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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Proud of all my authors from 2025! And proud of how much I have grown editorially. More from these authors and beyond in 2026

My cat Pip rubbing his face against a stack of books I edited. The books are: The Unkillable Princess, A Covenant of Ice, The Desert Talon, The Needfire, Ragwort, The Door on the Sea and The Ganymedan

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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?

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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.

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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.

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

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

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

[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.

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

🎶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

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

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.

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

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.

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

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

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

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.

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

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)

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

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

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

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

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

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

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

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

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 05/05/2024

West end cast is chef's kiss, got surprised by Epic Part III and remembered we had the instrumental segment in our wedding and absolutely sobbed silently through the scene

A banner for Hadestown in the foyer of the Lyric Theatre on the West End

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

Spotted at Foyles, Tottenham Court Road in the new releases, right before I snagged a copy 😊

A shelf at Foyles with two UK editions of Someone You Can Build A Nest In

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Dr Amy Borsuk @bardythoughts.bsky.social · 07/04/2024

[Pet illness] Poor little Pip has been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. He's going to have cat radiation therapy hopefully next month, which should cure it. It's going to be hard leaving him at a clinic for 10 days (and then minimal cuddles for 2 weeks while he oozes radiation). All for the best ❤