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A brand-new Canadian indie press where the dream meets the page! Owned by author @bgordonauthor.bsky.social‬ and award-winning author and editor @caitgauthor.bsky.social‬.
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dinsdale press @dinsdalepress.bsky.social · Oct 1
We’re overjoyed to announce our first-ever book has now been officially released! Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain by @caitgauthor.bsky.social can be found at books2read.com/spec-shorts. (You can also try asking for it at a bookstore near you!) #SFF #CanLit
The paperback of the short story collection and a three layered six-inch wide cake with white icing in between the layers and on top is a brushed white buttercream icing with the Dinsdale Press logo, which is a lowercase d and an uppercase P that have quotation marks for eyes. Around the top of a cake is a border in green and blue. (Description of book cover is in the next photo.) Close-up of the paperback. It’s a blue sky with wispy white clouds and there’s a clothesline that has three pairs of shorts on it. The pair of shorts on the left has a dragon pattern, the shorts in the middle has a playing cards pattern, and the shorts on the right has a galaxy pattern.
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“Bev the Hacker Does Time” by @caitgauthor.bsky.social made its debut in Donna Scott’s Laughs in Space anthology in 2024, and you can vote for the story for an Indieverse Award until November 10 (11:59pm EST) at
indieverseawards.com/voting!

Read the story here: wp.me/P5J2LK-4cs
#BookSky #SFF
There’s a cartoon of a blue alien with a snout, blue hair, and goggles, and who is wearing blue coveralls. She’s also holding a red handled mop in a red bucket. Text says: VOTE FOR BEV? "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! VOTING IS OPEN UNTIL 11:59 PM NOVEMBER 10, 2025 AT INDIEVERSEAWARDS.COM/VOTING THIS WORK IS NOMINATED FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY, COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, OR SHORT WORK FICTION!
November 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Personally, we’re a massive fan of First Draft Cake.

But yeah, getting to a completed draft of a work is so worthy of celebration and so important not to take for granted.

So, how will you celebrate? #AmWriting #WriteSky
Image has the Dinsdale Press logo. Additional text reads: If you have completed a first draft, that’s a huge accomplishment! Remember to celebrate!
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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It’s lit award eligibility season! We’re submitting Spec Shorts to a few of them. (Much excite!)
November 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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We have a sign! I do love these little tabletop scroll-up signs by Vista Print.

As yes, we have dreams! Some fun ones we hope to launch in 2026 and 2027!
A roll up table top sign of the Dinsdale Press logo, which is a lowercase D and uppercase P standing stem to stem, and it they have little faces with eyes made from quotation marks
October 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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We are thrilled to bits that Speculative Shorts has received a glowing review in The Seaboard Review of Books, by the amazing Lisa Timpf! You can find the review here: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/speculativ... #SFF #CanLit #ShortStories #BookSky
"The stories in Speculative Shorts display Gordon's knack for making the reader privy to the protagonists' thoughts and reactions in an empathetic and often amusing way as the action progresses." Lisa Timpf for The Seaboard Review of Books There are also images of the book as an e-book, on a phone display, and the paperback version
October 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Congratulations on your book release, @caitgauthor! 🎉✨ Can't wait to dive into your imaginative stories! 📚💫 Wishing you all the success! #SFF #CanLit
dinsdalepress.bsky.social dinsdale press @dinsdalepress.bsky.social · Oct 1
We’re overjoyed to announce our first-ever book has now been officially released! Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain by @caitgauthor.bsky.social can be found at books2read.com/spec-shorts. (You can also try asking for it at a bookstore near you!) #SFF #CanLit
The paperback of the short story collection and a three layered six-inch wide cake with white icing in between the layers and on top is a brushed white buttercream icing with the Dinsdale Press logo, which is a lowercase d and an uppercase P that have quotation marks for eyes. Around the top of a cake is a border in green and blue. (Description of book cover is in the next photo.) Close-up of the paperback. It’s a blue sky with wispy white clouds and there’s a clothesline that has three pairs of shorts on it. The pair of shorts on the left has a dragon pattern, the shorts in the middle has a playing cards pattern, and the shorts on the right has a galaxy pattern.
October 2, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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I can personally attest that @caitgauthor.bsky.social is a wonderful writer. You should definitely pick up your copy of this collection.
dinsdalepress.bsky.social dinsdale press @dinsdalepress.bsky.social · Oct 1
We’re overjoyed to announce our first-ever book has now been officially released! Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain by @caitgauthor.bsky.social can be found at books2read.com/spec-shorts. (You can also try asking for it at a bookstore near you!) #SFF #CanLit
The paperback of the short story collection and a three layered six-inch wide cake with white icing in between the layers and on top is a brushed white buttercream icing with the Dinsdale Press logo, which is a lowercase d and an uppercase P that have quotation marks for eyes. Around the top of a cake is a border in green and blue. (Description of book cover is in the next photo.) Close-up of the paperback. It’s a blue sky with wispy white clouds and there’s a clothesline that has three pairs of shorts on it. The pair of shorts on the left has a dragon pattern, the shorts in the middle has a playing cards pattern, and the shorts on the right has a galaxy pattern.
October 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
dinsdalepress.bsky.social
We’re overjoyed to announce our first-ever book has now been officially released! Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain by @caitgauthor.bsky.social can be found at books2read.com/spec-shorts. (You can also try asking for it at a bookstore near you!) #SFF #CanLit
The paperback of the short story collection and a three layered six-inch wide cake with white icing in between the layers and on top is a brushed white buttercream icing with the Dinsdale Press logo, which is a lowercase d and an uppercase P that have quotation marks for eyes. Around the top of a cake is a border in green and blue. (Description of book cover is in the next photo.) Close-up of the paperback. It’s a blue sky with wispy white clouds and there’s a clothesline that has three pairs of shorts on it. The pair of shorts on the left has a dragon pattern, the shorts in the middle has a playing cards pattern, and the shorts on the right has a galaxy pattern.
October 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Cute mini swag bags are cute!
Little white paper bags with handles that have the Dinsdale Press logo on them
September 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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*looks up with big eyes*

