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Catherine is a young writer from Ontario, Canada. She enjoys travelling and experiencing new things, particularily in her native country, Canada, and in the British Isles. Catherine enjoys camping, kayaking, hiking, and other outdoor pursuits. She's an avid musician and enjoys playing saxophone, piano, and guitar, although the latter is played quite badly.
Catherine's favourite genres include thriller, mystery, crime, and contemporary. Her current work is tentatively titled "Fall of Glory", althout it may gain a vowel at some point in time.

Fall of Glory is her first novel, and is based loosely upon a case in the late seventies, early eighties, about a man who was killed over an invention he'd created. The fictional version is about a man who invents a solar-powered car in current times...with the oil crisis and such economic instability, who knows how far the oil companies would go to deter such a thing?

favourite books

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Fatal Voyage - Kathy Reichs
Break No Bones - Kathy Reichs
All Quiet on the Western Front - Enrich Maria Remarque
Three Day Road - Joseph Boyden
Blood Hunt - Ian Rankin as Jack Harvey
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

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A Fall of Glory

Catherine Callaghan

A professor has invented a plausible solar car. An oil company has found out and will stop at nothing to destroy plans, prototype, and inventor...


Environmental Science professor and avid eco-tourist, David Graham searches for adventure in his day-to-day life. When he attempts to patent the solar car he has invented, he gets more than he had bargained for. He finds himself fighting for his beloved invention and, moreover, his life as he starts to recieve some very pressing 'offers' from a few powerful multination cartels.


This adventure raging across the vast and unforgiving Canadian Shield will have you on the edge of your seat. In this time of global uncertainty and amidst the oil crisis, alternitives to natural gas must be found. The only question is -- will the upper echelons of global oil companies let this happen? Money is power, after all. Just how powerful are the forces that we depend so much upon? How far will they go?


Author's note: This is the bare-bones skeleton of the novel, written in one month for NaNoWriMo 2008. This is my first novel, but not my first large project. Comments, suggestions, critiques, and plot-fillers are not only welcomed, but possibly necessary! Thanks for reading!

 

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I wrote 1274 days ago

This is very cute, Dai! I've been reading up to ch. 5, and find it very amusing, although slightly confusing as well. You have an extremely unique style (when you say you've written him socks) but it works, as long as you keep those interludes at a constant pace. I like the whole 'arcitects and to... view book

I wrote 1278 days ago

Woo for NaNo! Your pitch sounds interesting -- will have a read when I get the chance. I'm hopefully uploading mine soon. Want to do a little novel swap? : ) Happy Novelling! view book

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