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About Kate

I am Kage Baker's sister. Kage was/is a well-known science fiction writer, who died on January 31, 2010. She told me to keep her work going - I'm doing that. This blog will document the process.

What We Call “the year” Is Almost Done

Posted on December 21, 2023 by Kate

Well, hi there, all of you out there in the listening darkness. First of all, I wish you all a Happy Winter solstice – which will occur at 10:27 tonight. Then, it will be well and truly winter. I know I … Continue reading →

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Candy and Cats and Crones

Posted on October 8, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker is, as ever, the solar battery that drives my writing. And as I am hoping to resume some of that, and try to make for the fact that I have spent most of this year in a funk, … Continue reading →

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July 1

Posted on July 1, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker, were she still here, would be teasing me about my advanced age tonight, after making sure I had as close to a perfect meal as was possible. She always felt feasts were an absolutely vital part of all … Continue reading →

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Personal Problems

Posted on June 22, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker did not personally suffer from writer’s block. Oh, she had times when the words did not come easily, or at all – on the rare occasions when that happened, she resorted to a number of strategies to trick … Continue reading →

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June 10, 2023

Posted on June 10, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker was born on June 10th in the now-unbelievably primitive year of 1952. Today, she would have been 71 years old. Speaking of unbelievable, she would have found it hard to believe she had reached that advanced age. She … Continue reading →

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New Horizons In Fear

Posted on May 23, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker initially tried for several years to get her work published sans agent. Not that she had anything against agents – she just didn’t know any, and was unsure how to acquire one. So she submitted work “over the … Continue reading →

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Australia

Posted on May 21, 2023 by Kate

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Happy Mothers Day

Posted on May 14, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker celebrated Mothers Day as devotedly as any other person who had ever been a kid with a mother. Maybe more than some; she loved her mother very much. Mrs. Baker was an amazing sort of Southern Goddess, honey … Continue reading →

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The Cabinet of Wonder

Posted on May 12, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker kept lists of needy wonders. Those were things that had supposedly vanished, but that she thought were probably still there – reduced in numbers but grown in canniness, and hiding out from Homo sapiens. There were also the … Continue reading →

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Birds Are Singing. So Are Corgis.

Posted on May 11, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker did not like animals. She was adamant about it. I never saw her charmed by a dog, a cat or even a kitten. Not being charmed by a kitten is just … unnatural. She sneered when I told … Continue reading →

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