Cait Gordon's Blog, page 36

My First Week with Noola

After years of needlessly suffering, I finally bought a rollator, which is a walker with a seat and wheels. I named it Noola, after the feisty character in Life in the ‘Cosm. Fellow author Jamieson Wolf said he was glad I named it that because, as he stated, “Noola would roll!” Noola and I have been […]

I’ll be at Ottawa Comiccon 2017

Look for me at the Renaissance table on Friday May 12, 2017 at Ottawa Comiccon, from 1-5 pm, selling Life in the ’Cosm and other awesome books. I’ll be floating around all weekend, too. Follow my Instagram to see what I’m up to! So stoked! /cg Cait Gordon is author of Life in the ’Cosm, a story […]

My New Wheels!

Because I am a published author, there are conferences I must attend for learning and for self-promotion. I want to go to these things. And with this rollator, I can! Always having a seat with me is an enormous thing. Last year at Can*Con 2016, people suggested I sit on a window sill while waiting in line for a panel. That was a solution, I guess, but not a very good one. Also, I kinda hate asking people for chairs all the time. It's going to be nice to just chill and be independent.

Making a Living: More Potent than a Toxic Beetle

How am I supposed to resist reading a book that begins with, “When Nathan came to, the dead girl was crying. He was relatively sure she wasn’t supposed to do that.”? Let me explain the title of this review. Last Thursday while I was taking a walk and about to take a sip of juice, […]

Life in the ’Cosm and the Aurora Awards

“It’s a pleasure to be nominated.” That’s supposed to be the go-to line for awards nights, when people don’t win. But you know what? It is super cool to be possibly eligible for a 2017 Prix Aurora Award in the Novel Category. Because I wrote a book! With words in it and everything! There are a lot […]

Am I too old for cosplay?

Spoiler: nope. Once upon a time, I was not a Child of the Enlightened. Yes, there was a period in my life where I didnae understand cosplay or cosplayers. I didn’t even know it was called cosplay. I refer to my ignorance as The Dark Times. Then in the fall of 2015 at the tender age of 45, […]

Are you genre non-binary?

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. […]

Author Appearance: Ottawa Geek Market

Ottawa Geek Market Saturday April 1, 1-6 pm Sunday April 2, 2017, 1-4 pm Nepean Sportsplex, 1701 Woodroffe Avenue I’ll be cosplaying as Hannah from Rat Queens on Saturday April 1, and will be at the Renaissance table selling and signing books! On Sunday I’ll be cosplaying as a Vulcan and sitting at the Ladies […]

Adventures in Short Fiction!

Well, it’s an adventure for me, anyway. In January I wrote my first short story for a competition and blogged about it. It was super fun trying to write in my genre of Silly (trademark pending), but with a limited word count. Two thousand words are not 120 000 words, that’s for sure. Still, I felt pretty […]

I smell like two people! Or, how I write sex scenes.

Relax, all you authors and writers of erotica; your jobs are safe. Nobody will accuse me anytime soon of trying to steal your thunder. Not by a long shot. This week I confessed to my publisher that no matter what genre I try to write in, everything comes out silly. I said, “I think my […]