Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Jan 05
Book Review: Evolve, Vampire Stories of the New Undead
Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead by Nancy Kilpatrick Do you like vampires? No, do you REALLY like vampires? This is a collection of 24 short stories, all dealing with vampires and how they have changed in modern fiction. Editor Nancy Kilpatrick is a little obsessed with vampires, and her prologue is worth reading. …
Jan 03
Failed Smiley Balls
Part of doing art of any kind involves learning from failure. I find the low-fire glazes rather tiresome to apply, especially when you can’t set them down until the glaze dries. I made the nifty double-fork tongs to help glaze them (see last post) and I naturally assumed that it would be easy to just …
Jan 03
Blogging Resolution, off to a rip-roaring start.
I bet a lot of blogs begin on or near January. I don’t have a particular resolution to post every day, or even every other day, per se, but I would like to have some more consistent comment here. It’s going to take me a few months to fall into a schedule, but here are …
Jan 01
Year of books–2010
I keep track of the books I read, both on Goodreads and in a notebook by my computer. Call it “double booking” (ha ha, ouch, sorry). In 2010 I read 87 books. I’m including two that I started and read at least a hundred and fifty pages of before setting them down. 24 of these …
Dec 30
Review: Shades of Milk and Honey
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal I’d had a spell of reading dull, tedious, and difficult books, and had quite lost my appetite for reading, so I was glad to finally get my hands on a copy of SHADES OF MILK AND HONEY, about which I’d heard many pleasant things. This novel …