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New Horizons In Fear

Kage Baker initially tried for several years to get her work published sans agent. Not that she had anything against agents – she just didn’t know any, and was unsure how to acquire one. So she submitted work “over the … Continue reading

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Happy Mothers Day

Kage Baker celebrated Mothers Day as devotedly as any other person who had ever been a kid with a mother. Maybe more than some; she loved her mother very much. Mrs. Baker was an amazing sort of Southern Goddess, honey … Continue reading

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The Cabinet of Wonder

Kage Baker kept lists of needy wonders. Those were things that had supposedly vanished, but that she thought were probably still there – reduced in numbers but grown in canniness, and hiding out from Homo sapiens. There were also the … Continue reading

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Birds Are Singing. So Are Corgis.

Kage Baker did not like animals. She was adamant about it. I never saw her charmed by a dog, a cat or even a kitten. Not being charmed by a kitten is just … unnatural. She sneered when I told … Continue reading

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I Have A Little List

Kage Baker considered herself in the business of telling the future. In high school, she earned lunch money by telling Tarot cards for her classmates. There is probably no more susceptible audience for this than Catholic school girls – even … Continue reading

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Messages From The Recliner

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. Kage did not personally suffer from … Continue reading

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Happy Vernal Equinox

Kage Baker was perpetually surprised at the sheer numbers of people who liked her work. In high school, she was one of a circle of young literary hopefuls, who idolized our English teacher and wrote reams of questionable material that … Continue reading

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And So This Is Christmas

Kage Baker burned with a high, exhausted exhilaration by this time of the holiday cycle. The house pulsed with coloured lights and candles; we had all the goods for the Christmas feast, the tree grew more magnificent by the hour … Continue reading

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The Weather Has Finally Changed

Kage Baker loved Autumn. It wasn’t her favourite season – that was Summer, when she could happily live on the blazing edge of heat prostration, and try to transmute into a salamander. But she did enjoy Autumn, when she could … Continue reading

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