Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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May 22
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 …
May 20
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 …
May 19
Day and Night Shrine
I had prepared two shrine blanks to work on, and wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do with them, but I knew that one of them had to involve this color combination of blue+apricot yellow/orange. I started by gluing the wooden frame (I mitered and glued them years ago out of extra wooden …
May 17
Book Review – Trading Danger
Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon I don’t usually like hard sf. It’s very difficult to find a line between “too alien to make sense” and “not alien enough to be plausible” and so often, hard SF authors devote much more time to their engineering flights-of-fancy than to the characters that populate their worlds. So …