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Cait Gordon ♿️

@caitgauthor.bsky.social

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Disabled, autistic, and queer. Award-winning author of the disability-hopepunk adventure, Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! Award-winning co-editor of the disability fiction anthology, Nothing Without Us Too. I also like cake. (She/her) 🇨🇦

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · Sep 2

Searching for #SFF reads with #Disability and #LGBTQIA representation? I wrote or edited these!

- Speculative Shorts, books2read.com/spec-shorts

- Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space, books2read.com/iatcS1

- Nothing Without Us, books2read.com/nwu

-Nothing Without Us Too, books2read.com/nwutoo

- sapphic rebel pilot fights eugenics
- disability utopia
- "silent" mermaid-siren enviro activist
- teen alien hacker "does time"
- autistic superhero
- emotional support dragon
- nonbinary Alice in Wonderland
And so much more!

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- accessibility is the norm
- defying ableist pirates
- found family
- PEW-PEW-PEW
- principle cast is queer and disabled
- unbreakable friendships
- full of humour
- winner of the 2023 Indie Ink Award for disability representation!

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- disabled protagonists written by disabled creatives
- emotional support golem
- vampire CroneLit romance
- accessible mech
- snarky humour
- ghost defies gaslighter
- Deaf and HoH detectives
Finalist of the 2020 Prix Aurora Award for Best Related work!

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- disabled protagonists written by disabled creatives
- disabled community innn spaace
- ND convenience store worker defies vampire
- timeloops
- sensory nightmare hotel
- support CORVID
- Martian fishing holes
- winner of a 2023 Prix Aurora Award for Best Related work!

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you!

Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 23h

My short story, “Bev the Hacker Does Time,” is a 2025 Indieverse Awards nominated work! Voting starts on November 7. In the meantime, you can find this work on my website. It first appeared in Laughs in Space and is now in Speculative Shorts! #SFF #IndieverseAwards

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BEV THE HACKER DOES TIME
A SHORT STORY BY CAIT GORDON

A teen girl begins community service at a seniors residence after hacking the intragalactic network to route all sexy searches to display laxative commercials.
But for some weird reason, there doesn't seem to be any "old people" anywhere!

A 2025 INDIEVERSE AWARDS NOMINEE IN THE CATEGORY: BEST
ANTHOLOGY, COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, OR SHORT WORK FICTION!

There’s a cartoon of a blue alien with blue hair and goggles wearing baggy blue overalls. She’s holding onto a mop that’s inside a bucket.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Kate helped me recognize one of these emails too. Check out her newsletter! #WriteSky

Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 1d

Today's newsletter is about the patterns in fake book club and other scam emails sent to authors.

How to spot an author scam email

I’ve grumbled enough on social media about the rise in AI-generated scam emails that now, more than one of my author friends has sent an email to me, asking...

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SFF Reviews @sffreview.bsky.social · 3d

This sounds amazing! 🎉 I love a good mix of humor and heart in SFF, especially with diverse representation! Can't wait to check it out! 📚✨ #SpeculativeFiction #QueerLit

Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Hey, readers in the US and UK! Like spec fic with queer and disability representation, humour, mentions of cake, and an emotional support dragon?

My short story collection, Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain, is available on Bookshop! #BookSky #SFF

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Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain

Stories that fell out of my brain

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Oh thank you so much, Laura!!!

Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 4d

I want to be comforted by my own sense of humour. So, I’m reviewing my first draft of Hot Wings and Sauciness, and it feels good to laugh despite the stresses all around me. #SpoonieAuthChat

Spoonie Authors Network @spoonieauthnet.bsky.social · 4d

Spoonie Author Chat (for creatives who manage spoons), October 7, 2025:

What is motivating you to write these days?

(Please quote-post and add #SpoonieAuthChat to your replies!)

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain

Stories that fell out of my brain

bookshop.org

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, I hear that! #SpoonieAuthChat

Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 4d

I like that!

Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, I like the idea about blogging about it. Because that’s also writing!

Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Nice! 😊

Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 4d

I’m push-deficient!

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 4d

I ran out of push!

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 4d

That’s kinda me as well. I need to do something else to self-regulate.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 4d

I composed this question when feeling supremely overwhelmed. So it has “asking for a friend” energy.

It’s me. I’m the friend.

What do you folks do? #SpoonieAuthChat

Spoonie Authors Network @spoonieauthnet.bsky.social · 5d

Spoonie Author Chat (for creatives who manage spoons), October 6, 2025:

How do you manage feelings of overwhelm, so you can settle down to writing?

(Please quote-post and add
#SpoonieAuthChat to your replies!)

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 6d

We’re back home for now. I need about a million hours of rest.

Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!

Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks, bru!

Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!

Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 7d

Holy moly. It’s been a wild ride since we had to rush to our hometown for a family member who was rushed to hospital. Thankfully, today was a much better day. If I’m slow to reply, it’s just because I’m exhausted.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you!!!

Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 10d

Yay!

Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 10d

And if it comes true, you, Talia, and I will have “Cake and Bitch” venting parties!

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 10d

Hahaha! I still have a dream of moving to Toronto!

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you, Charlie!