• Pride and PEW-PEW-PEW!
• Iris and the Crew is available for pre-order at some locations!
• Mini-essay Monday: Our CripLit Village
• Nothing Without Us Too is a Prix Aurora Award Nominee!
• Mini-NonFic Monday: Processing Noise, Seeking Stillness
• Okay, I didn’t reach my CampNaNoWriMo goal, but I’m SO PROUD!
• Mini-NonFic Monday: Not A Horrible Day
• It’s Autism Awareness/Acceptance/Celebration Month, and I’m writing an autistic protagonist in my new WIP!
• Mini-novel Monday: I’m off Camping! Well, sort of.
• Mini-excerpt Monday: Episode 5 of Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space—read by me at Ephemera!
• Why I am a #Qwitter
• #CaitTacklesTBRPile: Segovia Stories, by Bernadette Gabay Dyer
• Voting is open to nominate works in the Prix Aurora Awards—and I have two works eligible this year!
• Mini-fiction Monday: With My Kind
• Lessons I have learned as an author human
• Subscribe to news!
• First reading ever of Iris and the Crew to happen live at ephemera on March 15, 2023!
• Mini-fiction Monday: Golden Infinity
• Writing preferences are not necessarily rules
• Mini-fiction Monday: Stretched Thin, Longing for the Deep
• I’m not nervous, YOU’RE nervous!
• Mini-Fiction Monday (a day late): Deliver Me From This Pandemic Hell
• Taking a big step back in order to go forward
• Mini-fiction Monday: We Together
• Needing a sensitivity editor doesn’t mean you’re an insensitive person.
• #CaitTacklesTBRPile—For All Time, by Shanna Miles
• A new year with new hopes!
• Goodbye 2022. Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out!
• Have a safe holiday season!
• Awards Eligibility 2022
• The freedom that comes from saying, “I can’t.”
• How Cosplaying a Barbie as Reva Sevander is Helping Me Through Childhood Trauma
• The Ableism and Privilege Behind “You Must Write Every Day”
• Happy Pride Month from this Watermelon!
• Obi-Wan Kenobi is the Mental Health Representation I Really Need Right Now
• Reclaiming Lazy
• Book acceptance! A new crew is coming in 2023!
• How to Avoid Being Accidentally Ableist in Your Writing
• It’s 2022! Still here, still queer—COVID’s a pain in my rear.
• The Wibbly-Wobbliness of Depression
• You beta believe I needed those readers!
• What the heck has Cait been doing???
• In the ’Cosm Podcast S1, Bonus Episode: How being “dissastified” can lead to a book series, with Bruce D. Gordon
• #CaitTacklesTBRPile—Sad, Black, and Fat: Musings from the Intersection by Tangela Williams-Spann
• Arr Ess Dee, A Poem
• The Great Equalizer Known as Receiving Submission Rejections
• I’ll be a panelist at the Weeknight Writers Exploring Story Structure Con on July 3!
• The Masks, A Poem
• #CaitTacklesTBRPile: Rear Admiral, by ’Nathan Burgoine and The Final Decree, by Jeffrey Ricker
• #CaitTacklesTBRPile: Entanglements, by Christina Robins
• In the ’Cosm Podcast S1, Ep6: The Artificial Divide Between the Blind and the Sighted, with Robert Kingett and Randy Lacey
• Accessibility in Worldbuilding panel video available now!
• How I Wrote Over 20K Words in April 2021
• I was interviewed by Ada Hoffman as part of their series about autistic authors, taking place this April!
• In the ’Cosm Podcast S1, Ep5: Diversity representation in fiction (and why Jackie Collins is awesome) with Christina Robins
• In the ’Cosm Podcast S1 Ep4: From A (as in seeking asylum) to Zee with Su J. Sokol
• I went to university for the second time, but not as a student…
• In the ’Cosm Podcast S1 Ep3: The mystery of Shakespeare’s authorship, writing through grief, and the importance of humour with Sue Taylor-Davidson
• I’m moderating a panel about Accessibility in Worldbuilding on Feb 20!
