Fun Fact #4 about Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space!
There are seven more sleeps until the official release date of Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! This is the first book in my new disability hopepunk space opera series! Learn more about it on the book description page!
As I count down, I thought it would be fun to share one fact a day about the book and my journey writing it!
FUN FACT NUMBER FOUR:
Cait Gordon
I used to doodle and sketch a ton, ever since I was a wee thing. I was always drawing.
But my disability makes it difficult for my fingers to fing, and I had a notion that I wanted illustrations for every episode of Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space!
So, I bought a tablet with a pencil and did my best. I assumed Nathan from Renaissance would redraw them, but he was so encouraging!
The figures and ship on the cover and all the episode sketches were drawn by me!
For me, the Apple Pencil is like accessible tech because I don’t have to press as hard to draw. It’s been fun to create illustrations again. I even did the cover of Captain Maven and the Shadow Man, by Jamieson Wolf! And I have a draft cover for Hot Wings and Sauciness (my upcoming awkward space opera romance nobody asked for.)
The official release date is September 15, but you can pre-order the paperback today from many booksellers (and ask indie bookshops near you) and pre-order the paperback and ebook right from Renaissance, my publisher!
Cait Gordon is an autistic, disabled, and queer Canadian writer of speculative fiction that celebrates diversity. She is the author of Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space (2023). Cait also founded the Spoonie Authors Network and joined Talia C. Johnson to co-edit the multi-genre, disability fiction anthologies Nothing Without Us (a 2020 Prix Aurora Award finalist) and Nothing Without Us Too (a 2023 Prix Aurora Award winner).
