Claire O’Dell is the author of dozens of short stories and a number of novels, including the SF mystery series, The Janet Watson Chronicles, and the epic fantasy series River of Souls. Her first novel, Passion Play, won the 2010 RT Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Epic Fantasy and was long-listed for the Otherwise award. Her novel A Study in Honor won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery.
Claire has an undergraduate degree in German, including a year abroad at Heidelberg Universität. In addition to her fiction, she has a thirty-plus year career in software development, with projects ranging from applied cryptography to custom web applications. She currently lives in Connecticut with her beloved (and idiosyncratic) cat.
Claire is represented by Lane Heymont at the Tobias Literary Agency. For inquiries about rights, please contact the agency.