Author Archives: Kate

Kage Baker would have been glued to the television today. She had what she called “a vulgar fascination with current events”. It was the recently-developed ability to see things all over the globe in real time that did it. Webcam … Continue reading →

Kage Baker felt very strongly that work was an an anodyne, a panacea. It was a refuge from sorrow and an antidote to care. “All that matters is the work,” she gives Mendoza to say, in her very first novel … Continue reading →

Kage Baker distrusted most technology as a matter of course. She gave her heart to those she did trust, trusting them as child trusts in the mysterious powers of her blankets when confronted with midnight monsters. They always worked; they … Continue reading →

Kage Baker liked museums.  What she liked, though, was art and cultural artifacts – nothing messy. She often said, regretfully, that she’d have loved to study archeology except that bones (except cardboard ones at Halloween) made her queasy … Me, … Continue reading →

Kage Baker – as is pretty well known – loved the Renaissance Pleasure Faire. And for her, there was only one: the event started in the 1970’s by Phyllis and Ron Patterson,  started more or less in an empty lot … Continue reading →

Kage Baker kept a big oak bookshelf by her desk. It didn’t hold her reference books. The ones she used most lived on the top of her desk; the others, for variable and different projects, stood in a mutable pile … Continue reading →

Kage Baker obsessed about things. She knew that, admitted it cheerfully and without guilt, and found many interesting ways to turn her obsessions into personal virtue. And she was faithful to her obsessions, just as much as she was to … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was acutely aware – or at least personally convinced – that the world saved itself up to interfere with her writing. Distractions, temptations, visitors, strange things floating by in the sky – they were all stockpiled by some … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was known for being a California writer. She took that as a great compliment, being very proud of her native species status here. As she said, she wrote a California product – boom or bust, feast or famine. … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved techno-toys. At the same time, she was suspicious of new technology; especially new tech designed to replace some piece of old tech with which she had a satisfying personal relationship. Our computers were always firmly set to … Continue reading →