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September 6, 2022

Posted on September 6, 2022 by Kate

Kage Baker would be in white silk mode right now. It’s hot here in Los Angeles, and has been for nearly 2 weeks now. Triple digit days, and nights that only get down as far as 75 degrees just before … Continue reading →

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Self Indulgence

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Kate

Kage Baker sternly schooled herself to sit and write every day; in fact, most of every day and into the night. She didn’t always stop for meals – from experience, I recommend a desk with a pull-out self to one … Continue reading →

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The Immovable Object

Posted on August 17, 2022 by Kate

Kage Baker: my constant theme, the bedrock of my ramblings here. I spent most of yestreday in a delirium, wandering through some of our more chemically-dependent youth; today, I return to Kage. . Kage made most of her living, quite on … Continue reading →

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My Coffee

Posted on August 16, 2022 by Kate

Kage Baker was a fervent proponent of coffee. She liked tea in the proper circumstances, and loved the various rituals of the English tea ceremony, Her willingness to drink tea, however, was usually based heavily on what biscuits we had … Continue reading →

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Where Would We Be Now?

Posted on August 4, 2022 by Kate

Kage Baker liked to play games with reality. I suspect most writers do. It amuses them to to twist the Fields We Know in ways both subtle and glaring; to make the rest of us see what peculiar vistas they, … Continue reading →

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On Verges. No, Really, We are Teetering …

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Kate

Kage Baker placed great value on edges. She liked well-defined ones, blazoned forth in decorative carving or careful brushwork or the histories of rites so old the celebrants had forgotten the gods they once evoked.She liked the feeling of standing … Continue reading →

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Sit Down and Write

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Kate

Kage Baker was firm in her belief that, in order to be a writer, one must write. It hardly mattered what, she said, as long as you exercised those authorial muscles every single day. This is one of those classic … Continue reading →

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A Cabinet of Wonder

Posted on June 11, 2022 by Kate

Kage Baker liked lists. She made them all the time, from prosaic lists for groceries (though her grocery lists were rarely mundane) to royal jewels lost, found and/or cursed. She liked brainstorming. That was when we sat around in the … Continue reading →

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Today Is Kage’s Birthday

Posted on June 10, 2022 by Kate

Kage Baker would have been 70 years old today. I think she would have disliked it intensely, and it may be rude of me to point it out. However, folks continue to celebrate birthdays for many people who have been … Continue reading →

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Dinner, with the Sounds of War

Posted on February 23, 2022 by Kate

Kage Baker, like most people our age – middling-old folks, kids – grew up watching war on the telly over dinner. In our youngest days, it was watching The 20th Century with Walter Cronkite; it was pretty much a replay … Continue reading →

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