Archive for July, 2011

All Books Now Available In Sony Reader, Nook, iBook, and Kindle Formats

The new store is here. As I just mentioned, I do get a better cut on sales from this store, (which also includes versions readable on your Kindle) than I do at Amazon. Enjoy!

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Here’s The Alternate Cover Possibility for “Bank Robbery”

Let me know which one you like better.

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Dreams of Flesh and Sand Now Available in Sony Reader, Nook Format

I’ve just begun converting files into other formats, and started off with the Kindle .prc format (you can read this on your Kindle reader just as if you bought it at Amazon) as well as a version in the .epub format, which you can read on the Sony Reader, Apple iBooks (on iPod, iPad, and [...]

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Will The Books Be Available in Formats Other Than Kindle?

Short answer, yes. Longer answer:  I have to generate different formats for Sony Reader, Nook, and whatever else looks useful.  Once that is done, I need to build my own store to market the books, which will probably be accessible through a link located at this blog. As soon as I have it put together, [...]

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Here’s The New Cover for Bank Robbery

I’ve been using GIMP on Ubuntu 11.04 to make my own ebook covers. The learning curve was a little steeper than I liked, but once I got the hang of it, it started to get fun. I may put up a tutorial on how to do it, if anybody is interested. Once you understand it, [...]

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Better Than I Thought

I’m starting to digitize my short fiction – my method is to use Nuance Naturally Speaking to read the story into Word, and then turn it into an ebook from there – and the first story I picked was one I wrote in 1988.  It was published in Analog SF in 1989.  In it I [...]

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Update on The Fall of the American Republic: Death and Destruction

This book, volume one of the trilogy, is now in the neighborhood of 400 manuscript pages, and is nearing completion. It is an ensemble tale, with several different plot lines, each dealing with a separate group of people in various parts of the country. I expect to have the first draft completed within two weeks. [...]

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The Digital Bookstore Is Now Open

Here’s the link: W.T. Quick’s Digital Bookstore The link will also be permanent in the site menu right below the header graphic. Enjoy!

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Welcome to Writing World of W.T. Quick

I’ve got blogs for every other damned interest of mine in the whole wide world, or so it sometimes seems to me, and yet, after spending most of my adult life as a writer, the past 35 years professionally, it suddenly occurred to me that I might want to dedicate a blog to…well…writing.  And all [...]

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