Catherine Cheek

Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.

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Mulberry Wands Cover Mockup Two

Still working on the cover for Mulberry Wands. I looked up fonts and decided on this one, Gondola, from dafont. I readjusted the skulls so you could see them better, and photographed it again, but the skulls were too far back, so I made stands for them. That didn’t work either, so I pushed them …

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The Crypt in the Alley

*The city code has very strict requirements on how deeply you must bury your dead fowl. I think this is ridiculous. People throw out spoiled chicken meat all the time. I do bag them first.

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Book Review: Marque and Reprisal

Marque and Reprisal by Elizabeth Moon I’ll tolerate a dull non-fiction, but a fiction book has to, above all else, be entertaining. If judging by that one criteria, this book succeeds admirably. I’m already most of the way through the third (15+hour!) audiobook in this series, and I haven’t even cracked the nonfiction I’m reading …

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Mulberry Wands Cover Mockup

  I’m too excited not to share this. It’s just a draft, but it already looks a little like a real cover. Things I will probably change: The title font. It looks like the wrong genre. I do like the black, and that it was a real font, and not one I hand-lettered. That was …

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