Author Bio

Short Version:

Christina Cattane is the author of the Christian fantasy novel ‘Lost in the Land of the Midnight Sun’.

She is also a co-host of the Christian Indie Writers’ Podcast. A podcast geared toward supporting, informing, and encouraging Christian indie writers.

Christina is a pastor’s wife and ‘Lost in the Land of the Midnight Sun’ was as an idea that came to her while teaching a Bible study about the life of Moses. The idea, “What if we lost the New Testament and reverted back to living under Old Testament law?” took over ten years to come to fruition as a completed novel. It is part of a trilogy, and the other two books are scheduled to be released soon.

Christina is married to Pastor Bob Cattane and has four grown children.

Christina grew up in Alaska, where her books are set, but currently lives in Flint, Michigan.

Long Version:

I was born in Pensacola Florida, (which I pronounced Pepsi-Cola when I was still a good kid). We moved to Anchorage, Alaska when I was two where we lived on base until my dad retired from the Navy and got a job in the oil industry. My dad told the story of getting offered his job just 30 minutes before his retirement ceremony, keeping him from taking a job on the 100^th floor of the World Trade Center. (Whew! That was a close one! All my stories were almost set in NYC instead of Alaska!)

I spent my childhood in a neighborhood which bordered the property of Alaska Pacific University. Behind our back gate were the woods and trails used by the University ski team and it was a child’s paradise. My love of the Alaskan woods was born and flourished there.

Some of my favorite books include ‘Call of the Wild’, ‘Kavik the Wolf Dog’, and ‘White Fang’. My deep love for the dogs of the north comes from those stories.

I’ve always loved to make up stories.

Like when I told the kids at school that I was adopted because my biological parents were from warring mafia families, both of whom wanted to kill me.

Then there was the boyfriend I made up. I even wrote myself letters with my left hand to ‘sell’ it. I may have gone overboard when my imaginary boyfriend was in a small plane crash over the Amazon jungle and inadvertently found a ruby mine, making him rich.

(Sorry to all the friends who believed these tales, but hey, you can always say you heard one of my first!)

I once wrote a soap opera series for my classmates called “When the **** hits the fan.” (That was the actual title, the asterisks stood for asterisks) The first time I heard them laugh at what I wrote I was hooked.

We moved to Saudi Arabia when I was 12 and lived there until I was 14. We had the chance to travel the world during those two years. My best and worst vacation memories were from a cruise down the Nile River. It was shortly after Hosni Mubarak’s takeover in 1981 which made us one of the few tourists crazy enough to be there. We had the tour guide mostly to ourselves which was wonderful, but I was thirteen and apparently worth 100 camels to the owner of a jewelry shop. He offered them to my mom in exchange for my hand in marriage. That wasn’t so wonderful. (No, that’s not one of the stories I made up.)

We moved back to Anchorage where I lived until I married at 19.

After 8 years and 3 children we divorced and I spent some time as a single mother.

One night I prayed, “Lord, please send me someone who loves you first, and loves me too.”

He answered that prayer when he sent my husband into my life.

Yes dear, you ARE a gift from God.

Now I spend my days homeschooling my teenage son, evaluating web searches, and writing. The dishes might be piled up in the sink, and I may be a failure as a housewife, but I can always make up a story that I’m not.

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Long Version:

I spent my childhood in a neighborhood which bordered the property of Alaska Pacific University. Behind our back gate were the woods and trails used by the University ski team and it was a child’s paradise. My love of the Alaskan woods was born and flourished there.

Some of my favorite books include ‘Call of the Wild’, ‘Kavik the Wolf Dog’, and ‘White Fang’. My deep love for the dogs of the north comes from those stories.

I’ve always loved to make up stories.

Like when I told the kids at school that I was adopted because my biological parents were from warring mafia families, both of whom wanted to kill me.

Then there was the boyfriend I made up. I even wrote myself letters with my left hand to ‘sell’ it. I may have gone overboard when my imaginary boyfriend was in a small plane crash over the Amazon jungle and inadvertently found a ruby mine, making him rich.

(Sorry to all the friends who believed these tales, but hey, you can always say you heard one of my first!)

I once wrote a soap opera series for my classmates called “When the **** hits the fan.” (That was the actual title, the asterisks stood for asterisks) The first time I heard them laugh at what I wrote I was hooked.

We moved back to Anchorage where I lived until I married at 19.

After 8 years and 3 children we divorced and I spent some time as a single mother.

One night I prayed, “Lord, please send me someone who loves you first, and loves me too.”

He answered that prayer when he sent my husband into my life.

Yes dear, you ARE a gift from God.

Now I spend my days homeschooling my teenage son, evaluating web searches, and writing. The dishes might be piled up in the sink, and I may be a failure as a housewife, but I can always make up a story that I’m not.

Thanks for visiting my site. I hope my work makes you laugh, cry, get angry, or inspires you to change the world.

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Short Version:

Long Version:

I spent my childhood in a neighborhood which bordered the property of Alaska Pacific University. Behind our back gate were the woods and trails used by the University ski team and it was a child’s paradise. My love of the Alaskan woods was born and flourished there.

Some of my favorite books include ‘Call of the Wild’, ‘Kavik the Wolf Dog’, and ‘White Fang’. My deep love for the dogs of the north comes from those stories.

I’ve always loved to make up stories.

Like when I told the kids at school that I was adopted because my biological parents were from warring mafia families, both of whom wanted to kill me.

Then there was the boyfriend I made up. I even wrote myself letters with my left hand to ‘sell’ it. I may have gone overboard when my imaginary boyfriend was in a small plane crash over the Amazon jungle and inadvertently found a ruby mine, making him rich.

(Sorry to all the friends who believed these tales, but hey, you can always say you heard one of my first!)

I once wrote a soap opera series for my classmates called “When the **** hits the fan.” (That was the actual title, the asterisks stood for asterisks) The first time I heard them laugh at what I wrote I was hooked.

We moved back to Anchorage where I lived until I married at 19.

After 8 years and 3 children we divorced and I spent some time as a single mother.

One night I prayed, “Lord, please send me someone who loves you first, and loves me too.”

He answered that prayer when he sent my husband into my life.

Yes dear, you ARE a gift from God.

Now I spend my days homeschooling my teenage son, evaluating web searches, and writing. The dishes might be piled up in the sink, and I may be a failure as a housewife, but I can always make up a story that I’m not.

Thanks for visiting my site. I hope my work makes you laugh, cry, get angry, or inspires you to change the world.

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