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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃

@unamccormack.bsky.social

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NYT bestselling and BSFA & Scribe award-winning writer. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. https://linktr.ee/unamccormack

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 1h

Jenny that’s amazing

ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 4h

Both!

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Kenny Smith @finishedzine.bsky.social · 10h

💎NEW EPISODE!💎

We join the Doctor and her friends as they encounter people made from living rock, in an original #DoctorWho novel.

The fabby @unamccormack.bsky.social pops by to discuss writing for the Doctor, Graham, Yaz and Ryan.

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441: Molten Heart

We return to the Thirteenth Doctor in print for our latest book club edition. Author Una McCormack drops by to discuss writing for the Doctor, Graham, Yaz and Ryan. Plus, we feature excerpts from the

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 11h

Or maybe I should finally just get the hang of crochet.

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 11h

At that stage of sock knitting where I start buying wool for the next pair.

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 11h

Oh congratulations, Gautam!

ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 13h

What on earth is happening? #strictly

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 15h

a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money and the words shut up and take are above him

ALT: a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money and the words shut up and take are above him

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 15h

Oh yes I’d forgotten about that one 😮

ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 16h

Good question. We’re partway through S4 so I’ll report back.

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 16h

Also, it’s like conjuring with Gandalf the White. Who risks that? (Oh yes I remember who.)

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 16h

Unwise on Thiel’s part to invoke Alan Moore so lightly.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 18h

Excellently threatening energy from Deborah Findlay’s entry to the Puffin Post’s Concrete Poetry Competition.
A superb, subtle, sarcastic little poetic diss to the moon

Detail from a page from puffin post magazine black text on white reads, Deborah finally 13, the moon above a black outline of a crescent moon inside which is a poem that reads “poor moon, will you really shine so well when men step upon you and break your spell” under which italicised text reads a black and white copy of a charming painting by Deborah Findlay

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 18h

Yes!

ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 18h

I’m doing a few things on the Saturday and hope to see some of you there!

World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social · 18h

The Programme for World Fantasy 2026 is now live!

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Programme – World Fantasy Convention 2025

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 19h

Risky if it goes even a few feet wrong.

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 21h

The times call for it

ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 21h

John Major was a vice-president of the Trollope Society. Discovered his books in Brixton library.

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 21h

My favourite is 😒

ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 22h

Completely agree.

ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 23h

How?! How?!!!

ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 1d

The whole thing about ages made me think of Sid Waddell: “When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer… Eric Bristow is only 27.”

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 1d

This is why they picked Leo, isn’t it?

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 1d

I would mute if it was someone I knew. I only block strangers whose first post to me is irksome/rude/unpleasant, or bots.

ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 1d

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