Catherine Cheek

Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.

Most commented posts

  1. “Emily’s Fifth Birthday” and “Alternative Medicine” — 16 comments
  2. Seeing Things, Part 1: The Big Idea — 10 comments
  3. Seeing Things, Part 8: First cover mockups — 10 comments
  4. Seeing Things, Part 11: paper books and cover design fallout — 9 comments
  5. First Stained Glass Panel — 8 comments

Author's posts

Writing Advice: Prologues

 Dear Blog Friends: This is my first flowchart. I used visio, only to find that wordpress doesn’t want me to post visio documents for “security reasons.” Um. Okay. Gimp to the rescue! It’s not a pretty flowchart. I’d like to have colors and have it a little tidier, but as this was my first …

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Dayrunner Promo Video

Dear Blog Friends, I made a video. Call it a promo video of sorts. I am hoping people will find it amusing on its own, and maybe they will seek my book out because of it. Here’s the link. how to stake a vampire   Kater

Dayrunner…live!

Dear Blog friends, Book three in the Seabingen series is up. You can get it on Smashwords, or Kindle. It’s $2.99 at both places. My friend Keyan Bowes helped me with last-minute typos and inconsistency errors. She lobbied for a different title, but I couldn’t come up with one I’d liked better (and it took …

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Treemaker art

My friend Keyan did this digital art inspired by TREEMAKER and she said I could post it here.

Freaky Rabbit Sculpture

In the pottery studio, there used to be a postcard with a photo of this really cool freaky hare sculpture.  Naturally, when I went looking for it to use as a reference, it had mysteriously vanished.  I did this anyway, and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. I wanted that weird blobby texture …

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