• The Power of Creativity and the Disabled Writing Community
• In the ’Cosm Podcast S1 Ep2: Space opera galore, worldbuilding, and character development with Stephen Graham King
• Dear authors of shorter fiction, a love note…
• In the ’Cosm Podcast S1 Ep1: Jamieson Wolf
• Once Upon a Flat (Flash Fiction)
• 2020, A Year I Examine With Hindsight
• Flash Fiction Challenge: November’s and December’s Results
• Ooo-la-ahhh… (Flash Fiction)
• Flash Fiction Challenge 2020: December
• Better to Believe…Fewer Mutants That Way
• Flash Fiction Challenge 2020: November
• DisArts and Mental Health
• Flash Fiction Challenge: October’s Results
• Apparently, we authors should have online press kits, so this is how I made mine!
• RenVCon 2020, Fall Edition is Oct 24-25. Registration is FREE, and I’ll be on two panels!
• Showdown Over the Somewhat-Okay Corral (Flash Fiction)
• I was interviewed by AE Science Fiction for my contribution to STARGAZERS: Microtales from the Cosmos!
• Flash Fiction Challenge 2020: October
• I’ll be moderating a panel about ableist terms and narratives in writing for RenVCon 2020, Fall Edition!
• Flash Fiction Challenge: September’s Results
• Sensitivity and Sensibility: Learning and Growing with Representation in Writing
• Troping the Light Fantastic (Flash Fiction)
• Pssst… I got interviewed by Derek Newman-Stille for SF Canada!
• It’s been very hard to Cait this year…
• Flash Fiction Challenge 2020: September
• Flash Fiction Challenge: July’s and August’s Results
• Tale of a Swirly Girly
• Reflection on my first award ceremony: There are no losers
• I’ll be at the Prix Aurora Awards and on a humour panel at When Words Collide this weekend!
• Flash Fiction Challenge 2020: August
• Sometimes Humour is Serious
• BOOK REVIEW: Cait Gordon’s The Stealth Lovers
• A Brick in the Bug
• Flash Fiction Challenge 2020: July
• I’ve had a short work of nonfiction published in Wordgathering’s June 2020 edition!
• Voting for the 2020 Prix Aurora Awards is now open!
• Flash Fiction Challenge: June Results
• Racism, Hate, and Abuse Are Not Welcome Here
• Flash Fiction Challenge 2020: June [UPDATE]
• I’m going to be a panelist at Renaissance’s Virtual Writers Con!
• Flash Fiction Challenge: May Results
• Ripping Through
• Nothing Without Us is a Prix Aurora Award Nominee! [UPDATED]
• Authors in Quarantine – Cait Gordon | Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
• Flash Fiction Challenge 2020: May
• My review: To Pluck a Crow, The Hands Behind Shakespeare’s Pen is so pluckin’ intriguing!
• Camp NaNoWriMo Day 30: Why I Feel Like a Winner
• FREE Virtual Writers Con, hosted by Renaissance Press! Apply now!
• My Writing Community Rescued Me Once Again
• Trying to Navigate Through 50 Shades of Meh
• Flash Fiction Challenge: April Results
• You feeling lucky, ’Punk?
• Won’t meet my Camp NaNoWriMo goal but will keeping writing!
• Flash Fiction Challenge 2020: April
• Iris and the Crew is underfoot!
• Cait Reads from Home: The Stealth Lovers
• Two Reviews in One Week? YAY!
• Camp NaNoWriMo? Sure.
• We’re in a pandemic situation. This is how I’m doing.
• Flash Fiction Challenge: March Results
• The Trim Reaper
• Nothing Without Us and The Stealth Lovers can be nominated for the 2020 Prix Aurora Awards!
• Flash Fiction Challenge 2020: March
• Writing groups should be supportive, not a bunch of soul-crunching bullies.
