Posted by: Tan Light - Coordinator, Digital Sales & Marketing

Ask anyone who knows me, and they will tell you I love two things: Books and the supernatural. As a kid, the first two sections of the library I went to every weekend were Horror for fiction & Occult for non-fiction. Over the years, I have developed quite a collection of paranormal fiction, from Christopher Pike to Anne Rice and Kay Hooper. If you’ve been following our new RandomHouseCA twitter feed, then you know that my absolute favourite author is the wonderful Kelley Armstrong, author of the Women of the Otherworld Series and the new Darkest Powers Series for young adults.

In order to develp a plan for the release of her latest book, Living with the Dead, I have been living and breathing her books since late summer. I’ve had the opportunity to meet with the company big-wigs as the “resident Kelley Armstrong fan” (What a title!) and get a sneak peek at the books coming next year. I’ve even worked with Kelley via email to develop a Facebook application, (you can check it out here), a first for both of us.

But the cherry on the cake was finally meeting Kelley in person. She was here in Toronto last night for a signing at the Chapters Queensway. (By the way, they have signed copies of the whole series in stock right now!) It took me an hour by transit, but I hauled my first edition hardcover copy of Bitten, the first book in the Otherworld series, all the way down there to be signed. And to my delight, Kelley turned out to be one of the nicest people. We spent nearly an hour talking about writing (yes, I am an aspiring author myself) and what it’s like to write in the supernatural genre.

The whole evening confirmed that Kelley has rightly earned her place as my personal hero.