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Fun Fact #6 about Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space!

There are five 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 SIX:

Sensitivity editors are worth their weight in gold.

I was super lucky to have Robert Kingett, Eman Rimawi-Doster, and Christopher Jon Heuer work on this project with me. Their feedback was not only helpful but taught me things, too! It’s so great to learn from the perspectives of folks whose lived experience isn’t the same as mine. There is so much diversity among disabled, Deaf, and Blind folks too. All of our bodyminds are amazing.

While the characters in Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! don’t reflect every single experience, I wanted to show what a supportive, accepting community is like!

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I was so encouraged by the feedback of my beta readers and sensitivity editors. And it feels good to know that people want to live in Iris’s world and that they relate to the characters.

Book cover description: Four crew members of the SS SpoonZ and a robot stand on a planetary surface. The image of them is superimposed over a sky with swirling stars that features a ship whose hull looks like it’s shaped from spoons. The crew members from the right are Lieutenant Iris, who’s holding her white cane with the red stripe and has her other hand on the head of her aqua guidebot, Clarence; Security Chief Leanna Lartha is aiming a grey tubular weapon at something while smirking. She has two leg prostheses and one is glowing; Commander Davan waves a blue arm at Iris. He has a prominent trunk, which he also uses to communicate in his own language; And Mr. Herbert, Chief of Engineering, has his back to us while pointing to the sky.

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!

A greyscale close-up of me, standing in front of a blank background. I am a white woman with short silver hair cropped closely on the sides. I am wearing dark metallic rimmed glasses with rhinestones on the side. I’m wearing silver hook earrings with flat beads and a plaid shirt.

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).

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