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Tibby Armstrong (born January 22, 1969) is an American author who writes primarily in the Romance genre.

Life and career
Armstrong's novella Sheet Music placed second in the Romance Writers of America Passionate Ink chapter's Passionate Plume contest in 2010. The novel length work went on to be published by Ellora's Cave later that year. Two novels in the series followed, Undercover Lover (2012) and Hard Target (2013). Undercover Lover garnered Ellora's Cave's Rising Star award in 2012. The trilogy features a group of ex-spies whose work as security consultants to clients in the public sphere collides with past intrigues and present relationships.

No Apologies, Armstrong's first LGBTQ work, was released by boutique publisher Loose Id in 2011. The work also placed in the RWA Passionate Ink chapter's Passionate Plume contest. Four novels in the Hollywood series followed, also published with Loose Id: Acting Out (2012), Full Disclosure (2012), Outtakes (2013), and Numbers Game (2014). The series follows a screenwriter, his film producer boyfriend, and two actors as they navigate Hollywood and sexuality in the 1990s and 2000s.

Signed by agent Deidre Knight of The Knight Agency in 2015, in 2016 Armstrong's first Paranormal Romance, Surrender the Dark was acquired by Shauna Summers of Penguin Random House for their Loveswept line. The series, Boston After Dark, follows a band of vampire hunters as they attempt to contain a magical cataclysm that results from animosity between Boston's supernatural denizens. The second installment, Taste the Dark, was published in 2018.

Coauthor of nine novels in The Asylum Fight Club series with Bianca Sommerland, about a group of men who open a fight-club themed bar in the fictional city of Anniston Falls, New York, Armstrong has continued to write in the LGBTQ Romance genre since 2013.

The Asylum Fight Club

 * Flawed Justice, co-written with Bianca Sommerland (October 2019)
 * Beyond Justice, co-written with Bianca Sommerland (December 2019)
 * Cold Justice, co-written with Bianca Sommerland (February 2020)
 * Hard Justice, co-written with Bianca Sommerland (April 2020)
 * Raw Justice, co-written with Bianca Sommerland (May 2020)
 * Dark Justice, co-written with Bianca Sommerland (June 2020)
 * Uneven Justice, co-written with Bianca Sommerland (July 2020)
 * Deserted Justice, co-written with Bianca Sommerland (August 2020)
 * Stolen Justice, co-written with Bianca Sommerland (September 2020)

Boston After Dark

 * Surrender the Dark (2017, Penguin Random House)
 * Taste the Dark (2018)

Hollywood

 * No Apologies (April 2011, Loose Id)
 * Acting Out (May 2012, Loose Id)
 * Full Disclosure (August 2012, Loose Id)
 * Outtakes (August 2013, Loose Id)
 * Numbers Game (April 2014, Loose Id)

Wells Brothers

 * Public Relations, now Front Page Gossip (October 2013, Loose Id)

Covert Attractions

 * Sheet Music, (August 2010, Ellora's Cave)
 * Undercover Lover, (December 2012, Ellora's Cave)
 * Hard Target, (April 2013, Ellora's Cave)

Essays

 * What Katharine Hepburn Taught Me About Writing (2013, Savvy Authors)

Reception
Frannie Strober Cassano of Library Journal wrote that "Armstrong (No Apologies) builds a forbidding landscape, encompassing themes of family betrayal and scars masking emotional connection".