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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.

Power and Program Problems

Posted on October 1, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker hated being cut off from the Internet. Not due to a fondness for social media – she loathed it, actually, aside from dictating snide remarks to me when I was on Facebook. No, she just got frantic when … Continue reading →

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Now Goes September

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker considered September pretty much a place-holder month. It wasn’t summer anymore – no matter what excesses the weather got up to – and it was not really Autumn. Further, although the leaves began to turn most years, it … Continue reading →

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I Need To Start Again

Posted on September 29, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker didn’t have the easiest of lives. Let’s face it; few people do, and most of those are no one you’d want to know. She persevered, though, and enjoyed the vast majority of her days. When it was obvious … Continue reading →

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Refribbing The Thermostat

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker. There, my symbolic post marker is in. The heat is not too bad in L.A. tonight – but it’s been hot for too long, as well as deadly humidity. Angelenos of my generation are not used to humidity, … Continue reading →

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Why Paddy’s Not At Work Today

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker did her best to work at her writing every single day. She had an unusually implacable work ethic, and succeeded at this goal much more than most people do. Especially writers. Writers are notorious for failing to write. … Continue reading →

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Hitting My Mark

Posted on August 4, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker liked, and made, detailed plans. She was gifted when necessity required improvisation – she could come up with truly amazing solutions when Fate screwed the regular plan over, and arses had to be pulled from fires. Life in … Continue reading →

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Climate

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker truly adored the Summer season. It was her home season. It would have been even if she had not been born on its door step – which she was – because it was generally the longest period of … Continue reading →

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In Thunder Weather

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker passionately loved the early summer weather of Southern California. What she loved best were the warm, grey days – May Grey, June Gloom, July Oh-Why: whatever the idiot news people called those weeks-long periods when coastal California warms … Continue reading →

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Lammas

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker loved celebrating Lammas. High summer and Harvest combined. The exotic apple stand up one of the canyons above Avila Bay was finally open, and every day thunderheads floated out over the blue, blue Pacific. If we were going … Continue reading →

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National Birthday

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Kate

Kage Baker loved the Fourth of July. Part of it was because Kage loved the United States of America. She had a deep, personal, everyday sort of patriotism – she wasn’t much of a flag waver, she simply did her … Continue reading →

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