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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.

Changes

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Kate

Kage Baker disliked change. Oh, everybody claims to dislike change, I know. Except the ones who claim to thrive on it. In actual fact, though, most people just kind of thrash helplessly in the competing currents of change and inertia, … Continue reading →

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What Beverage Goes Best With Writer’s Block?

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Kate

Kage Baker was an serious accessorizer. She liked to compile whole suites of clothes, music, foods, scents. She arranged and re-arranged lares and penates, fetishes and souveniers, in order to create just the right atmosphere for any given project. The … Continue reading →

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Lights In The Dark Heart of Winter

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Kate

Kage Baker  was a fervent advocate of Christmas lights. We had a strict schedule – they went up on December 1st, in all colours; then the similarly-lit tree went up on December 15th. The tree came down on January 1st, … Continue reading →

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Monkey Day

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Kate

Kage Baker invented holidays when she felt like it. There were never enough, in her opinion; festive observances were never out of place, so she invented many and stuck them into her personal calendar of events. Some times of year … Continue reading →

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Small, Strange Businesses

Posted on November 28, 2015 by Kate

Kage Baker absolutely loved to shop. When she had no money, she went window shopping and made lists for when she did get money. She never carried her own credit or debit card, nor even kept them in her desk … Continue reading →

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Interesting Stuff

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Kate

Kage Baker loved the quiet parts of the winter holidays – the off-days, the filler days, the days between the great high holy days when one could lie about and eat leftovers and engage in  entertaining research. When the King … Continue reading →

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Good Times

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Kate

Kage Baker always espoused a quiet, contemplative Thanksgiving Day. Why she did, I do not know. She never got one. It’s a primary family holiday, of course, so when we were small it was all loud and confused bun fights … Continue reading →

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There IS Someone Out There

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Kate

Kage Baker was always curious about who her readers were. Not one by one, so much: she was terminally shy, and always dreaded having to talk to fans individually.  But she really was interested in who they were in general, … Continue reading →

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Non Requiescant In Pace

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Kate

Kage Baker didn’t want to know when her friends died. It wasn’t that she didn’t care – she did, tremendously. But we’d entered that time of life when one’s playmates start dying a lot; and she couldn’t stand the increasing … Continue reading →

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Reserves or Springs?

Posted on November 15, 2015 by Kate

Kage Baker used to worry about running out of ideas. Probably most writers do that. Some, obviously, do not – there are some quite successful writers who have been writing the same story over and over through their careers. There … Continue reading →

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