Kelley Armstrong

The CBC recently interviewed Kelley Armstrong, author of the Women of the Otherworld series.

Part of the Q & A:

How did you come up with the story for No Humans Involved?

Jaime Vegas, the "celebrity spiritualist" protagonist of No Humans Involved, has been an important part of the series' ensemble cast and I really wanted to give her a book of her own. I like to put my characters into situations where they'll have to give their skills a workout to solve the mystery or overcome the threat. For Jaime, who can contact the dead, the obvious answer was to have her haunted by ghosts she couldn't contact. Placing the story on the set of a TV special let me add a light subplot to a dark story.

What led you to create the Women of the Otherworld series?

The first book, Bitten, was written as a stand-alone novel. When the question of making it into a series came up, I gave it a lot of thought because, as much as I loved the stories and characters, I couldn't imagine writing a lengthy series about werewolves. I decided to instead create a linked series with changing narrators/protagonists. In the second book, Stolen, I introduced other supernatural characters, and spun off to one of them — a witch — for the next book.

Read the entire interview.

The Page 69 Test: No Humans Involved.

--Marshal Zeringue