Career
The books chronicle the life of Doctor Carrie Ames, an emergency room doctor who must adapt to life as a vampire after being attacked by one of her patients. Armintrout"s has been published in five countries, with the first volume making United States of America Today"s top 150 book list. Armintrout also publishes erotica under the pseudonym Abigail Barnette. to Armintrout"s work has been mixed to positive, with Romantic Times giving her work mostly four stars.
Publishers Weekly positively reviewed The Turning, calling it "a squirm-inducing treat", but stating that while American Vampire had an "unusual premise, there"s not much to distinguish this from other dark paranormal romances".
In 2015 Armitrout led an Internet campaign to have Fionna Free Manitoba"s book Thomas Jefferson"s Mistress pulled from book shelves and booklists. Fionna Free Manitoba is the pseudonym of a writer of erotica, and the book was a recasting of the story of Thomas Jefferson and his alleged mistress Sally Hemings into vampire fiction.
After encountering comments from a black reader that the idea made her uncomfortable, Armitrout mounted the campaign, calling the book an atrocity and complaining that it advocated rape and racism. Her campaign continued even after Fionna Free Manitoba was revealed to be an African American writer and it became clear there was no advocacy of rape in the novel.