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October 16, 2017

Meet NEW YORK TIMES best-selling author Kelley Armstrong

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Kelley Armstrong, creator of the popular OTHERWORLD and CAINSVILLE series, is a featured guest at BOOKSHOUT!

BookShout! is Toronto Public Library’s inaugural festival of books and reading for young adults. An afternoon featuring some of YA’s most exciting stars and brightest emerging voices

Sun Oct 22, 2017
1:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Toronto Reference Library
Bram & Bluma Appel Salon

For more info on LED ASTRAY: THE BEST OF KELLEY ARMSTRONG, visit the Tachyon page.

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December 14, 2016

Happy birthday to the NEW YORK TIMES best-selling author Kelley Armstrong

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Canadian Kelley Armstrong’s first novel BITTEN, the initial book of WOMEN OF THE OTHERWORLD, was published in 2001. The immensely popular series eventually culminated with the thirteenth volume, THIRTEEN, in 2012. Beginning in 2014, BITTEN was adapted for television by the Canadian channel Space. The seventh book NO HUMANS INVOLVED was Armstrong’s first NEW YORK TIMES best-seller.

In 2007, Armstrong began her second series, NADIA STAFFORD, with EXIT STRATEGY. 2008’s THE SUMMONING started THE DARKEST POWERS trilogy. The second volume of the series AWAKENING achieved a number one status on the NEW YORK TIMES best-seller list. She followed that series in 2011 with the sequel trilogy THE DARKNESS RISING.

Armstrong started the CAINSVILLE series in 2013, which is currently comprised of four novels–OMENS (2013),
VISIONS (2014), DECEPTIONS (2015), and her most recent novel BETRAYALS (2016)–and the young adult THE AGE OF LEGENDS with SEA OF SHADOWS
(2014), EMPIRE OF NIGHT
(2015), and FOREST OF RUIN
(2016). She has published (as K. L. Armstrong co-authored with Melissa Marr) the middle-grade fantasy series BLACKWELL PAGES TRILOGY.

Her short stories have been collected in several books including MEN OF THE OTHERWORLD (2010), TALES OF THE OTHERWORLD (2012), OTHERWORLD NIGHTS (2014), DARKEST POWERS TALES (2015), LED ASTRAY: THE BEST OF KELLEY ARMSTRONG (2015), and OTHERWORLD CHILLS (2016).

All of us at Tachyon, wish the extraordinary Kelley, a happy birthday! Beware the creatures of the night.

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February 9, 2016

LED ASTRAY demonstrates the breadth of Kelley Armstrong’s writing abilities

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized age of legends, cainsville, chuckles book cave, collection, darkest powers, elizabeth story, fresh books, horror, kelley armstrong, led astray, led astray: the best of kelley armstrong, otherworld, paranormal romance, review, short stories, the qwilllery, urban fantasy, vampires, werewolves, women of the otherworld

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A trio of reviews for the good read LED ASTRAY: THE BEST OF KELLEY ARMSTRONG.

From THE QWILLERY:

Overall, this anthology really shows the breadth of Armstrong’s writing abilities. Each of her worlds are distinct and separate from one another. Cainsville stories have a different “voice” than stories set in the Otherworld. Her horror stories have a different, more eerie vibe to them than any of the others. Overall, this would be a terrific introduction to Armstrong, but it is absolutely essential to someone who wants to have everything related to a particular series.

FRESH BOOKS:

Evil lurks amongst us but sometimes it is in the last place you would expect, and Armstrong has done a great job of showing this. Many of these stories have twists and turns that took me by surprise, which only added to my entertainment. I enjoyed each of these stories and would be hard pressed to pick just one out as a favorite. I will say the werewolf and gargoyle stories do have a higher place than the others but as a whole this collection is a good read. I was quickly pulled into each story and enjoyed the ride. These characters are mostly already established characters and places so you may want to read her other works, but it is not absolutely necessary to do so to enjoy LED ASTRAY.

I loved getting to see more from some of the worlds Kelley Armstrong has created and finding the other worlds and characters in the new stories that were included in this book.

CHUCKLES BOOK CAVE:

With so many short stories in this volume, it will be a short comment on each one! SA means standalone, WOTO is an Otherworld story. I missed out the Darkest Powers, Cainsville and Age of Legends stories as I don’t read these series. Overall the standard was very good.

