stephenie Meyer, who propelled vampires into the pop-culture pantheon. Her books (there are 19 in total) have sold more than 1 million copies. Books five through 11 of the series made various bestseller lists (as did each of Armstrong’s ‘Darkest Powers’ YA trilogy) and the 12th entry, ‘Spell Bound,’ publishes this week. The book turned out to be the first of what is to be a 13-volume ‘Women of the Otherworld’ series. When Kelley Armstrong published her first volume of fantasy fiction in 2001, one reviewer wrote: ‘The plot is that of a thriller, and it’s a little shaky: there are too many villains and they are cartoonishly sinister.’ Nonetheless, Viking and Plume sold more than 100,000 copies of ‘Bitten,’ whose protagonist is a female werewolf with superhuman strength and a very active sex life. This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links.

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