If you’re going to @canconsffh.bsky.social, please come to my book launch! I’ve never been a solo launcher and really would love to share this moment with you! This collection has been nine years in the making!

Now I just want to read from it and have fun! #CanCon2025
dinsdalepress.bsky.social dinsdale press @dinsdalepress.bsky.social · Sep 23
If you’re going to @canconsffh.bsky.social in October, we’d love if you joined us for the first launch of our first book! The emcee will be Derek Newman-Stille, multiple Prix Aurora Award–winner of Speculating Canada. It should be a blast! #SFF #CanLit
CanCon October 17-19, 2025 Brookstreet Hotel, Kanata SUNDAY 11:30 AM-12:20 PM OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF SPECULATIVE SHORTS: STORIES THAT FELL OUT OF MY BRAIN! Derek Newman-Stille will be the emcee for the launch of Cait Gordon's first-ever short story collection! There will be readings, giveaways, and probably also shenanigans. For paying attendees only.
September 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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If you’re going to @canconsffh.bsky.social in October, we’d love if you joined us for the first launch of our first book! The emcee will be Derek Newman-Stille, multiple Prix Aurora Award–winner of Speculating Canada. It should be a blast! #SFF #CanLit
CanCon October 17-19, 2025 Brookstreet Hotel, Kanata SUNDAY 11:30 AM-12:20 PM OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF SPECULATIVE SHORTS: STORIES THAT FELL OUT OF MY BRAIN! Derek Newman-Stille will be the emcee for the launch of Cait Gordon's first-ever short story collection! There will be readings, giveaways, and probably also shenanigans. For paying attendees only.
September 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Have you ever taken a risk in your author life that’s gone really well? Please share if you like! #WriterSky #WriteSky
September 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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The countdown is on! And with each day comes a fun fact about Speculative Shorts! #SFF
caitgauthor.bsky.social Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · Sep 21
Thank you, @madonaskaff.bsky.social for telling me to go for it and to @nathanburgoine.bsky.social for your flash fic challenges! #SFF books2read.com/spec-shorts
10 more days until the official release of Speculative Shorts! Fun fact #1: The book is dedicated to Canadian authors Madona Skaff-Koren and 'Nathan Burgoine because they inspired me to write short fiction!
September 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Thanks so much to our new followers! It’s not always easy finding folks when you’re a brand-newish account. Hope you’re having a great weekend! #BookSky #IndieAuthors
September 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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New trailer for Speculative Shorts! It has a voice-over too!

The dream has met the page! I repeat: The dream has met the page! #SFF #Disability #DisabilityFiction #QueerBooks #CanLit #CanadianAuthor #BookSky
September 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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IT’S PERFECT WEATHER FOR SHORTS!

Speculative Shorts, that is.

Books have arrived for our launch at @canconsffh.bsky.social in a month! Woohoo! #SFF #CanLit
Piles of copies of Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain, by Cait Gordon sit on an oak table.
September 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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There’s no generative AI in our books. Fun fact: Speculative Shorts also states plainly on the cover that the stories fell out of @caitgauthor.bsky.social‘s brain! 😃 #SFF #IndieAuthors
Photo of the paperback of the short story collection. It’s a blue sky with a few wispy clouds and a clothesline that has three pairs of shorts on it. The left pair has a dragon pattern, the middle pair has a deck of cards pattern, and the pair on the right has a galaxy pattern.
September 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Here’s proof that we have a proof! We proofed the proof too!

It’s a prooftastic day!

Can’t wait to order the author copies for our launch in October! #WriteSky
A proof copy of the paperback of Speculative Shorts that says “not for resale on it.” The cover is a blue sky with white wispy clouds, and a clothesline that has three pairs of shorts on it. The left pair of shorts has a dragon scale pattern, the middle has a deck of cards pattern, and the one on the right has a galaxy pattern.
September 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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That thing when you’re waiting for your first book proof to arrive in the mail.

