The one thing I dislike about starting a new blog is the emptiness of it all. I’m keeping both Disdainful-Soul.net and Working Title up for various reasons, such as archival purposes and the many subdomains I have on those domains (like On The Nightstand, my book review blog).

The writing page now actually has little blurbs on each of my current projects – ranging from Blood Bound, which is currently in the final stages of editing before I start querying, to Bones and The Superhero Diaries. All the little excerpts that were on Working Title are now up there, with the addition of the Bones stuff. I’ll soon be transferring over the short fiction and putting it under some category or other, but right now it is not a priority.

Some of you may have noticed a change in the header and navigation. I like this a lot better as it streamlines the whole thing, plus it is easier to change the navigation (add/subtract/edit) than when it is just straight images. Plus it changes on hover, which is always fun.

Everything else is pretty much minor, really: I fixed a typo in the last.fm link, and made the contact page link very visible. I also finally set up the feedburner feed, so if you want to follow the blog you can add the C-H.com feed to your RSS reader.

Don’t know what RSS and RSS readers are all about? Start with the wiki entry and go from there. The reader I use is Google Reader.

I do have a “real” post planned and I will get on with writing it asap. I just wanted to update you on this first.

I think the title pretty much sums up my thoughts for the moment.

I’ve been meaning to turn Catherine-Haines.com, my name domain, into a proper little site for a while now, but I just lacked either the motivation or the inspiration or whatever to do something with it. It was, after all, quite content to just sit there and be a little portal to all my other sites.

And then, as is so often the case, I got hit with a flash of genius. Unfortunately, as is also so often, it didn’t work out quite as well as it did in my head. I may have something to do with being midnight, but other factors might be involved as well.

But a goodnight sleep later and a good proper think about things the idea developed and a design created that actually worked. That design is the one you see here, all blue and floral and with all sorts of little touches around the edges. There are probably a few little tweaks and additions that could be made, but other than that it’s pretty much all systems are go!

It’s highly unlikely that a wheel will fall of, or anything even more drastic than that.

So, let’s see what we have:

• Charts showing my progress with my other projects, Bones and The Superhero Diaries
• Links to all my social networking sites. Thanks to the lovely Mimi for the little pixels.
• A writing page with info about Blood Bound and The Superhero Diaries, complete with extracts. Bones needs to have that done and I know it – no need to remind me on that one.
• A links page that is slowly growing. There are many authors etc. to add so if you don’t see yourselves on the list just drop me a line – I didn’t intend to lose you in the transfer, I promise!

And, if all goes well, not only should this post appear on my Twitter account, but also on my MySpace.

And here we go…