For more information on LED ASTRAY: THE BEST OF KELLEY ARMSTRONG, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

August 7, 2015

The great LED ASTRAY: THE BEST OF KELLEY ARMSTRONG is engaging, entertaining, and interesting

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Pair of reviews for the mesmerizing LED ASTRAY: THE BEST OF KELLEY ARMSTRONG.

Photo: Kathryn Hollinrake

From THE EATER OF BOOKS!:

Overall, the stories in this anthology were engaging, entertaining, interesting, and definitely helpful if you’ve read the full-length novels of the series that the short story corresponds to. And the short stories that stand alone are mesmerizing and strange, definitely worth reading! All of the stories are rather short, which I (for the most part) enjoyed!

LOLA’S REVIEWS:

This is a great short story collection of short stories written by Kelley Armstrong, some take place in the universe of her existing series and other are standalones. I think the ones that take place in her series universe are my favourite as there I have more of a context to place them in, more background and knowledge about the world. Especially the Cainsville short stories, I read Visions at the same time as I read this and the short stories all shed a new light on events and reveal a bit more about Cainsville.

Although some of the standalones ones were very good as well. Most short stories contain some kind of twist which I really liked. As even though they were short they were enjoyable and often managed to surprise me with the twist. The short stories are all very well written, there were a few I didn’t care for, but most were enjoyable. All in al I think this is a great book for fans of Kelley her writing or those wanting to get a feel for her writing style.

For more information on LED ASTRAY: THE BEST OF KELLEY ARMSTRONG, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

June 23, 2015

Reviewers, bloggers, and librarians get a copy of LED ASTRAY: THE BEST OF KELLEY ARMSTRONG at NetGalley

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Review copies of LED ASTRAY: THE BEST OF KELLEY ARMSTRONG are now available via NetGalley.

These copies are only for reviewers and librarians. For more details, visit NetGalley.

And while you are there, check out the other Tachyon titles for review.

LED ASTRAY: THE BEST OF KELLEY ARMSTRONG

ISBN: 978-1-61696-202-9

Published: September 2015

Available Format(s): Trade Paper and Digital Books

With her signature twists and turns, #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong (Otherworld, Cainsville, Darkest Powers, Age of Legends) always gives a fresh spin on city-dwelling vampires, werewolves, and zombies. She is equally exciting when traveling further afield, to a post-apocalyptic fortress, a superstitious village, a supernatural brothel, and even feudal Japan.

Here is the first time that urban fantasy, young adult, mystery, and crime author Kelley Armstrong has had her stories collected from the Otherworld and beyond. From humorous to heart-stopping, and including two original tales, LED ASTRAY showcases Armstrong at her versatile best.

Rakshashi (standalone)
Kat (Darkest Powers universe, non-series narrator)
A Haunted House of Her Own (standalone)
Learning Curve (Otherworld universe, Zoe)
The Screams of Dragons (Cainsville universe, non-series narrator)
The Kitsune’s Nine Tales (Age of Legends universe, non-series narrator)
Last Stand (standalone)
Bamboozled (Otherworld universe, non-series narrator)
Branded (Otherworld universe, non-series narrator)
The List (Otherworld universe, Zoe)
Young Bloods (Otherworld universe, non-series narrator)
The Door (standalone, original to this collection)
Dead Flowers by a Roadside (standalone)
Suffer the Children (standalone)
The Collector (standalone)
Gabriel’s Gargoyles (Cainsville universe, Gabriel)
Harbinger (standalone)
V Plates (Otherworld universe, Nick)
Life Sentence (Otherworld universe, non-series narrator)
Plan B (standalone)
The Hunt (Cainsville universe, non-series narrator)
Dead to Me (standalone)
Devil May Care (Cainsville universe, Patrick, original to this collection)

For more info about LED ASTRAY: THE VERY BEST OF KELLEY ARMSTRONG, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story.

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Meet NEW YORK TIMES best-selling author Kelley Armstrong

Happy birthday to the NEW YORK TIMES best-selling author Kelley Armstrong

LED ASTRAY demonstrates the breadth of Kelley Armstrong’s writing abilities

The great LED ASTRAY: THE BEST OF KELLEY ARMSTRONG is engaging, entertaining, and interesting

Reviewers, bloggers, and librarians get a copy of LED ASTRAY: THE BEST OF KELLEY ARMSTRONG at NetGalley

Review copies of LED ASTRAY: THE BEST OF KELLEY ARMSTRONG are now available via NetGalley.

LED ASTRAY: THE BEST OF KELLEY ARMSTRONG

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