Claudia Hall Christian writes fiction that strips away illusion and focuses on what’s real—how people think, break, and rebuild.
She is drawn to the moments most stories rush past: the aftermath, the consequences, the quiet decisions that determine what happens next. Her work explores how people respond when certainty disappears and easy narratives fall apart.
Claudia combines deep research with sharp observation, grounding her stories in how people actually behave rather than how we wish they would. The result is fiction that is both emotionally honest and intellectually precise.
Her characters are not heroes in the traditional sense. They are capable, imperfect, and often under pressure—people trying to move forward in situations that don’t offer clean answers.
If you care about what happens after everything falls apart—what people actually do next, and what it takes to rebuild—you’ll find it here.
Claudia writes mysteries, thrillers, and serial fiction. 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 — Bluesky, Spoutible, Mastodon, LinkedIn, and Pinterest
Claudia is:
the author of the Alex the Fey Thriller Series.
an author of mysteries — the Seth and Ava Mysteries, Abee Normal, Paranormal Investigations.
author of super-natural thrillers — Reapers, The Last Grand Master of the Templars, and The Inheritance of Stones
serial fiction author — Denver Cereal, the Queen of Cool (set in Fort Worth, Texas), Suffer a Witch (set in Boston, MA), and Hackneys.
creator of the Everyday Kindness Challenge and Simply Kind Tuesdays.
founder of Women and Fiction podcast.
founder of The Open Grove radio program.
public school educated from second grade through high school. She has a BA in Biochemistry from UC Berkeley. She attended Antioch University for her MA in Clinical Psychology.
a wife, a dog mommy to a rescued Labrador named Daisy, 4 time spine fusion, 2 knee replacement, 1 hip replacement 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
founder of #bookmarket, Twitter’s only chat about book marketing
bodybuilder (lifetime)
writing fiction full time since 2006.
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.