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Dr Amy Borsuk
@bardythoughts.bsky.social
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SFF Editor for @SolarisBooks.bsky.social by day, contemporary Shakespeare theatre scholar by night. Sometimes theatre critic, dramaturg.
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YES THANK YOU
Dragon Rider by Taran Matharu, a white book cover with an illustrated dragon in yellow to red gradient
August 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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In other news I've started reading this and as usual Butler's materialist and psychoanalytic take is illuminating, but I do also want an essay comparing their analysis of gender being used as a 'phantasm' to the metaphor of the 'spectre haunting Europe'.
Pip the cat marking his nose on Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender?
August 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Sometimes you need to stack up your editorial projects to remind yourself you're working hard. Proud of all these titles, and proud of the yet-to-be-printed Ragwort and The Ganymedan to round out the year!
A stack of books on their side, top to bottom: The Soccer Diaries book 3, The Unkillable Princess, The Desert Talon, A Covenant of Ice, The Needfire, The Door on the Sea. The world book day Soccer Diaries Rocky Takes the Lead leans against the stack.
July 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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It's been a harrowing two months of grief and uncertainty, but it's a true blessing to say that after intense surgery and recovery, Pip is cancer-free and we can expect to give him a full, wonderful life. I'm so grateful and overjoyed, and ready to celebrate life
Pip the orange and white tabby sitting like a loaf on my lap looking very content.
April 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Congratulations to Aliya Whiteley for winning Best Novel for Three Eight One!

(And thanks for letting me accept on your behalf!) @solarisbooks.bsky.social @easterconuk.bsky.social
A glass award for BSFA Best Novel 2024 sits on a plinth under stage lights at the award ceremony
April 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Delighted to be at EasterCon this weekend to cheer on amazing authors. Apologies if I'm a little distracted or withdrawn, there will be a part of my brain thinking about my post-op kitty in his anti-scritch-the-stitches onesie
Pip the orange and white tabby sitting on a bed, wearing a bright red onesie. His is giving his trademark squint at the camera and his legs have shaved spots where he had his IV
April 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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I SUBMITTED MY BOOK PROPOSAL
Title card from Spongebob that reads: One eternity later
March 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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[Cw pet illness, grief]
It's been a hard week with heartbreaking decisions to put Pip on palliative care. Grief hurts; it's so difficult to manage anticipatory grief, to endure a slow process of letting go, while holding lovingly and fiercely to every moment we still have together.
Pip the orange and white tabby sits on a heating pad on a desk, looking contentedly into the camera. His fur is slightly ruffled from sleep and the lack of grooming that occurs when a cat is in decline.
February 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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🎶look at my son, pride is not the word I'm looking for🎶
Pip the orange and white tabby is looking up and showing all of his single tooth in a dramatic snaggletooth that catches his upper lip. Pip the orange and white tabby is looking up, being pet on his head, his eyes are closed in bliss and his snaggletooth protrudes so much that his mouth looks like a pink triangle
January 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Found the most adorable pair of mugs, happy birthday to me!
Two mugs that look like red toadstools sit on a shelf of notebooks. The mug is white and scalloped, with the red and white polka-dot cap as a lid over it.
December 23, 2024 at 6:00 AM
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Pip uses his head (and my lap)
Pip the orange and white tabby sits on my lap, facing out so that his entire head rests on my laptop track pad. He is fast asleep.
December 18, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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The meme comic of a man staring through a window wearing a shirt that says "sickos", saying "YES... HA HA HA ... YES!"
November 22, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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Pip in the snow: a short story
A back porch covered in white snow except for five paw prints. The directions of the prints imply a cat came outside one step, stood in the snow, and promptly turned back around and went inside.
November 19, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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Marge Simpson holding a potato and saying, "I just think they're neat."
November 13, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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I am very proud of my cross-stitch version of the rabbit on the man-snail
A cross-stitch of a grey rabbit holding a blue shield and spear and riding a snail with an old man's head.
October 16, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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In other news, this silly boy got bullied by a squirrel today
Pip the orange and white tabby sits on a window ledge looking directly into the camera with his resting grumpy face
September 14, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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So delighted to finally be able to announce that Rocky has been selected for World Book Day 2025! I'm so proud of The Soccer Diaries series; Thanks to co editor @mestierious.bsky.social and of course our always amazing Rocky author, Tom Palmer!
An announcement for World Book Day 2025, 6 March, showing the cover for The Soccer Diaries: Rocky Takes the Lead and a cartoon illustration of a person with dark skin and short hair kicking a football and reading.
September 10, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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For this year, I heard the calling to upgrade my whaling wardrobe
Amy is wearing a navy blue dress with a pattern of black whales of all kinds (inspired from prints at the Natural History Museum)
August 27, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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Whew, all of the books I edited for 2024 have gone to print! It's very satisfying to see them all together. So proud to have worked with all these amazing authors!
A stack of books on their sides: Redsight, Snowblooded, Lady Eve's Last Con, Gorse, The Republic of Salt, and The Mountain Crown
August 21, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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Very excited to be excited about reading again
A stack of newly purchased books: Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad, The Ghost Cat by Alex Howard, He Who Drowned the World by Shlley Parker-Chan, and Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
August 17, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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Home at last
Pip, and orange and white tabby cat, sits in my lap with his chin resting on my hand for pets. His eyes are closed and ears are relaxed in happiness.
August 13, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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Feeling very lucky to be able to be @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social proxy for his Hugo nomination! And very humbling and energising to be in such incredible company
My view of the Hugo Awards 2024 Ceremony stage, with a podium and bright backdrop showing the event logo. Featuring the back of Garth Nix's head, and many other nominees
August 12, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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Day 2, let's go!
Amy is wearing a black jumpsuit, 3M mask and glasses, sitting in front of the Solaris Books banner.
August 9, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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Day 1 of Glasgow Worldcon! When I'm not running around, find me at the Solaris stand in the Dealers Hall, or just say hi!
Amy is sitting in front of a black Solaris Books banner. She is wearing a flowery jumpsuit, her con lanyard, a 3M mask and has brown hair, blue eyes and brown round glasses
August 8, 2024 at 10:01 AM
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Pip would run a plant nursery
Pip, an orange and white tabby, laying on a concrete path surrounded by grass and vervain flowers. He is looking at the camera with a big snaggletooth and relaxed expression
July 26, 2024 at 6:33 PM