Claudia Hall Christian is a prolific writer who writes great stories about good people caught in difficult times. She writes mysteries, thrillers, and serial fiction with a touch of heart. Claudia’s books are available at Amazon, Apple iBooks, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, and wherever books are sold. You can catch her on her blog – On a limb with Claudia – or social media — Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Pinterest

Claudia is:

the author of the Alex the Fey Thriller Series.
an author of mysteries — the Seth and Ava Mysteries and Abee Normal, Paranormal Investigations.
serial fiction author — Denver Cereal, the Queen of Cool (set in Fort Worth, Texas), Suffer a Witch (set in Boston, MA).
creator of the Everyday Kindness Challenge and Simply Kind Tuesdays.
founder of Women and Fiction podcast.
public school educated from second grade through high school. She has a BA in Biochemistry from UC Berkeley.
a sister, a wife, a dog mommy to two feral Plott hounds, 3 time spine fusion survivor, guerilla gardener, and a beekeeper.

Claudia has been:

a lab assistant in virus labs at UCSF (1986-1988)
a marketing research computer programmer (1989-1993)
a severe trauma, addiction, and PTSD psychotherapist (1994-2005); a MA in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University (1995); EMDR therapist
the founder of the Open Grove
founder of #bookmarket, Twitter’s only chat about book marketing
bodybuilder (lifetime)

Claudia is that funny friendly person who’s clogging up the grocery line because the clerk is chatting away to her like they are best friends. She’s the girl everyone knew in high school but never quite fit into any social group. If you tell her something, she’s likely to remember. But never fear — nothing you tell her will ever show up in any of her books. She reads a lot of books and magazines. She loves people and facts so her work is accurate and deeply researched.

If you don’t know her yet, friend her on social media or drop a line at claudia at claudiahallchristian.com

When you look around the web, you’ll likely see this photo of Claudia. It was taken one Halloween after a Devotchka concert. It’s a pretty good photo (for a photo), but not great as a professional photo.

**Why aren’t there better professional photos of Claudia?**
Claudia hates to have her picture taken.
She’s taken a few more professional photos and head shots, but this photo is closer to what she actually looks like than anything a professional photographer takes, even all these years later.
The other reason is that Claudia grew up in a time when you could read everything someone wrote and know nothing about them.
She believes that the work should speak for itself.
In her mind, authors are fairly boring people. Prolific authors are even more boring than other authors because they spend most of their lives fussing over one story or another.
So enjoy the work. Expect that Claudia is typing away somewhere right now.