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Following her Rainbow When Kelley Armstrong first spoke at Women’s Day, she had just published her first book, Bitten, the tale of a rare fantastical creature — a female werewolf. With one book under her belt, her goal was to keep to the schedule publishers like to see from their authors, one book a year. Ten years later, she has just released Book Number 24, and that doesn’t include more than a dozen novellas and anthologies plus two dozen-plus short stories. Bitten, the first of a 13-book Women of the Otherworld series, has just premiered as a television series on Space and Armstrong has completed two young adult series, a three-book adult mystery series about a female hitman, and has just released Omens, the debut for her new adult series, with the second book slated for release in August. It’s prolific, Armstrong admits. But, writing is like a muscle, she says. “You work it and it just gets easier. I can sit down in a doctor’s office and write for 15 or 20 minutes while I’m waiting. I can turn it on and off really easily.” She didn’t start out as a writer, although that was something she aspired to from childhood. Armstrong graduated university with a degree in psychology. But, realizing that career wouldn’t leave much time for recreational writing, she took a computer programming course at Fanshawe College and worked at that for five years, while writing in her spare time By the time Bitten was published, Armstrong had three young children and realized that she couldn’t juggle a full-time job, three kids — two of them toddlers — and a writing career. So, she took the leap into writing full time and hasn’t looked back. And, she continues to follow that rainbow. “I don’t ever intend to stop,” she says. “It just keeps on going for as long as people continue buying the books. Hopefully for a very long time.”