Claudia’s combined practice of twelve-step principles and her love of vampire mythology has inspired her to create this intimate and effective spiritual guide to “practical vampire slaying” – a pragmatic and loving method for identifying and freeing ourselves from the draining relationships so many of us have with our own “personal vampires.” Her "Ask the Slayer" column was a regular feature in Women's Online Magazine and she continues to write a popular blog at The Practical Vampire Slayer,
By practicing the spiritual principles of vampire slaying for the past 15 years she has received so much more than just freedom from her vampires – and it is this experience of “living in the light”: of seeing and receiving all that is being offered to us, that she knows her readers can find, too.
A native of Milwaukee, WI and transplant from hither and yon (San Franciso, CA and Galena, AK), she now lives in Polson, MT with her handsome husband Robert and their trapeze-swinging 13 year old, Madeline Jane.
Just as her second version of Biting Back (then called The Practical Vampire Slayer) was about to be sold, she discovered that she had breast cancer, and she signed her contract with Llewellyn while waiting in the chair while they set up her first chemotherapy treatment.
It is safe to say that without the love and huge support of her friends and family, doctors, nurses, her agent, editors and above all, Robert's and Maddie's unblinking certainty that she could do it, her first book would never have survived.
Thanks to these loved ones she has, at the moment, got about 3 or 4 more books up her sleeve.
Which she can't wait to get started on.