• I’m 50, and I play with Barbies. Okay, I cosplay with Barbies.
• 2020 Flash Fiction Challenge: February Results
• A Quest in the Dark
• My review: In the Shadow of the Spire is a much-needed Star Wars story
• Flash Fiction Challenge 2020: February
• My review: Run J Run is a “Read Now!” Read
• A Disabled/ Deaf/ Neurodivergent Crew Tears Through Space
• The Dark Side of WriterWorldLand
• 2020 Flash Fiction Challenge: January Results
• Pressing On
• Nothing Without Us is included in a book review about authentic disability representation!
• Space Opera Libretti has landed!
• Flash Fiction Challenge 2020: January
• Nothing Without Us is going to university!
• My review: Faux Ho Ho restored my faith in holiday romance stories!
• My review: Love and Lemonade, by Jamieson Wolf
• Snowed in, Blown Away!
• The first three chapters of The Stealth Lovers are on Wattpad!
• Flash Fiction Challenge 2020: Wanna write with me?
• Last weekend, I fell in love with Glad Day Bookshop!
• Taking Time Out to Smell the Pages
• Even Funny People Get Pissed Off
• Calling for a Disbanding of Cliques and the Culture of Fear
• Cover Reveal for Space Opera Libretti
• No More NaNoWriMo—I’m Calling ‘Self-Care’
• Why I’m so done with writers putting themselves down—me included.
• Toronto Book Launch of Run J Run, Nothing Without Us, and The Stealth Lovers
• How It Feels to Have Two Titles in the Same Year, Published at the Same Time
• I’ll be at Can*Con 2019, doing stuff!
• The Hilltop Gathering will be the subject of an academic paper, presented this November!
• Noola schooled me in ’Cosm. Xax did in The Stealth Lovers!
• Update: Here’s where you can buy The Stealth Lovers and Nothing Without Us!
• NaNoWriMo 2019: I’m taking the plunge again!
• Masking: The Fine Art of Faking Being Neurotypical
• The Ottawa Launch of The Stealth Lovers is Imminent!
• When It Hurts to Hug
• Official Book Trailer for The Stealth Lovers and Pre-order info!
• Holy stars, I did a thing!
• Why I Should Listen to Madona More Often
• Holy Aurora! I’ve some Franken-news!
• Oh, what the hay? Here’s the full-colour cover reveal for The Stealth Lovers.
• What To Do When You’re Not Writing Enough
• A Healthy Pride Can Be Motivational
• Okay, the cat’s out of the bag!
• Did you pick up on the Easter eggs in Life in the ‘Cosm?
• Why there’s going to be a second edition of Life in the ’Cosm
• Cover design for The Stealth Lovers is happening!
• I feel like the “It’s” guy from Monty python…
• I think editing an anthology is like being pregnant.
• I took a March break for self-care. Here’s what I learned.
• I have two short stories that are eligible for a Prix Aurora Awards nomination!
• I’m still alive, honest!
• Good news, everyone!
• It’s almost mid-January and I haven’t posted yet!
• Hey, wait a sec, 2018 was a great year!
• We Shall Be Monsters is now available!
• Broom Chicka-Wow-Wow
• My 2018 List of “You-Gotta-Read Them” Books
• The Space Opera Libretti call for submissions got me writing again!
• Okay, I’m done. But don’t worry—I’m happy about it.
• To NaNo or not to NaNo? That is the question.
• The Stealth Lovers will be published by Renaissance!
• Call for Submissions—Nothing Without Us anthology
• Managing the Dumpster Fire of Life
• I’ll be at Can-Con 2018!
• Crossing My Path
• WIP Wars: I have made a decision!
• To Get to the Other Side
• BOING, BOING, BOING! Having Multiple WIPs on the Go
• Can Also, a poem
• Announcement: New WIP
• Never Mind the Nasties, Stay Awesome
• When There’s a Ghost of a Chance
• Why My Second Book Will Have More Editors
• Back from staycay!
