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 the stuff that goes with it, at least in my world, which one inventive cover blurbist once called “The Daydreams of W.T. Quick.”

So…okay, maybe I don’t daydream as much these days.  In fact, there’s not very much at all dreamy about the state of trade publishing at all right now.  Nor, frankly, has my own personal writer’s universe been all that peachy keen for the past several years.  For one thing I, who once wrote ten novels in twelve months, and who scoffed at those pathetic slackers who claimed they were suffering from writer’s block, came down with – you guessed it – writer’s block, and not just any garden variety version of the malady.  This was an an icy iron clamp that shut me down cold for six years – at least when it came to commercial writing.  Oh, I was able to continue babbling on my blogs – hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of words, dozens of novels worth of words, in fact, yet not one of them ever went anywhere near a paying publisher.  As it turned out, though, I wasn’t really suffering from writer’s block, just a shortfall of courage and toughness, and so I am writing for publication at novel length again.  At some point I’ll explain what I mean by all that, and how I pulled myself out of that year’s-long funk.

But that is a tale for another post, and we can talk about it then.  In the meantime, I’ll keep on adding info about my writing to this blog – I’ll be opening a new digital bookstore where I’ll be releasing most of my original cyberpunk books at a $2.99 price point (Why 2.99?  Well, that’s another post, isn’t it?), as well as all my short fiction published in Analog, Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine, Amazing, Weird Tales, and other venues.  I’m also going to re-issue books written under the pen name Margaret Allan, as soon as I can get around to digitizing them.  The shorts are going to be 99 cents a pop, $2.99 for collections of five, and the Allan books will also be 2.99.  All of these books will be DRM-free.  I hate DRM, and I think most of you do, too.  Anyway, just as soon as everything is ready to roll out, I’ll post here to let you know.  The digital store should open within a couple of days over at Amazon Kindle, from the way things look right now.

So…aside from flogging my own books, what else is this place for?  Well, talk, mostly.  Chat about writing, about science fiction, about publishing, about the future, and anything else that crosses my – or your – mind.  And if you think my vision for this site is just a wee bit hazy, well, I can’t say that I’d want to argue with you.  Call it a work in progress, then.  Those are the best kind anyway.  Unless you’re Stephen King, and finish off your life’s work with the biggest copout in the writing world, the “and then I woke up and it was all a dream” explosion of flop sweat.  Yeah, that’s yet another post, right?

So I look forward to chewing the fat with those of you who want to hang out here, as well as inflicting upon you the occasional rant or three.  We’ll see how it goes.

All right, let’s get started!