Kelley Armstrong is New York Times Bestselling Canadian author and while primarily a fantasy-writer, has several other genres she writes in such as middle grade, horror and crime. Kelley believes experience is the best teacher, though she’s been told this shouldn’t apply to writing her murder scenes. To craft her books, she has studied aikido, archery and fencing. She sucks at all of them. She has also crawled through very shallow cave systems and climbed half a mountain before chickening out. She is however an expert coffee drinker and a true connoisseur of chocolate-chip cookies.