Gosh, book-signings are fun!

W. T. Quick, a native of Indiana, lives in a rambling Victorian flat on Russian Hill in San Francisco. He is the author of twenty-eight novels, including the seminal cyberpunk cult hit DREAMS OF FLESH AND SAND (in which he invented The Matrix), the best-selling prehistoric thriller THE LAST MAMMOTH, a series of six novels entitled QUEST FOR TOMORROW co-authored with William Shatner, dozens of shorter works of fiction, and several screenplays for film and television.(See: Bibliography).

Quick's works include the hit series of prehistoric novels written under the pseudonym "Margaret Allan." The most recent in the series, SISTER OF THE SKY, was published by NAL/Signet in January of 1999.

Scans by Lavina Galbraith of Textor Communications and W. T. Quick of Iceberg Productions

In his Net persona W.T. Quick is The Judge, a figure well known for his acerbic humor on the Usenet news group misc.writing. He works from home in what is jokingly called his "legendary" office. His friends, both of them, call him Bill - and consider him a pompous ass for writing this entire page in the editorial third person.

W. T. Quick, with a tip of his fedora to Bob Dole, (and any number of sports heroes) doesn't give a damn.

	STAR CONTROL: INTERBELLUM, a science fiction epic, was released in early 1996 by Prima/Proteus Publishing.
Since 1996, W. T. Quick has been listed in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA. Since W. T. Quick was too stupid to earn any sort of higher educational degree, this, his only tangible recognition of any achievement, was one of his lifelong ambitions. So while he feels somewhat embarrassed about mentioning it, he will anyway.

On the stands in England from Corgi Books is AMERICAN GOTHIC: FAMILY. This is a "prequel" novel that delineates the history leading up to the storyline of the television series AMERICAN GOTHIC. Yes, all you Lucas Buck fans, you will finally discover how he came to be as he is - and it's not what you thought it was!

Here's a bunch of W.T. Quick's Good Old Stuff. Most of these are hard to come by of late, but if you click on one of the covers, amazon.com will find the book for you. Dreams of Flesh and Sand has recently been reissued as both a quality paperbook and as an eBook by e-Reads.com. Click on the cover to buy it. The rest of the G.O.S. will also be reissued shortly in both paper and electronic format. As soon as this happens, clicking on the covers will take you to the appropriate sites.

The fourth Margaret Allan novel, SPIRITS WALKING WOMAN, was published by Dutton/Signet Onyx in December of 1997. This book, and its sequel, SISTER OF THE SKY, are set in the Mesoamerican neolithic cultures of ancient Mexico.

The fifth Margaret Allan novel, SISTER OF THE SKY was published by Dutton/Signet Onyx Publishing in 1998. This book, set in the splendor of Teotihuacan, the greatest city of the ancient Americas, continues the tale of that line of mystic, marked women who sprang from Gay-Ya, (the creator of the mammoth stone) thirty thousand years before on the steppes of Asia.

A new science thriller, SILENT PLAGUE, was finished in September of 1997. It's about an extremely contagious virus that causes deafness, and what happens after the virus breaks out in San Francisco. A screenplay adaptation of this novel is also in the works.

Three years ago, W. T. Quick signed a deal to write the first novelization of previously produced X-Files screenplays. The initial adaptation in novel form of three of the first season's productions, titled ASCENSION, was delivered to Harper Prism in 1998 under Quick's pseudonym "Quentin Thomas." It has not yet been released.

In 1997, W. T. Quick contracted to write three original novels based on the new hit Fox television series ROAR. The first of these books, ROAR, was published by Harper Prism in early 1998 under a new pseudonym for W. T. Quick: Sean Kiernan. The second of this series, THE CAULDRON, was released in May of 1998. The third, THE TALISMAN, was published in late 1998. Welcome to Quick's ever-expanding case study of literary schizophrenia, Sean.

W. T. Quick's novelized version of the hit film The Hollow Man was published in 2000.

His latest effort at film interpretation, a novelization based on the Tim Burton film Planet of the Apes was published by HarperCollins in mid-2001. He has signed a contract for two more novels set in the Planet of the Apes universe. The first, titled The Fall, will be released early in 2002.

Writing with Richard Curtis, the well-known agent and e-publisher, Quick recently finished a non-fiction book for Writer's Digest Books called How To Get Your E-Book Published. The book was published in February of  2002. It will also be released in eletronic book format by E-Reads.com.

In 1998, W. T. Quick wrote a one hour teleplay for the Warner Brothers Network series MORTAL KOMBAT KRUSADES. The episode, "Noob Saibot," aired in November of 1998, with William Thomas Quick receiving sole "written by" credit.