WHY ISN’T IT HERE YET?

*ahems*

No, we’re fine.

Seriously.

*checks delivery status again*

#WriteSky
September 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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What a fantastic way to enjoy stories on the go! 📚✨ I can't wait to dive into Cait's speculative shorts! Preorders are so exciting! #EbookLove #SFF 🌟
dinsdalepress.bsky.social dinsdale press @dinsdalepress.bsky.social · Aug 30
You like ebooks? You can bring these shorts with you all year round! Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain by @caitgauthor.bsky.social is available for preorder in ebook format! (Paperback preorders coming soon!) books2read.com/spec-shorts #SFF #CanLit #BookSky
A pale seafoam blue background that shows an e-reader featuring Speculative Shorts by Cait Gordon. There is also the Dinsdale Press logo and the following text: "Cait Gordon writes with infectious joy and energy, and with a sense of humour that is never far from the surface—even in the darkest moments." Kate Heartfield, Prix Aurora Award-winning author of The Embroidered Book RELEASE DATE: October 1, 2025! PREORDER TODAY! A nonbinary Alice accidentally enters their own clubbing wonderland because of a smiley app and Bong Guy. An autistic writing instructor who hates ABA but loves ABBA becomes an unexpected hero. A "silent" mermaid-siren noted for keeping the sea safe from poachers is guided to a Lander who might not be like the others. A disabled space pilot couriers precious cargo for the Network while trying to evade the eugenics-based brigade who wants to keep people like her "safe at home." A descendant of Frankenstein's monster is having her sweet sixteen party, but her mother's gift stops the teen in her rollator's tracks. Explore these stories and more in this collection of fifteen tales of queer life, disability, romance, power, defiance, and resilience.
August 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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I love ebooks! 📚✨ They’re perfect for on-the-go reading! Can’t wait for "Speculative Shorts" to drop! Preordering is such a great way to support authors! 🥳 #SFF #BookLovers
dinsdalepress.bsky.social dinsdale press @dinsdalepress.bsky.social · Aug 30
You like ebooks? You can bring these shorts with you all year round! Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain by @caitgauthor.bsky.social is available for preorder in ebook format! (Paperback preorders coming soon!) books2read.com/spec-shorts #SFF #CanLit #BookSky
A pale seafoam blue background that shows an e-reader featuring Speculative Shorts by Cait Gordon. There is also the Dinsdale Press logo and the following text: "Cait Gordon writes with infectious joy and energy, and with a sense of humour that is never far from the surface—even in the darkest moments." Kate Heartfield, Prix Aurora Award-winning author of The Embroidered Book RELEASE DATE: October 1, 2025! PREORDER TODAY! A nonbinary Alice accidentally enters their own clubbing wonderland because of a smiley app and Bong Guy. An autistic writing instructor who hates ABA but loves ABBA becomes an unexpected hero. A "silent" mermaid-siren noted for keeping the sea safe from poachers is guided to a Lander who might not be like the others. A disabled space pilot couriers precious cargo for the Network while trying to evade the eugenics-based brigade who wants to keep people like her "safe at home." A descendant of Frankenstein's monster is having her sweet sixteen party, but her mother's gift stops the teen in her rollator's tracks. Explore these stories and more in this collection of fifteen tales of queer life, disability, romance, power, defiance, and resilience.
August 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
dinsdalepress.bsky.social
You like ebooks? You can bring these shorts with you all year round! Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain by @caitgauthor.bsky.social is available for preorder in ebook format! (Paperback preorders coming soon!) books2read.com/spec-shorts #SFF #CanLit #BookSky
A pale seafoam blue background that shows an e-reader featuring Speculative Shorts by Cait Gordon. There is also the Dinsdale Press logo and the following text: "Cait Gordon writes with infectious joy and energy, and with a sense of humour that is never far from the surface—even in the darkest moments." Kate Heartfield, Prix Aurora Award-winning author of The Embroidered Book RELEASE DATE: October 1, 2025! PREORDER TODAY! A nonbinary Alice accidentally enters their own clubbing wonderland because of a smiley app and Bong Guy. An autistic writing instructor who hates ABA but loves ABBA becomes an unexpected hero. A "silent" mermaid-siren noted for keeping the sea safe from poachers is guided to a Lander who might not be like the others. A disabled space pilot couriers precious cargo for the Network while trying to evade the eugenics-based brigade who wants to keep people like her "safe at home." A descendant of Frankenstein's monster is having her sweet sixteen party, but her mother's gift stops the teen in her rollator's tracks. Explore these stories and more in this collection of fifteen tales of queer life, disability, romance, power, defiance, and resilience.
August 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Fun fact: the founders of Dinsdale Press are celebrating their wedding birthday today!

(Pro tip: If you call it a wedding birthday, you automatically get a birthday cake.)
August 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Fun fact: Our tagline is “Where the dream meets the page.”

Do you have a dream board of WIPs you’d like to write?
August 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM