iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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

On this day, let’s commit even more to honour the people who were here for thousands of years before the white settlers came, and to support the works of Indigenous folks and listen to every one of their voices, so we can acknowledge the truth that will lead us on the right path to reconciliation.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I do! Colleen from Hot Wings and Sauciness is autistic (neurosaucy?), and the entire book is from her POV! Herb and Gerri from Iris and the Crew are written as autistic (I put a lot of me into them). Although, I could argue that many of the characters are neurofabulous. #SpoonieAuthChat

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Reina (she/her) @reinamwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

*raises hand*

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Jesse – Rainbow Pen Editing @rainbowpenediting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hello #SpoonieAuthChat I'm neurodivergent (AuDHD), although sometimes I feel more neurodisastrous than neurofabulous. But hey, why not both?🕺I could be a fabulous disaster.

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Michele O. Slider 🦋 @micheleos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Definitely ADHD, elementary school teachers had me pegged on that right away. Probably autistic too. A host of other comorbitities that have waxed and waned over the years. #SpoonieAuthChat

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Me, me, me! I’m ND! (Hey, that rhymes.) Fun fact: The word neurofabulous is in the title of my memoirs-in-essays WIP! I’m autistic and manage OCD! I think I have other neurofabulousness too! I also like exclamation points! #SpoonieAuthChat

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

First time on the new deck! It’s just gorgeous outside today.

Our new wood deck, featuring my feet! There are some hanging baskets as well.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Was feeling low this morning, then I had this thought: “Gosh, depression is depressing.” Um. Follow me for mental health breakthroughs?

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Are you ever hard on yourself because you just can’t do all the things? Asking for a friend. It’s me. I’m your friend.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That thing where you know you’re making the right decision to do essential renovations, yet you want to hold a funeral for the loss of your finances? That. (Oh well. I baked brownies.)

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fresh out of the oven! Gluten-free chocolate black bean fudge (with zucchini)! This is the recipe I followed; my.diabetescarecommunity.ca/print_recipe...

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As part of my celebrating ten years as an author, my new romance innn spaaace, Hot Wings and Sauciness, is only 1.99USD on Smashwords from today through September 30! Get it while it’s hot and saucy! #Disability #Romance for the win! #SpoonieAuthChat #BookSky www.smashwords.com/books/view/2...

Book cover description: Brown background with coloured smoke. A white man with silver hair who is wearing a flight suit with wings on the shoulders is trying not to laugh at a woman with short grey hair who is sitting, looking bored, and wearing a chicken costume. On the table is a sign that reads: All you can eat at Coq of the walk! Behind her are three beautiful women who are dressed like models, standing at another table that has a large wings basket on it.

Additional text says: On sale for 1.99 USD on Smashwords now through Sep 30!

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A6: If you want to laugh your ass off and cheer for my autistic, disabled, and sweary FMC, then get Hot Wings and Sauciness, featuring the meet-awkward of the 25th century! Available now in paperback and ebook. It’s on KoboPlus too! books2read.com/hot-wings-and-sauciness #WeeknightWriters

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A4: Not beat myself up because I can’t do all the things. #WeeknightWriters

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A3: So, I had a book signing last Saturday for Hot Wings and Sauciness. I did sell some books but then @jamiesonwolf.com and his hubby Michael came into the store with this huge orchid for me! I was so gobsmacked! I love orchids! #WeeknightWriters

I’m standing at my author table. To my left is a very tall purple orchid

Close-up above the orchid with about a dozen or so huge purple blossoms

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A2: Yeah, I’ve been struggling with having too much on my plate again. I had to cancel a reading in Montreal. I’m sad about that, but it’s the right thing to do. I have a conference in November where I’m one of the special guests, so I need to rest. #WeeknightWriters

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A1: Holy moly, my mental health has not been healthy. I got a stern reminder from my brain that I’m still not fully recovered from burnout. But I’m in my comfy Green Bay nightgown now (because football AND cheese), resting on a comfy couch. #WeeknightWriters

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hi, #WeeknightWriters! I’m the extremely late Cait Gordon! My WIP is all growed up and out in the world! Hot Wings and Sauciness! My writing is on pause because I’m in there between projects mode now.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sharing because I need to remember this too.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My copy of The Fiddlehead’s #Disability: The Revolution arrived yesterday. On page 170 is Matthew D. Del Papa’s review of my short story collection, Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain My name is pronounced like Cat, so I love the review title, “Curiously Elevates This Cait.”

Cover of the anthology, which is a pencil drawing of a woman lying on a bed with her arm across her forehead, while a cat sleeps beside her

A photograph of the page that shows the review

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you liked Security Chief Lartha from Season One; Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space, then thank Eman Rimawi-Doster! Why? Find out in Episode 39 of her podcast, “My So-Called Disabled Life!” #Disability #BookSky wp.me/p5J2LK-4Yw

A photo of me, a white woman with short silver hair and teal-rimmed glasses, with the Episode 39 title. A photo of Eman, the host and producer of the podcast, who is a biracial woman with curly brown-black hair, light brown skin, and glasses. We’re both smiling in the photos.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just feel so dismayed whenever generative AI features are introduced on platforms. (Today, it was Draft2Digital informing me about “digital narrators through Spotify.) This just confirms to me that I will take the encouragement from a former publisher and be the narrator of my own audiobooks.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you’re in the US or Canada, and you want to buy Hot Wings and Sauciness while supporting your local indie bookshops, then click the SHOP LOCAL button on the page at this link and search with your postal/zip code! bookmanager.com/brow... Thanks for choosing Disability Romance innn spaace!

Image says: Supporting indie bookstores is HOT!

There’s also a photo of a stack of my books, spines out.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you get an email from me with an electronic invitation, just delete it. (I got one from a friend.) I don’t know if it’s gonna happen, but I just thought I’d give folks a heads up.

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

have you picked up my nebula award-winning book? it's a spooky queer tween fantasy novel about a girl who can see ghosts on an adventure with her sister, a dragon and a ghost. 🌈📚 #IndieBooks #fantasy #kidlit #booksky books2read.com/u/b6J2E0 vriccithode.itch.io/the-young-ne...

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh my freaking heart, WHAT A GAME! Thank you, Green Bay, for listening to what I was screaming at the TV!

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So, I love taking care plants. Whether indoors or outside in the garden. This little hibiscus is my first successful cutting I’ve propagated from the parent plant! I talk to it every day!

Little plant with sturdy leaves in a teal pot.

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dinsdale press @dinsdalepress.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hot Wings and Sauciness is #26 on Amazon Canada in the "Fiction on People with Disabilities" category! Thank you!

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think it’s an interesting coincidence that on the year I discovered I’m not dairy intolerant after all, and brought cheese back into my life, I also decided to return to watching NFL and am following Green Bay! Go Packers!

I’m wearing a oversized, Green Bay Packers jersey and giving a two thumbs up

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Photos from the book signing today. Note the huge orchid in the second photo. It was a gift from @jamiesonwolf.com and his hubby Michael! I was gobsmacked! It was a lovely afternoon!

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All set up at Evermore Books, 857B Bank Street, Ottawa. I’ll be here between 1-3pm! Buy copies of Hot Wings and Sauciness, and I’ll happily sign them. I have pins too!

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

TODAY’S THE DAY! Hot Wings and Sauciness is officially out in paperback format! And if you’re in Ottawa, I’ll be at Evermore Books (857B Bank Street) from 1-3pm, signing copies! You can find the paperback and ebook through many online sellers. Ask your local indie bookstore to order it for you!

Promo showing that I’ll be signing copies at Evermore Books!

A large stack of paperbacks of Hot Wings and Sauciness, spines forward

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was interviewed in Apt613 by the lovely Kimberly Lemaire! She read Hot Wings and Sauciness, so we spoke about that and about my being a disabled and neurodivergent creative! #SpoonieAuthChat apt613.ca/creating-wit...

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Creating with disability: An interview with Cait Gordon – Apartment613

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One more sleep until the paperback release of Hot Wings and Sauciness! Here’s fun fact number 6! #Disability #Romance

FUN FACT #6:

I ABSOLUTELY FELL IN LOVE WITH THE DYNAMIC BETWEEN
"SAUCY" COLLEEN AND CAPTAIN "HOT WINGS" SPEERS. IT STARTS OUT SO BADLY THEN TURNS INTO SOMETHING PRETTY DARNED WONDERFUL.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Making some “hot” and “saucy” pins for my author table. My icon of a wing sauce bottle reminds me of a bottle of craft glue. Um. I hope folks are glued to the page? Oh well. They’re fun!

A bunch of small pins. One is orange-red and has the word HOT in white letters and some flames underneath. The other is pink with a brown bottle icon.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My morning has been interesting. I said on threads that a racist advert was racist, and someone called me the R-word. Classy.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Clap for me! I got an email from a fancy editor with an AOL account! I must be heading for the big time now!!! 🙄

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m noticing some book recommendations with “older” characters coming across my IG. And the characters are in their mid-thirties! 😳 Am I like Rose from Titanic?

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It's Been 84 Years Meme - Titanic Lady

ALT: It's Been 84 Years Meme - Titanic Lady

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Two more sleeps until the paperback release of Hot Wings and Sauciness! Here’s fun fact number 5! #Disability #Romance

FUN FACT #5:
I ORIGINALLY WASN'T GOING TO MAKE IT A "LATER LIFE" ROMANCE, BUT COLLEEN O'DONNELL IS THE SWEARY, POST-MENOPAUSAL, AUTISTIC, AND DISABLED HEROINE I REALLY WANTED ON THE PAGE!

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On the one hand, I would really love to be a keynote speaker. On the other hand, considering my disability, I think I’d rather be a keynote napper. Just encourage everybody to take a nap with me. It’s a Spoonie thing. We could use the rest.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Made some stickers for my author table! I’ll be signing copies of Hot Wings and Sauciness at Evermore Books this Saturday, Sep 19 from 1-3pm. This wonderful romance bookshop is located at 857B Bank Street, Ottawa! #Disability #Romance

Sticker 1: OVER FIFTY, SAUCY.
AND SPICY!

Sticker 2: I LIKE IT HOT & SAUCY.

Sticker 3: I SUPPORT SPICY
DISABiLITY ROMANCE! (There’s a little chili pepper too.)

Sticker 4: I'M IN MY SAUCY ERA!

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I love the Miss Vee cozy mystery series by Delilah Knight. It stars a trans woman living in Smiths Falls, and I love her! cozymystery.com/book-author/... #SpoonieAuthChat

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Delilah Knight | CozyMystery.com

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Three more sleeps until the paperback release of Hot Wings and Sauciness. Here’s fun fact #4! #Disability #Romance

FUN FACT #4:

I love mashing genres like potatoes. That's why Hot Wings and Sauciness is an anti-capitalism, anti-ableism hopepunk, space opera romantic comedy.

What?

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You know, maybe it’s because I’ve been blessed with awesome disability community and mentors for the past ten years, which have shaped my perspective in the best way, because I watched Michael J. Fox’s speech at the Emmy’s and thought he looked like a total badass.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think I know what to write for #FirstDraftFall! A hi-lo YA novel I’ve wanted to do for years!

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Them: People will read your book and suspect that it’s AI-generated, even if it isn’t! Me: *stares at Hot Wings and Sauciness* Me: I think I’m fine.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Four more sleeps until the paperback release of Hot Wings and Sauciness! Heres fun fact number 3!

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