About Catherine

Welcome to one of my little corners on this big wide internet. I am your host, Catherine, a twenty-two year old from New Zealand. You may be more familiar with it as Middle Earth, and I should tell you now that not all of New Zealand actually looks like what you saw in the films (a lot of it is like that, though). I also do not have a pet sheep, contrary to popular opinion about New Zealand seems to be.

I am a recent graduate of Victoria University, where I majored in classical studies; for two years, however, my major was archaeology. I eventually tired of sorting out the bird bones from the rat bones and went on to do a one year diploma in web development before returning to complete my BA.

My current goal is to become a published author, and my dream to be able to make my living as a full-time writer. I have completed one novel, Blood Bound, and am working on others. My favourite genres to write (as well as read!) are young adult and fantasy. For more information about these works, and for extracts and things, please visit the writing page of this website.

 

About The Site

Catherine-Haines.com is my third domain, after Disdainful-Soul.net and Amynta.org. Disdainful-Soul.net held and still holds my personal blog, while after many false starts and a long time of being used as a subdomain domain, Amynta.org become my writing blog, Working Title.

Unlike with the other domains, which reference The Aeneid or the Greek language, there is no fancy story behind this domain. It was something I had been wanting for a while but didn’t want to waste a good $20NZ or so for a wish which I didn’t have any specific design for. But then I was fortunate enough to win one of NameCheap’s Twitter quiz questions which meant I had enough credit for one domain name. And so, after a bit of consideration, I went ahead and registered the name.

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