I know, right? WHEEEE!!! I'm so excited that the folks who believed in Life in the ’Cosm have also agreed to take on The Stealth Lovers, which is the origin story of Xax and Viv. We learned from ’Cosm that these two warriors were also known as a formidable duo called The Stealth, but …
Continue reading The Stealth Lovers will be published by Renaissance!
Okay, I have been converted. As one who once staunchly objected to NaNoWriMo, I get it now. It's a really good motivator. At least for me. I was in such a rut last year with personal stuff and couldn't get out of my own head. All I could manage were short stories. The sequel to …
Well, whaddaya know? I said I wouldn’t do NaNoWriMo again (after I’d completed my first in 2017 and actually hit the 50,000 word goal), but guess what? I’m baaaack! It just happens that I am on a two-month break from my freelance editing day job. I needed time to regroup and refresh, but also to …
Continue reading I’ve gone camping! To Camp NaNoWriMo, that is.
Hey! It's March and once again time for ’Nathan Burgoine's super-fun 2018 Flash Fiction Challenge. This month we had to write a romance that takes place in a fire watch tower, and we had to include VHS tapes in the story. Here's my entry: I Won't Fogget About You *** — What’s that thing? The Buckle …
Parts 1 and 2 of The Stealth Lovers have been drafted. I’ve begun Part 3 and am loving this story. I hope you will, too. I’ll keep you posted as to the progress and eventual publication of the book. Cheers! ~ Cait G.
Wow. I had no idea Viv was anything like that at 19. Never saw it coming! The quote above is not a beta-reader’s comment about my work-in-progress of The Stealth Lovers. Those are my words. Yeah, I know. But, but, but … how can an author react like this when she's the one writing the story? Beats me, …
Continue reading Am I an author or just an innocent bystander?
Truth be told, I thought perhaps there was something wrong with author Caroline Fréchette. They kept enthusiastically going on and on and on about some book called Tremontaine, insisting that we all read it. Finally, not wanted to incur Caro's eyebrows of wrath, I bought the eBook version. And now, after reading it, I can say …
Continue reading Tremontaine: binge-worthy and full of chocolate!
Some people can write a tome and not really tell a decent story, but then authors like ’Nathan Bourgoine can create an entire lifetime—or two—in a short work of fiction that cuts right to the soul. In Memoriam follows the story of James, an editor who has just been given a diagnosis that will debilitate and …
Continue reading In Memoriam: A lifetime or two within a short story
That's not a typo in the title of this post. This term is the ingenious brainchild of my best friend, educator and activist for transgender rights, Talia C. Johnson. (Btw, her blog is brilliant, so follow it!) Yesterday I finished the first draft of my third and final short story for the winter-spring anthology season. …
I met Alexis James on Twitter and when I discovered she was such a lovely person, I wanted to support her by purchasing her books. Well, I started backward and bought Loving Emma before Losing Faith, but she said it was okay, because each book stands on its own. (Each one really does, too!) Both of these stories …
Continue reading Losing Faith and Loving Emma: sharing in two siblings’ grief
Cait Gordon—author and editor 