I am writing two short stories at the moment, switching between them. I work on one in the mornings, and the other in the afternoons. The first is reflective, written in pencil on paper, each word an effort, mined. The second is fast-moving, typed, a crime story, written to remind me that I am able to produce meaning and narrative with ease. That’s the plan. Remember, though, just because it’s short doesn’t mean it’s easy. (That’s what I tell all the boys.)
Code switching
Jun 9th, 2010 by Una McCormack
Requiems for the Departed: launch
Jun 7th, 2010 by Una McCormack
Forbidden Planet signing
May 27th, 2010 by Una McCormack
I’m doing a signing at Forbidden Planet in London, with the lovely Gary Russell and Oli Smith, authors, respectively, of Doctor Who: The Glamour Chase and Doctor Who: Nuclear Time. More here.
Saturday 17 July 13:00 – 14:00
London Megastore
179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR
Come and say hello and buy shed-loads of copies!
Doctor Who: The King’s Dragon – cover
May 19th, 2010 by Una McCormack
What’s that? You’d like to see the cover of my forthcoming Doctor Who novel The King’s Dragon featuring the eleventh Doctor and published by BBC Books on 8 July? Well luckily for you I can oblige…
And, yes, since you ask, you can pre-order from Amazon.
Requiems for the Departed available for pre-order!
Apr 12th, 2010 by Una McCormack
Requiems for the Departed available for pre-order from here! Don’t miss out on the lovely limited run hardback edition!
Coming Soon: Requiems for the Departed
Mar 24th, 2010 by Una McCormack
Press release from Morrigan Books about their forthcoming anthology Requiems for the Departed, edited by Gerard Brennan & Mike Stone, in which I have a story:
Another great anthology from Morrigan Books and yet another fantastic cover from Reece Notley:
Edited by Gerard Brennan & Mike Stone
Requiems for the Departed
Irish Crime, Irish Myths.
Requiems for the Departed
Irish Crime, Irish Myths.
It has been said before, that every story has already been told.
Maybe so. But if you’ve got the gift of the gab, you can tell the same tale as often as you like and still give it a life of its own every time.
Requiems for the Departed flaunts that gift seventeen times over with top shelf stories from Ken Bruen, Maxim Jakubowski, Stuart Neville, Brian McGilloway, Adrian McKinty, Sam Millar, John Grant, Dave Hutchinson, and many more.
The children of Conchobar are back to their old mischievous ways, ancient Celtic royalty, druids and banshees are set loose in the new Irish underbelly with murder and mayhem on their minds.
Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1st June 2010
Requiems for the Departed
Stories:
Queen of the Hill – Stuart Neville
Hound of Culann – Tony Black
Hats off to Mary – Garry Kilworth
Sliabh Ban – Arlene Hunt
Red Hand of Ulster – Sam Millar
She Wails Through the Fair – Ken Bruen
A Price to Pay – Maxim Jakubowski
Red Milk – T. A. Moore
Bog Man – John McAllister
The Sea is Not Full – Una McCormack
The Druid’s Dance – Tony Bailie
Children of Gear – Neville Thompson
Diarmid and Grainne – Adrian McKinty
The Fortunate Isles – Dave Hutchinson
First to Score – Garbhan Downey
Fisherman’s Blues – Brian McGilloway
The Life Business – John Grant
Stories:
Queen of the Hill – Stuart Neville
Hound of Culann – Tony Black
Hats off to Mary – Garry Kilworth
Sliabh Ban – Arlene Hunt
Red Hand of Ulster – Sam Millar
She Wails Through the Fair – Ken Bruen
A Price to Pay – Maxim Jakubowski
Red Milk – T. A. Moore
Bog Man – John McAllister
The Sea is Not Full – Una McCormack
The Druid’s Dance – Tony Bailie
Children of Gear – Neville Thompson
Diarmid and Grainne – Adrian McKinty
The Fortunate Isles – Dave Hutchinson
First to Score – Garbhan Downey
Fisherman’s Blues – Brian McGilloway
The Life Business – John Grant
Pre-orders can be made soon
Unreality-SF.net Story of the Year!
Mar 19th, 2010 by Una McCormack
I’m delighted to say that The Never-Ending Sacrifice won the Unreality-SF.net Story of the Year Poll!
Unreality-SF.net Story of the Year Poll
Mar 8th, 2010 by Una McCormack
The shortlist for the Unreality-SF.net TV tie-in of the year has been posted, and splendidly The Never-Ending Sacrifice has made the list.
The full list is:
Being Human: The Road by Simon Guerrier (novel)
Farscape: D’Argo’s Lament by Keith R.A. DeCandido & Neal Edwards (comic book)
Doctor Who: The Angel of Scutari by Paul Sutton (audio)
Doctor Who: The Final Chapter by Russell T. Davies & Benjamin Cook (nonfiction book)
Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks by Trevor Baxendale (novel)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Never-Ending Sacrifice by Una McCormack (novel)
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Losing the Peace by William Leisner (novel)
Star Trek: Vanguard: Precipice by David Mack (novel)
Supernatural: Heart of the Dragon by Keith R.A. DeCandido (novel)
Torchwood: In the Shadows by Joseph Lidster (audio)
Voting open till next Sunday, the 14th. Go and vote!
Conflicts available for pre-order
Feb 7th, 2010 by Una McCormack
The Conflicts anthology, which includes my short story “War Without End”, is now available for pre-order at the NewCon Press website. You can see a preview of the cover there too.
The anthology is going to be launched at Eastercon in April. Hope to see you at Eastercon if you’re going!
Evil Matriarchs and Magnificent Bastards
Jan 29th, 2010 by Una McCormack
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!
Una McCormack
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