• I suck at Mystery. Dam it.
• Getting Stuck After a Trigger
• Forsooth!
• I reckon I beta write a post about The Stealth Lovers!
• The Ale-ing Brothers
• Anthology Kickstarter: We Shall Be Monsters (Or, as I call it: The Frankenthology)
• WONDERful
• It Began and Ended with a NaNoWriMo
• I’ll be at the Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland launch in Ottawa!
• Sensitivity editing is not censorship—it’s about respect.
• The Thing About Virj
• Ye Filthy Rat
• I’ve gone camping! To Camp NaNoWriMo, that is.
• Writing Is Never a Waste of Time
• The Author’s Journey hosts Cait Gordon
• I Won’t Fogget About You
• Writing Goals: Yup, I got ’em!
• I’ll be in Alice Unbound!
• An Immoral Compass
• The Stealth Lovers, A Prequel (Teaser Trailer)
• Asking for Reader Feedback: Scary but Awesome
• My manuscript and I need to sneak away together!
• Choosing ‘The Funny’ While Managing Anxiety
• Truth Be Told
• To my fans, readers, fellow authors, and those who tolerate me…
• Am I an author or just an innocent bystander?
• Life in My Microcosm: Cait G’s Top Ten Books of 2017!
• “Winning” NaNoWriMo as a Spoonie
• Day 15 of NaNoWriMo 2017: Yoikes and Away!
• Eight days into NaNoWriMo, and I’m okay, folks!
• Help, help, I can’t stop writing!
• The Hope Light – A Poem
• Steps (A Poem)
• New web-exclusive content!
• #CanConCold2017, but still, I had a blast!
• Dedicated to my crappy husband
• The healing power of . . . cosplay?
• I’ll be at Can-Con 2017!
• How I done gone lost my mind, also known as, I’m trying NaNoWriMo this year!
• I’ll be at the Ottawa Geek Market on Saturday September 30, 1-6 pm!
• Cycling to Asylum: A Plausible Future?
• Poem: Invisible
• Writing with Awareness and Sensitivity
• I’ll be a panellist at Can-Con 2017!
• My Top-Ten Favourite Reader Comments on Life in the ´Cosm
• Picking Up a WIP After Life Got in the Way
• So long, Chromebook. Hello, MacBook Pro!
• The Reluctant Barbarian: Brilliantly Funny
• Soul’s Blood: A Space Opera with a Triad of Awesomeness
• Life in Another ’Cosm: Jinny from the Blog
• Canadian Writers: Cait Gordon—Interview by Kirsten McNeill
• I’m cishet and I write queer characters, but not without help.
• Tremontaine: binge-worthy and full of chocolate!
• What the hay? I’ll write about the thirteenth Doctor Who, too.
• I’ll be at Queer Between the Covers!
• In Memoriam: A lifetime or two within a short story
• I’m Writing like Lady and The Tramp Eat Spaghetti
• Can’t sleep; the works-in-progress are gonna eat me.
• Five-star review of ’Cosm by author S.M. Carrière!
• Representation matters.
• Um, peeps without disabilities, we need to talk.
• Why Every Author Needs Neil Armstrong
• When to Listen to and When to Ignore Writing Advice
• I’ll be at the Limestone Genre Expo!
• My First Week with Noola
• I’ll be at Ottawa Comiccon 2017
• My New Wheels!
• Making a Living: More Potent than a Toxic Beetle
• Life in the ’Cosm and the Aurora Awards
• Am I too old for cosplay?
• Are you genre non-binary?
• Author Appearance: Ottawa Geek Market
• Adventures in Short Fiction!
• I smell like two people! Or, how I write sex scenes.
• Review of Life in the ’Cosm, by Author Jamieson Wolf
• Beyond the cupcake.
• WRITE EVERY DAY! Or not.
• Are you a procrasti-writer?
• What I’ve Discovered about Writing Short Stories for Competitions
• My First Time in a Wheelchair
• Breast Lump, the Sequel: The Black Hole
• The judgy Ovum known as Splot.
• Breast Lump: The Sequel
• This Googly Author’s Journey toward iOS
• The boingy-haired nuisance who’s Noola Quirk.
• Everyone’s writing, and I’m all like…
• The ‘everyman’ who’s Virj Ofreesin.
• Infertile in body, fertile of mind.
• An Unusual Symbiosis: How My OCD and I Have Learned to Work Together
• Meet the author and the crafty-pants!
• When it’s okay not to be okay
• Writing the first draft, the second time.
• Fun ‘Cosm Fact: a sentient houseplant and homemaker
• Fun ‘Cosm Fact: I was a tech writer, too!
• Fun ‘Cosm Fact: Um, why all the dessert?
• Fun ‘Cosm Fact: The Krystal Tower
• Fun ‘Cosm Facts: Virj’s mug
• Fun ‘Cosm Fact: Noola Quirk
• Fun ‘Cosm Fact: The Unexpected Amulet
• If I’m an author, why am I doodling a comic strip?
• Sexy and disabled. Yes, you can be both.
• Using ‘they’ as a singular pronoun
• Why I write in the comedy genre
• Reader feedback on Life in the ‘Cosm: Oct 6, 2016
• Comic strip!
• Writing with a chronic illness.
• Losing Faith and Loving Emma: sharing in two siblings’ grief
• Multi-Author Monster Launch!
• I lost my second (or third) virginity at Can*Con 2016!
• My first-ever public reading is imminent. Can*Con approaches!
• I feel like the It’s Guy from Monty Python
• The biggest obstacle to getting published?
• Human, A Shadows Empires Book: left me enthralled
• That Time I Got a Publishing Contract
• A Light Bulb Went on at Ottawa Comicon
• Insecurity, Thy Name is Writer
• Mastering the Art of Writing Badly
• The Loneliness of Being Not-yet Published
• I’m not crazy, I’m waiting to hear from the publisher!
• The Book Synopsis, or, Kill Me Now
• The Noob Writes, A Silly Poem
• I surrender, I surrender! (When you need to stop editing.)
• Fibromyalgia: how that diva and I get along
• Journey of a Thousand Steps: high-tech, intrigue, Ottawa
• What I learned about self-editing
• I lost my virginity at Ottawa PopExpo!
• Happy Soberversary tooooo meee!
• Am I published yet? Five ways to cope with waiting for responses to your queries.
• 10 things I did to get my manuscript ready for submission
• 5 Signs I’m Going Through Pitch Wars
• The Accidental Writer
• The Puddle & Gosling: Charming fantasy tale about “baristing” in Scuddy Corners
• What Happens in Book Club: Saucy, sexy, and so much fun!
• Why can’t I read anyone else? Or, how I’m having an affair with my book.
• Terri Skuce, Canadian Poet, gives me feedback on ‘Cosm
• I’m afraid for my Ma’s health. MEDIC!
• No, really, get an editor.
• People are reading my book. REAL PEOPLE! *bites nails*
• A Love Note to My Friends
• Incorporating Redlines, or, How I Want to Punch Myself in the Face
• Editing really, really bad words. Really.
• My first reading. Sort of.
• Up next: Beta-reader draft!
• The First Draft Dance of Joy!
• Listen to your book. Literally.
• What really matters to me as a writer
• My novel is no longer in its teens!
• Misadventures in smartwatching
• We interrupt the writing of this novel to bring you this message
• 25 Years Sober!
• Cait Becomes Gandalf
• Help, help, my writing is crap!!!
• 17 Chapters, 73 000 words, and counting!
• Do authors have multiple personalities? Asking for a friend.
• Writer’s log: I think I’m half-way done
• My cyber reading buddy
• Writing tool for a Google gal
• Warrior Princess!
• Writer’s cramp