Amanda Rutter

@alrutter.bsky.social

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Commissioning Editor at Solaris Books. Owned by three hellhounds. Talks a lot about politics, sports, books and dogs. Knitter, crocheter and lover of loud music.

Fox red cockador fast asleep and completely relaxed on a large grey dog bed
VHS cover to the animated series The Dreamstone
Two early messages in a dating app, where the first one showcases a fragile male ego and the second demonstrates a strong independent woman who scares him. First message: "So if horses, work and sleep are taking all the available slots, does that mean you don't actually have time to date? I tend not to compete with four-legged animals (wink). As for me, snowboarding, scuba diving, travelling and cooking. Pretty standard adventure-seeking male behaviour really. So tell me, what does your ideal Sunday look like when you're not working or covered in horse hair?" Second message: "'I tend not to compete with four-legged animals'?! Ah, well they will always come first, as they can't look after themselves, so I guess I may be looking for someone with a bit more independence, or at least someone who's not jealous/resentful of my horses (laughing). Oh, and my ideal Sunday is absolutely being covered in horse hair!"
Small fox red lab/spaniel cross with her back VERY firmly turned to her human, her head tucked into her cuddly toy
Black t-shirt with yellow words saying Heart Says Pit (with white skeletons having a whale of a time in the pit) then Knees Say Sit (with a sad white skeleton sitting on a chair)
Tim Curry in his role as Darkness from the film Legend, all in red with vast black horns emerging from his head, and fangs that show his absolutely wicked smile.
A tired ginger pup using a large variegated red and orange ball of wool as a pillow, the ball attached to an ongoing crochet project
A very sad looking ginger pupper with ridiculously large and expressive ears, soaked in a shower cubicle after being very thoroughly washed.
UK cover to The Killing Spell by Shay Kauwe - a sweeping background of foliage and hidden Hawaiian words in lush blues and purples, with a vividly decorated snake emerging from the top right hand corner to hang over the title in bright turquoise, with two leiomanos in the centre at the bottom in rust and yellow, behind the author's name in pale orange.
Alex Lifeson on guitar, Geddy Lee on bass, and Neil Peart on drums!
Beautiful and healthy fox red cockador sat with a backdrop of spring blossom and an unsettled springtime sky (could be rain, could be sun, we'll never know!)
A happy little dumpster fire, pretending everything is fine.
Book cover of These Shattered Spires by Cassidy Ellis Salter - a cloaked figure heading towards a weird bony city with a weird skyscape.
Stack of hardback library books: Quicksilver by Callie Hart, Idolfire by Grace Curtis, The Last Hour Between World by Melissa Caruso, The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig, The Gentleman and His Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide, Cage of Starlight by Jules Arbeaux, The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes, Katabasis by R F Huang
Golda Rosheuvel and Adjoa Andoh as the Queen and Lady Danbury in Bridgerton
A VERY attentive Fox red Cockador, with an expression that demands to speak to the manager
Rough-haired, sandy-coloured lurcher with expressive, attentive ears and an open-mouthed happy dog smile, against a backdrop of very green, lush grass.
Snow covered pond, with a snow covered hillock in the foreground and an intensely blue winter's sky above.
A heraldic-style portrait of the Year of the Curious Squid. The squid looks somewhat startled, and has a green body with blue tentacles and a blue stripe along its mantle
A hand palm up with fingers curled inward showing sparkly red nail polish with a chrome zigzag representation of a Christmas tree on the ring finger nail!
A horror show of a picture. A dog captured mid-headshake with ears like aeroplane wings and eyes managing to stare in three different directions, even though she only has two of them.
Stack of gorgeous books on a sofa arm, going bottom to top: The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson, Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho, Metal From Heaven by august clarke, While the Gods Sleep by L. D. Colter and When the Winds Sing by L. D. Colter
Black cover of Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho, with a gold flare around the abyss of the letter 'O' in Voidbringer, and the tagline: "A Broken System Forges the Sharpest Blades"
Cover for When the Winds Sing by L. D. Colter - a red background textured with Slavic mosaic, with gold figures such as eagles and Baba Yaga's house, chicken legs and all.
Two November releases - Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho and The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson, both out 6th November
Sleep fox red cockador with her head on my hand as I work at a laptop
A crochet blanket featuring British birds - against a swirling blue background of different colours of blue and grey, bringing to mind an English sky, there are eleven birds featured, all crocheted using a freeform, no-pattern technique. The birds are: mallard, kingfisher, heron, bullfinch, great tit, long-tailed tit, goldfinch, robin, magpie and green woodpecker (and the fact I could name them all from the way they're represented in yarn shows how brilliantly they've been crafted!)
Two tattooed forearms, one with a horse, a billowing mane in blacks and purples around its face, one with a feathered quill, with ravens flying from it
Chris Robshaw on a rugby pitch, ball clutched in one hand, serving a dummy as he makes a run, dressed in the England rugby kit, red rose on his chest.
Black t-shirt, with a red and black shaded square, featuring a white rabbit surrounded by seething teeth and beaks and claws, with the slogan 'Prince With a Thousand Enemies'
Amanda's 95 year old grandma, smiling into the camera, dressed smartly in a red, black and white dress, and wearing a banner that says 95 and fabulous, with a tiara that spells 95!
Two dogs in the same pose on a rug in front of an electric coal fire.
A rough haired sandy brown lurcher bounding face on through a grassy meadow scattered with wildflowers. Above him a sky of blue and summer clouds. His mouth is open and his face is utterly joyful. In the distance is his little sister - a fox red Cockador - trying to keep up.
Fox red cockador curled up in a snooze, with her nose tucked in under her paw
A stack of mismatched books - at the bottom, a chunky red hardback with white writing for the title, which is The Decade in Tory (all three books by Russell Jones); in the middle, a slightly less chunky red hardback with gold writing for the title, which is Four Chancellors and a Funeral; at the top a miserably flimsy paperback with the title Tories: The End of an Error
A still from the movie The Never-Ending Story, with main character Atreyu, a young warrior boy up to his waist in a swamp of black mud, pulling desperately on the reins of a small grey horse, who is gradually sinking.
Book cover of Pagans by James Alastair Henry
From Wool Warehouse - we currently believe that we will have to suspend all shipping to the USA on 21st August. Previously, we were able to send packages below $800 in value to customers in the USA with no additional taxes, duties or tariffs being applied. From 29th August 2025, any package arriving in the US will be subject to additional taxes, duties or tariffs. Our current understanding is that there will be FOUR separate charges: 1. Import duty. This is based on the HS/HTS code of the product. For yarn, this is generally between 4% and 7.5% 2. Reciprocal tariff rate, based on country of origin (COO). For example, 10% for the UK, 15% for Türkiye, 25% for India, 30% for China. These are where most yarn spinners are based. 3. Section 301 Tariff Rate: Based on HS/HTS code. 25% for yarn (ouch). This is the one most people aren't aware of yet, but also the one with the most question marks over whether it will apply or not. We currently believe it will, but may be wrong. 4. Clearance fee/use of deferment fee. Generally between 4% and 5%, plus between £0.50 and £2.00 per order So the likely average extra charges will be in the region of 50% based on our current understanding.
Woodland path, with bracken and trees changing colours to yellows and oranges. Hunter, a rough-haired lurcher, is on a red lead and chilling while I take the photograph.
A wrap in variegated yarn, whites through blues through greys, knitted, held over an arm against a white background
Mosaic yarn design of a Halloween themed house, with bats in the sky around, and pumpkins on the porch.
Four gorgeous cakes of yarn in Halloween colours - blacks, greys, oranges, purples - in gradient designs