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Christmas Doesn’t End On Christmas Day

Posted on December 28, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker was raised as a Roman Catholic (as was I), in the modern, 20th century tradition. In our cases, that meant 12 years of parochial school, church every Sunday, and a paucity of saints’ days in the liturgical calendar. … Continue reading →

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Two In A Row

Posted on December 22, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker, if she was aware of my writing efforts last night, must have been wringing her hands and cursing in frustration, Technology was never something she enjoyed dealing with, even when it was working correctly. Last night, it was … Continue reading →

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Personal Problems

Posted on June 22, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker did not personally suffer from writer’s block. Oh, she had times when the words did not come easily, or at all – on the rare occasions when that happened, she resorted to a number of strategies to trick … Continue reading →

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June 10, 2023

Posted on June 10, 2023 by Kate

Kage Baker was born on June 10th in the now-unbelievably primitive year of 1952. Today, she would have been 71 years old. Speaking of unbelievable, she would have found it hard to believe she had reached that advanced age. She … Continue reading →

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New Horizons In Fear

Posted on May 23, 2023 by Kate

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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Australia

Posted on May 21, 2023 by Kate

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The Cabinet of Wonder

Posted on May 12, 2023 by Kate

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.

Posted on May 11, 2023 by Kate

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

Posted on May 9, 2023 by Kate

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

Posted on May 7, 2023 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. Kage did not personally suffer from … Continue reading →

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