Author Archives: Kate

Kage Baker would be making sacrifices by now. She’d be filling glass vessels with ice and sea water and shards of blue glass, hoping for a weather change. The summer heat will not end. I once suggested to her we … Continue reading →

Kage Baker used to have to wedge her research into the narrow spaces between her fits of active writing. Usually, in fact, she had to re-arrange her schedule to cram some research space in at all; she’d triage her information … Continue reading →

Kage Baker. Heat breaking, wind cooling, leaves turning and falling and lying like lace on the parts of the lawn that survived the summer onslaught. Swallows yielding place to the bats of an evening, fewer and slower crickets, rose hips … Continue reading →

Kage Baker habitually ran North when things were difficult. Not tangible things, things she could work on and solve; not the sorts of things that would yield to A Plan. She ran from the foggy things, that cheat and won’t … Continue reading →

Kage Baker loved autumn. So do I. And if it ever gets here, I will be a lot happier and more active. But in the meantime … the heat came back, the humidity has risen to 35%, and I am … Continue reading →

Kage Baker told me many times – usually while coaxing me to drive off in to the North on some fascinating new road – that sometimes you have to put off writing in order to live something amazing. Thus you … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was a devoted researcher. Obsessive is not too strong a word to use when describing her devotion to topics that interested her. Some of these topics were short-term, the sources and results of research for stories. When Kage … Continue reading →

Kage Baker was fascinated by the Neanderthals. Her initial introduction to them was via cartoons and comics. Walt Kelly dealt with “cave men” in several strips and books (notably Prehysterical Pogo), which featured lots of grunting, head scratching brutes with … Continue reading →