Nicky Lies...Again

Nicky has a new entry on Blogger, and it is his typical whine fest. But this time I get a mention:

That is one thing I like about blogspot and wordpress, they don't censor anything but I wish they closed down The Crusty Rail or HorrorGal's blog because she supports piracy and stole a domain I was trying to get for my anthologies.

I stole a domain Nicky was trying to get? Funny, I thought I found out the name was available, registered it legally, paid for it, and set up a web site. If Nicky wanted the names, he should have simply registered them himself. And I have never, ever said I supported e-piracy - because I don't. End of story.

Further Rantings from Nicky Pacione

In my last post, I put up a conversation I have been engaged in with Nicky on Authorsden. After a bit of a lull, Nicky has come back with both barrels blazing and offered up some more lulz. I give you "further conversation with a deluded idiot": (warning bad language below).


Also, as I noted in my previous post, these messages were posted to my public message board on Authorsden.

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Posted by Nickolaus Pacione (author) at 8/18/2010 3:12:54 PM

You pissed on Barb's memory -- and the truth of the matter there she was my beta reader for An Eye In Shadows and the reason I was in the Stoker running was because of her. So yes I will bring Barb up to you because you're pissing on her memory and you're stealing my fucking characters you fucking cunt. You faceless sow -- cease and desist with your domain because you're fucking with Tabloid Purposes II when you're doing that.

So kindly let me publish my sequels in piece. If she didn't want anything to do with me she would have said so you fucking bitch. So kindly piss off and kill youself you fucking faceless whore.

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Posted by Nickolaus Pacione (author) at 8/18/2010 3:17:27 PM

Lake Fossil Press isn't a shit publisher and I am not a shit writer, you just fucking hate what I do and did with the company that much you heartless bitch. You need to not cross Watts because he is part of Lake Fossil Press and I will defend every writer on the roster except for Jane Timm Baxter who deservers every bit of my wrath as you deserve my wrath -- Barb is the reason that Tabloid Purposes II really took off and she had my back the entire time of it. I do consider Barb a good friend and you're shitting on her memory you fucking sow. Burn in hell you faceless cunt. Why do you want to destroy what I created from the ground up, you're encouraging plagiarism with GAME OVER when that novella isn't even done -- you do what you're doing. I WILL make you a horror target and make a mint off you.

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Posted by Nickolaus Pacione (author) at 8/18/2010 3:22:08 PM

Don't EVER put me in with PublishAmerica AGAIN. You're not published well I don't consider that shit book published you did -- that wasn't even funny and you're misleading Tabloid Purposes, and you wonder why I am so hostile with you. Well you STOLEN two of my characters to burn me -- Todd And Joanna Hollins of House of Spiders and for that I will use either your true last name or Wagner for your last name and go pro with it. I will Make a Mint on you if you want to keep FUCKING with Lake Fossil Press -- I worked with a lot of good writers and they're loyal.

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Posted by Jenny Torgerson (author) at 8/18/2010 6:57:16 PM

You were never in the running for a Stoker. Someone said one of your anthologies *should* be recommended, not that it *was* recommended. And frankly recommended (which your book wasn't) doesn't mean squat. Anyone can recommend any book. Heck, I could get "Tabloid Purposes: A Road Trip" recommended if I wanted to. Only the books which are "nominated" have any claim to the prestige associated with the award.

Lake Fossil Press *is* a "shit publisher" (to use your words). Just like PublishAmerica...except PublishAmerica makes money. Unfortunately. And your stories are ungrammatical and incoherent. If that's not the definition of shitty writing, then I don't know what is.

Regarding "Game Over"...YOU CANNOT COPYRIGHT A TITLE. Jeez, how many times do people have to tell you that?

Finally, I don't care if you use my name in a story. In fact, it's kind of flattering that you find me a muse. Will you at least send me a copy? Maybe I'll even feature it on my blog.

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I'll update this when Nicky gets back to me with more incoherent bitching.

Nicky added two more comments today, Friday Aug 20, around lunch time:

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Jenny Torgerson: PISS OFF I was actually recommended for the stoker.

