Dr Amy Borsuk

A great resource and a chance to remind people what great stuff is out there!

Yes! Drop me an email and we can schedule something in!

Omg I love Alex Ross' The Rest Is Noise, I had no idea he wrote a whole book on Wagner. I must look into this 👀

Turns out I'll be tagging in for @alrutter.bsky.social at World Fantasycon this weekend: I'll be in the PUBLISHING DEMYSTIFIED panel on Friday and the EDITING AND EDITORS panel on Saturday! Hope to see you there!

As I try to pick clients, I want to make sure they're people who will actually work well with a human in edits. I can't tell if using aids like Grammarly is an immediate red flag. (Using chatGPT for a full draft/whole process is an obvs no) How have you seen ppl using these programmes?

I do freelance editing in addition to my day job &I am encountering more people using programmes eg ProWritingAid to 'assist' in writing their first drafts before coming to me for dev edits/coaching. Wrt making a decision about taking on a client, I'm not sure what to make of this /1

Me holding up a physical copy of my book The Ganymedan

Inside title page: The Ganymedan R.T. Ester Solaris

Page/excerpt from The Ganymedan: DEPROG In the days following Archer Lenox-Pileser’s death, the official account of what happened on the outskirts of Paradox would go unchallenged. A spacer—a sentient ship—had unwittingly ferried his assassin to the station. While docked for a refuel, the spacer learned of its error and alerted Martian Patrol. The assassin then broke out of the spacer using a signal skipper and a wedger. He died of vacuum exposure before Patrol arrived. Every news feed was whipped into endless war speculation by then. The matter of Archer Lenox-Pileser’s final death—shocking as it may have been when it broke—vanished in a few weeks. At Gan, a woman who’d also been in the news allowed her brother to bring a pair of sentients near her tent. She wept into her palm heels while a song for the killer played, harkening back to ghosts pre-Frontier and past evictions from dome houses they built on Ganymede. When she could spare some composure for the sentients, she invited them in. They dropped off a device the killer had wanted her to keep, then gave the full account.

In less than a month, my novel The Ganymedan, which combines Altered Carbon with the spacefacing intrigue of The Expanse, will be out in stores. Please consider pre-ordering a copy. If you already have, thank you kindly!

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I've decided that whilst critical success is lovely, I'd like to sell some books.

If you liked EXTREMOPHILE, recommend it to a pal! (If your pal is fucking COOL and not a narc)

Eco-terrorism biohacking body horror, smart shit with dumb characters. Your new favourite book

Realised with a jolt that World Fantasycon is around the corner. I would love to meet folks, especially writers in the folk fantasy and horror spaces! Or please just do say hi!

(I loved writing my theatre review like an AO3 entry, way too proud of it as an idea)

Against a background of blue and teal swirled fabric with red and blue ribbons with a hardback copy of THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russel laid on top. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom right corner.

🌊1st in a new epic fantasy series
🛶 Inspired by the culture and folklore of the Tlingit tribe of Alaska
📕 One of Reactor & Indigo's "Most Anticipated" Books of 2025
🐦⬛ Features a REALLY rude Raven

🎂🎉Happy UK Book Birthday to Caskey Russell's THE DOOR ON THE SEA!

Buy geni.us/doorsea

Calls for Reviews & Essays: January 2026 The Ancillary Review of Books publishes reviews and essays with an emphasis on utopian impulses and systemic injustices. ARB seeks to build a community of radical thinkers writing about amazing, sp…

Only October, but we're already looking ahead to the fantastic books coming out next year: give us a pitch if you're interested in reviewing any of these January titles!
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I'm embarrassed I didn't even think of all the wild and weird film adaptations out there, let alone this one! A bunch of aspects of the book now make even more sense in relation to it. Thank you for reading the review!

Really enjoyed how this review brings theater & speculative criticism together. Good stuff!

I'm also resigned to admit that that 2016 RSC Tempest production will haunt me until I die.

My theatre life and publishing life collide in a book review of this fascinating SF re-imagining of The Tempest!

Good morning it’s their day

Against a dark green background with autumnal branches, white text "Available to request on Netgalley" above an eReader with the cover for THE GODS MUST BURN by T. R. Moore. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom right corner.

🚨AVAILABLE ON NETGALLEY!🚨

RUN, don't walk, over to Netgalley to request an eARC of @authortrmoore.bsky.social 's darkly romantic eco fantasy of gods and forests, from the perspective of a traumatised "war hero" longing for peace.

Request geni.us/SolarisNG
Preorder geni.us/godsmb

Come for the locked boat dark academia murder mystery, stay for a strange and drowning Oracle?

We're entering 'please pre order my book so I get to publish more' season... so pls click here? 🖤 geni.us/saltorac

I'm all set, but thank you, that's very kind of you to ask!

Passed my Life in the UK test now I gotta fill in a form, overshare all aspects of my life in a stack of documents, and pay the government an exorbitant amount of money one more time and then y'all are stuck with me permanently

*cracks knuckles* Foyles, Forbidden Planet, Gay's the Word, London Review Bookshop, Brick Lane Books, pay a visit to Goldsboro in Cecil Court. The V&A cafe is gorgeous (I have way better Oxford cafe recs), lmk if you want theatre recs and what kind

I'm sorry, Em ❤️

Red Kite: A large bird of prey twists into a dive, head down, wings outstretched, tail flared. The bird is reddish brown with silver patches on wings and black wing tips. 1990 13 youngsters (from Wales & Sweden) released in Chilterns, England. Wild populations established in England and Scotland and further releases occurred in NI and Republic of Ireland. Red kite population has seen a spectacular recovery, increasing by 2,464% between 1995 and 2023. In the last 5 years, we now regularly see Red Kites on the North Norfolk coast.

"Red kite"
The iconic conservation success story: persecuted to just a few pairs in Wales, an intensive conservation effort has seen a spectacular recovery in population, increasing by 2,464% between 1995 and 2023.
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White text against a fiery orange background: ARCs are ready! Dark and romantic eco- fantasy from the man’s POV A book that feels like a Hozier yell sounds For fans of The Wolf and The Woodsman and Princess Mononoke Learning to Survive after sacrifice Gods as embodiments of nature Bisexual MC Recovering from a life of pointless war Wild forests need wild guardians Protect her, or burn together On the right, a 3D hardback of THE GODS MUST BURN by T. R. Moore. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom right corner.

🚨ARCS ARE READY!🚨

Calling all UK/IE/CAN/US Reviewers & booksellers, pop a wolf🐺in the comments to be in with a chance of receiving an ARC of @authortrmoore.bsky.social
's THE GODS MUST BURN: where a disgraced war hero is transformed into the Wolf God against his will.

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Today is the anniversary of the opening of The first production of The Threepenny Opera.

I’ll post below it a photo from a production I did in SF some years ago. . .

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I love these questions. I think that considering science as a mode of creativity, imagination, w a structured form of inquiry helps make 'science' feel less imperatively realist(i.e. having to prove a future). But ofcourse a lot of SF doesn't use the S as a mode of inquiry, but one of explanation...

Slowly making my way through these - the Le Guin prize is always a great way to discover incredible work

Happy 10 years in the UK to meeeee 🥳🥳✨️