Una McCormack
Posted in Life's Rich Pageant, Novels, Star Trek on Jan 29th, 2010
I love the TV tropes site, so I was very excited to learn that they had a new section about the Trek books (contains spoilers) and hopped around in delight to find refs to my own books. I’m a cliche!
Posted in Life's Rich Pageant on Nov 30th, 2009
I’m sad to see Borders go. I remember the first one I went into, in York. A gleaming palace of books, bright and warm and friendly. I’ve spent a lot of time in our local one over the past year, writing in Starbucks, and I’m terribly sad for friends who work there. I popped in [...]
Posted in Life's Rich Pageant, Writing on Nov 24th, 2009
On Sunday I had a smashing evening with the brilliant folks at CUSFS, who gave me a slap-up dinner, and I gave them a talk about reading SF, and writing fanfic, and writing profic, and loving B7. Then there was lots of fun discussion about new Who and old Trek. I was a member of [...]
Posted in Life's Rich Pageant, Writers on Sep 12th, 2009
It’s a year since I joined BookMooch, so I thought I’d post about the experience. BookMooch is an online community that enables the exchange of books: you post an inventory of books that you’re willing to exchange, earn points for sending them out, and then use those points to request books that you want. Joining [...]
Posted in Life's Rich Pageant on Sep 7th, 2009
We went to the second one-day international at Lord’s on Sunday. England of course did not win, but as a large proportion of the fun comes from having a sit and a chat with M. and passing judgement on the people around us, that was fine. Also, we had a very nice picnic hamper. And [...]
Posted in Life's Rich Pageant on Aug 21st, 2009
We were at the cricket at the Oval yesterday, my first ever time at a cricket match, and my first time at a sporting event since, um, the opening of the World Student Games sometime in the 90s. I thoroughly enjoyed myself, and this despite England not doing terribly well yesterday. The weather was glorious, [...]
Posted in Life's Rich Pageant, Novels, Star Trek, Writing on Jul 23rd, 2009
You can now read an excerpt from The Never-Ending Sacrifice on the Simon and Schuster website, here. Also, coming to a newsagent near you real soon now, Star Trek Magazine 20 contains an extract and review, along with other goodies related to some film or other that came out earlier this year. Available early August [...]
Posted in Life's Rich Pageant, Music, Writers on Jan 17th, 2009
I can’t believe how much better I feel. Last weekend I was tottering around and my immune system felt like a fragile lace around me. This weekend I’m leaping around like a young gazelle. Well, actually I’m snuggled up in the house in front of my computer, but that’s a lot livelier than last week. [...]
Posted in Life's Rich Pageant on Jan 2nd, 2009
I am back from Christmas wanderings during which I have eaten and drunk and been merry, seen some very good friends, played many excellent games, including hide and seek with a tiny person and the highly addictive Zeus on the Loose, and OF COURSE watched Ghost Watch. While I was away, the cover art to [...]
Posted in Life's Rich Pageant on Jul 29th, 2008
In a major act of psychological reshuffling, I am in the middle of throwing out most of my undergraduate notes. “Good god, woman – you still have your undergraduate notes?! What kind of a freak are you!?” I hear you cry. Well, leaving aside the latter question, yes, I do, actually – and also, so [...]
@cathoderaytube Happy birthday, sir! - posted on 06/09/2010 12:53:49@JasonArnopp Good morning, you merry pine marten. - posted on 06/09/2010 08:33:34@JasonArnopp Mornin' Marvin. - posted on 05/09/2010 09:47:00
@unamccormack Definitely Dodie Smith, as that's the reference I remember @gervase_fen telling me. - posted on 04/09/2010 18:50:43@ParrotKnight Don't know if he was friends with PL Travers too! - posted on 04/09/2010 18:49:46