Jenny Torgerson: you''re not getting a damn thing from me.

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I think someone is butthurt.

Nicky Dwells in Self-Pity

I've really had it with Nicky's delusions and nastiness. We're having beautiful weather here this weekend, and I have more productive things to do than read Nicky's whining crap about how he's been cyberbullied and abused. Those productive things include yard work, replacing my dishwasher, finishing stories for Janrae's anthology, going for a run, etc. All much more mentally healthy than dealing with Nicky-troll.

Until I return, I give you my conversation with Nicky on Authorsden. My message board at AD is public, although you have to be a member to see it (free sign-up), so these are not private messages I'm reposting.

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by Nickolaus Pacione (author) at 7/25/2010 9:16:11 AM

Yes your account is harassment. I am shutting you down. Kiss it goodbye like you forced me to lose my Xanga blog. Do you really hate me that much? Going after a story that isn't even available online or in print -- why the fuck must you go after those? ARe you really that much of a blackhearted bitch.

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Posted by Jenny Torgerson (author) at 7/25/2010 12:45:16 PM

Nicky, you lost your Xanga blog because you threatened to kill me. That's hardly the same as a poor review.

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Posted by Nickolaus Pacione (author) at 8/3/2010 1:11:03 PM

I guess you are really a blackhearted bitch.

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Posted by Jenny Torgerson (author) at 8/3/2010 2:22:34 PM

Nicky, I think you're over-reacting to a bad review.

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Posted by Nickolaus Pacione (author) at 8/4/2010 3:17:37 AM

Bullshit -- you come on as my fucking characters so that pisses me off. Why must you use my characters to do that you blackhearted cunt?

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Posted by Jenny Torgerson (author) at 8/4/2010 6:30:03 AM

Your characters? What are you talking about? Have you had a character named Jenny Torgerson in one of your stories? If so, it's pure coincidence because this is my name.

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Posted by Nickolaus Pacione (author) at 8/5/2010 7:24:35 AM

Listen you fucking FACEELES BITCH -- stop fucking with my characters such as Todd Hollins, now you got me suspended I am out for blood. I will find out who you really are and will press charges.

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Posted by Jenny Torgerson (author) at 8/5/2010 2:28:23 PM

Nicky, I did not "get you suspended" from that other site. You did it yourself by not following the rules and by cursing, fighting with others, and bringing off-site drama onto that site.

Also, I do hope you realize that my message board here is public. Anyone Googling you will find it and the threats you have been making. I may also have to add this to tabloidpurposes.com

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Posted by Nickolaus Pacione (author) at 8/6/2010 7:10:56 PM

Do you really hate me that much that you would destroy a 13 year career -- you're a dirty mod and I will get you pulled from NING.com. James told me how to do it. I will have you exposed as such. I just confronted somone for stealing my stories and shit like that telling him he needs to come up with his own fucking ideas such as you should do you fucking cunt and leave TABLOID PURPOSES alone. Let me do my GEMINI in peace instead of you taking a shit on the idea, you're also shitting on the memory of one of the biggest supporters of the books too. Yes you're shitting on Barb's memory by doing that domain.

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Posted by Jenny Torgerson (author) at 8/7/2010 7:26:46 AM

Nicky, wow, what a bunch of delusional horsesh...er crap.

Do I hate you? No, that would be too strong word. But ever since we met, you been nothing but nasty and spiteful to me and others that I know. You call me names, question my integrity, send me nasty e-mails, and cast aspersions on my character. You threatened to kill me and burn down my house after *you* made a mistake with your Lulu pricing. What have you ever done that I should like or respect you? Nothing. Honestly, I think you are a horrible excuse for a human being.

As to Ning, I seriously doubt they would remove someone for "being a bad mod" whatever that means. Besides, I think I'm doing a decent job over there.

Finally, don't bring up Barb to me again. I've heard from others that she was a classy lady who wanted nothing to do with you. My saying Lake Fossil Press is a crappy publisher that should be avoided is not the same as saying that everyone LFP published is a crappy writer. There's a difference between the business and the writers. Just look at PublishAmerica. Even they manage to snag good writers sometimes.

