Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
Author's posts
Mar 05
Book Review: Disaster Preparedness
Disaster Preparedness: A Memoir by Heather Havrilesky I’ve really enjoyed Havrilesky’s advice column “Ask Polly” where she gently and empathically and sympathetically tells people in the nicest possible way exactly why they are full of crap and how all of their problems are their own fault. I love her voice, and figured I would like …
Mar 04
Gingerbread Robot
When I made the gingerbread houses for the cover of my epublished short stories I had a lot of extra dough left over. I had this idea in my mind of making an adorable evil robot. Delightfully, the robot is bigger than the houses, so it made a fun diorama for my Christmas party. Something …
Feb 25
Big Gingerbread House
I had created the little gingerbread house to use for the new book cover for my short stories and Jeremy took some great photos, but the photos weren’t the right size so we had to re-shoot. It took a few weeks to schedule the second shooting, so I had time to redesign the house to …
Feb 22
Book Review: Asleep
Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto A friend handed me this, not telling me what to expect, and it turned out to be a very literary novel. It’s not really a novel, per se., but three long short stories or short novellas all on the theme of sleeping. The first short story is about a woman worried …