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. Bylines in Exeunt Magazine and Ancillary Review of Books

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
Dragon Rider by Taran Matharu, a white book cover with an illustrated dragon in yellow to red gradient
Pip the cat marking his nose on Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender?
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.
Pip the orange and white tabby sitting like a loaf on my lap looking very content.
A glass award for BSFA Best Novel 2024 sits on a plinth under stage lights at the award ceremony
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
Title card from Spongebob that reads: One eternity later
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.
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.
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.
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.
The meme comic of a man staring through a window wearing a shirt that says "sickos", saying "YES... HA HA HA ... YES!"
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.
Marge Simpson holding a potato and saying, "I just think they're neat."
A cross-stitch of a grey rabbit holding a blue shield and spear and riding a snail with an old man's head.
Pip the orange and white tabby sits on a window ledge looking directly into the camera with his resting grumpy face
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.
Amy is wearing a navy blue dress with a pattern of black whales of all kinds (inspired from prints at the Natural History Museum)
A stack of books on their sides: Redsight, Snowblooded, Lady Eve's Last Con, Gorse, The Republic of Salt, and The Mountain Crown
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
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.
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
Amy is wearing a black jumpsuit, 3M mask and glasses, sitting in front of the Solaris Books banner.
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
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
Pip, an orange and white tabby cat, lays on the rug on his side in a spot of sunshine. He looks relaxed and content
Pip sitting looking up happily at something offscreen. He has a bald patch on his neck and shoulder from his medical treatment
A banner for Hadestown in the foyer of the Lyric Theatre on the West End
The marquee for Sweeney Todd on Broadway
A shelf at Foyles with two UK editions of Someone You Can Build A Nest In
Pip, an orange and white tabby, sits on a cat tree platform looking cute and innocent with eyes slightly closed and relaxed ears, purring.
Comic panel from Hyperbole and a Half with MS paint cartoon of Allie Brosh gesturing widely, a mad empty grin on her face, declaring 'Maybe everything isn't hopeless bullshit' with a bright rainbow and confetti
Horse ebook Tweet: Everything happens so much
An orange and white tabby cat is fast asleep in a doughnut shaped bed using all four of his paws as a pillow tucked under his head
A white and orange tabby is curled up in my lap on a red blanket. He is purring and staring at the camera with squinted relaxed eyes.
An orange and white tabby cat is fast asleep on a sherpa blanket, his arms, legs and tail tucked underneath him and his face buried in the fuzzy blanket. His person is trying to play video games while he sleeps on her lap like this.
An orange and white tabby cat sitting with a vacant expression and a blep so big that his tongue is dangling out of his mouth.
A blurry photo of an orange and white tabby cat batting furiously at a balled-up piece of paper.