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Nicky has also been sending my PM's at WritersCafe. That site is down now, but I may post part of that conversation, too, later.

Nicky Plays Dictator

Nicky has been given admin powers over at Authorspub, and in less than 24 hours has just about destroyed the place. I feel bad for the James Watts, who started the Ning group, because all of the people who joined recently are leaving in droves due to Nicky's power-crazy shenanigans. Lets lok at some:

Todd Hollins had an "I [heart] my goat" avatar (see Todd's blog here in Blogger). Nicky removed it saying, "That is very wrong of a picture and this is a PG-13-light R rated venue. So kindly refrain from things that might be graphic with barn animals. The younger members don't want to see THAT." Hahaha. A candy heart is R-rated.

Todd has also posted a blog saying that he volunteered to be an admin. Nicky has deleted it and Todd has reposted something like four or five times now. Nicky apparently does not want the site owner to see it. Too bad that Todd also e-mailed it directly to James. And Todd was serious about trying to be a good admin, unlike Nicky who just wants to abuse people he doesn't like because in real life he is an impotent little troll.

Nicky also erased Sam's avatar, which was simply a picture of a woman with blood around her mouth. He left her this little nugget (scroll down to the bottom): "For your information for the next two weeks I will be locking all your threads, that's the consequence of insulting an admin. Treat the admins with respect, I mean all of them. I've seen what you called me so as cause and effect, I am resetting your picture because it's not PG-13 rated. When those two weeks are up, you will have access to the forums once again." Sam has put up another picture.

Nicky also locked all of Sam's forum threads and put tags like "insulting-admins", "disrespecting-admins", and "locked-thread". Way to go Vandalism-Nicky.

Nicky also doesn't like my review of Quakes and Storms in House of Horror Issue #14. He has this to say to Sam: "Well I think you're getting Quakes and Storms as a review and I read the review, it's insulting. I learned what you paid the author -- that's about as bad as not paying him. I personally demand about $10.00 per short story, and $35.00 for a novella. but I clearly won't be submitting to your mag anytime soon because you're too cheap for short stories ($5.00.) You have the same personality as Poppy Z. Brite. I am going to sponsor your former writers membership on AuthorsDen.com for the first year. You screwed one writer out of $50.00. Classy, very classy. Yep you're a troll. You can't type an e-mail without having a typo in it." BWAHAHAHAHA. Let's take a closer look at this:

---"I learned what you paid the author -- that's about as bad as not paying him." - Nicky is not one to talk about low payments - since he does more 4theluv anthologies than anything - or not paying. We all know that Nicky has a long track record of not paying contributors. Hell, he didn't even tell at least three of the contributors to EG10 that he had published them; that's one way to try to get around making promised payments.

---"I personally demand about $10.00 per short story, and $35.00 for a novella." - *snort* Nicky demands payment? Yeah, that's why he keep submitting to 4theluv projects. Hell, I probably made more last year off my writing (I won $35 for placing second in a fun little writing contest) than he did.

---"I am going to sponsor your former writers membership on AuthorsDen.com for the first year". - He does this instead of paying contributors that he owes money to?

---"You can't type an e-mail without having a typo in it." - Bwahahaha. *gasp* Sorry, had to do that. Nicky is the poster boy for abuse of the English language and has no business mocking anyone else's spelling.

Finally, Nicky has taken to making long rambling posts about his rules, his enforcement of the rules, sock puppets (I don't think that words means what he thinks it means), etc., etc., etc. - and then making them the featured blog or forum post. That's right, kids, it's all about Nicky. No one else gets to be featured or have a moment to shine. It's all Nicky, all the whine.

Nicky Writes Like a Woman

I was playing with some fun blog analyzers this morning and came across one called the GenderAnalyzer. I asked it to analyze this blog, and the result was:

We think http://horrorgal.blogspot.com is written by a woman (63%).

