Talk:Kage Baker

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Should this still be marked as a stub? It seems reasonably complete given Ms. Baker's stature and the amount of information publicly available about her. It's probably too early in her career to add a section about themes in her work, for instance. --Jim Henry 21:55, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Heck if I know 2 Reviews 3 Agent? 4 sources 5 Um...TEESOL?

[edit] Heck if I know

I am just excited to find an article about her. Cyclopiano 10:26, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reviews

I've restored reviews deleted by User:TheRingess. Links to reviews are explicitly encouraged in Wikipedia articles about novelists. Cheers, Pete Tillman 18:46, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

My bad. Thanks for letting me know about that policy. TheRingess (talk) 19:09, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Agent?

The mention of her agent smacks of advertising. Are there any other author articles where the author's agent gets a mention?

[edit] sources

I'm able to confirm Ms. Baker's year and place of birth (1952, Hollywood) as well as place of residence (Pismo Beach) and venue of first publication (Asimov's 1997) from the back jacket copy of a hardback edition of Black Projects, White Nights. Does that count as a source? 64.142.37.232 01:14, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Most if not all of the facts on the page could be sourced to the biography and bibliography sections of Ms Baker's home page. Why is that not a sufficient source for this kind of article? --Jim Henry 12:59, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Um...TEESOL?

"Teaching Elizabethan English as a Second Language"...Huh?

That cries out for some sort of reference. --SandChigger 11:08, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

I might be able to scrounge something up from a convention program book bio. She gave a talk on Elizabethan English as a Second Language at Worldcon in 2004. --Jim Henry 12:57, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

That's OK. The hits from googling the phrase (in quotes) refer almost exclusively to Baker, so it appears to be her "thing".

While I can see teaching Elizabethan English to students majoring in the literature of the period, I can't see it having any relevance at all to my first-year agriculture and science/technology kids. --SandChigger 15:50, 17 July 2007 (UTC)