Una McCormack
Posted in Anthologies, Doctor Who on Jul 14th, 2010
Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures Edited by: Ross P. Garner, Melissa Beattie and Una McCormack The successful regeneration of Doctor Who in the twenty-first century has sparked unprecedented popular success and renewed interest within the academy. The ten essays assembled in this volume draw on [...]
Posted in Doctor Who, Novels, Television, Writing on Jul 5th, 2010
My Doctor Who novel, The King’s Dragon, is published on Thursday, and you can read an exclusive Amazon prelude, linked from here.
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 Doctor Who, Novels, Television, Writing on Jan 21st, 2010
I’m delighted to be writing an Eleventh Doctor novel, titled The King’s Dragon! In other news, Big Finish, producers of Doctor Who audios, are inviting pitches from new writers for a one-off, 25-minute Fifth Doctor and Nyssa audio adventure: more information here. Deadline Monday 1st February, so hurry up!
Posted in Novels, Reviews, Star Trek, Writing on Aug 25th, 2009
Today is the official publication date of The Never-Ending Sacrifice (although it has been shipping from Amazon for a few days now, and sighted in locations as far-flung as Toronto and London). Trekmovie.com have published a rather splendid review, which you can read here.
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 Television on Apr 8th, 2009
I really do like Lewis, which is as enjoyable and attractively made as Inspector Morse, but doesn’t have that miserable misogynist snob spoiling my fun. I like it even though they cruelly bumped off Lewis’ missus at the start of the first episode, just so that he could pretend he was mourning her and not [...]
Posted in Doctor Who, Television, Writers, Writing on May 23rd, 2008
I haven’t updated in a while properly, have I? So today I shall. I’ve been busy writing. Which is obviously good, but it turns me into a bit of a hermit who fails to notice the passage of time. I seem to have hit a creative vein at the moment, which means I’m likely to [...]
Posted in Television on Mar 2nd, 2008
Because we are W.O.T. (With Out Television), we’re catching up on the pile of unwatched DVDs. Right now we’re mainlining Enemy at the Door, an LWT series which ran for two seasons between 1978-1980 about the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands, and about which I had heard nothing until M. rolled up with the [...]
Posted in Anthologies, Doctor Who, Writing on Jan 18th, 2008
This week I’ve been revising a story. I read somewhere once that revision is one of the chief pleasures of writing and this time round I really got what that was all about. It was enormous fun. One piece of advice I had in mind all week was something David Almond says on his website [...]
@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