Author Archives: Kate

Kage Baker regarded her own birthday as the beginning of Summer. That was when real summer began. The calendar insisted it was June 21st, and Kage happily celebrated the older holiday of Midsummer on that date.  And of course, the … Continue reading →

Kage Baker, like most writers, kept an eye on several topics in news and research. Being a science fiction writer, a lot of them were science aggregators; for the same reason, others were purveyors of Weird News. The eyes were … Continue reading →

Kage Baker just missed e-readers. She would probably have liked them; she was certainly delighted to be able to sell her own works online, and she was an enthusiastic user of sites like GoogleBooks and The Gutenberg Project. I was … Continue reading →

Kage Baker bewailed the necessity of re-charging one’s batteries as one grew older. She felt it was vastly unfair – as one grew older and wiser and more adept at finding the fun things to do, one also grew more … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a perpetual passenger. Usually, mine. She never learned to drive – nor ever wanted to, either. She felt that her chancy vision – which was not always reliably binocular – plus her innate nervousness would constitute a … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was not one to stay up late at Cons. She insisted on as full a night’s sleep as she could get, so as to be sharp for the next day. I have neither her self-discipline, nor her sleep … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved going to conventions, but they were hard on her. The hours one tends to keep were tough – she was a diurnal person, and not inclined to go out to parties and be loud in any event. … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved people watching. The Faire was the best place for it, and we spent many a hot afternoon with our feet up, mugs of ale in hand, watching the tide of customers go by. It was always fun … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a firm believer in the adage that the point of a journey is the journey itself. Often, for her, it was; we’d set off with no goal or destination in mind, just to be travelling. The things … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved science fiction conventions, She hadn’t thought she would – she went to her first couple in anticipatory terror and distrust, prepared to be made mock of by hundreds of other people’s fans with bad pointy ears and … Continue reading →