Yay! It did a pretty good job, because (obviously) I'm a woman. Just for fun, I tried Nicky's Blogspot blog, and the results were:

We think http://nickolauspacione.blogspot.com is written by a woman (67%).

Haha. It gets even better when I tried Nicky's Wordpress blog:

We think http://npacione.wordpress.com is written by a woman (83%).

So Nicky sounds like even more of a woman than I do. I'm not sure how the GenderAnalyzer works exactly, but I do find this amusing.

Anonymous Review of "The Ethereal Gazette #10"

The other day, one of the writers who had a story published in "The Ethereal Gazette Issue 10" posted on my blog about his/her dis-satisfaction with Nicky, Nicky's writing, and Nicky's lack of payment. This writer has written a review of the entire anthology. Here are some of the excerpts.

"I am one of the poor saps who had a story printed in The Ethereal Gazette 10. I sent Nickolaus Pacione my story before I knew his online reputation. I really do live under an internet rock.

I know I certainly won’t be sending him any other stories as I want the next thing I have published to have some kind of readership. I’ve been reading through the magazine and I think that there are some very good stories in there and it’s a damned shame that they’re tainted by the association with Nick P.

Having read Nick’s contributions I understand exactly why he gets his reputation but I want to do a fair review of the whole magazine, and each individual story to make sure the talent in there is recognised."

Just like PublishAmerica, even Nicky can pull in a few good writers who didn't check him out beforehand. Our anonymous reviewer also has a keen eye when it comes to the cover:

"And from the LFP logo at the bottom of the cover –

“Original Horror Ann Science Fiction For The Fans, By The Fans”

He has a typo in his f***ing logo!"

Go, Nicky. That must be one of those personal touches he was talking about in a recent blog post. The reviewer talks more about the horrible cover before starting into reviews of each story. He/she doesn't think much of Nicky's first entry in the anthology:

"This is a Nick Pacione story so you know what you’re in for.... A typical quote – “It was about four in the morning when I began to add everything up, and even then it just didn’t add up.”

This is such a badly written story it isn’t even funny. Can I give less than 0/10? It’s my review so yes. -5/10"

He/she doesn't think much more of Nicky's second attempt, "The Suicide Man":

"I’ll try to keep this short and succinct, but when you try to describe what’s wrong with a Pacione story, it’s easy to get carried away. This is the story he bigs up on the back cover, claiming it will be as controversial as Antichrist Superstar. Now we know why he does it. Just another example of his ego, his story must be the one we turn to first. It’s also the only story with illustrations – and they’re functional at best, which is more than can be said for the story."

The reviewer then makes some very salient points and concludes with:

"There are 16 separate references to the fact that Donna will burn in hell for committing suicide. The phrase “black, charred skin/flesh” appears 15 times in the story, despite its first appearance being on the page 4. The word fuck is referred to twice as the F-bomb.

Despite this being by far the worst story in the magazine - it took me two tries before I could lower my standards enough to read it all the way through - I’m going to give it 2/10 for being so damned funny."

I'm sure Nicky will try to deny that he wrote "The Suicide Man", but after recent revelations in an e-mail to AngryinIllinois, he won't have a leg to stand on.

All of the stories in the Issue 10 are reviewed, so I highly recommend that you check it out here. I'll have my own review up soon, as well. I'll post it at Scribd and at Authorsden.

Review Status Update

Happy Monday morning to everyone. I had a nice weekend enjoying the sunny weather and cool nights we've been having lately. I've been gardening, floating a nearby river, hiking, starting up running again, and designing a book cover with AngryinIllinois - all of which makes me a little tardy with some reviews. Here's the update:

1. I posted a review of QUAKES AND STORMS at Authorsden. This version is expanded from the one that is also posted at Lulu, because Lulu limits the amount of text you can post. Authorsden does not.

2. I have an anonymous review of THE ETHEREAL GAZETTE 10 to post. It's long, so I need to figure out the best way to post it. It may as a separate downloadable PDF with some of the best excerpts posted directly on my blog.

3. I have my own review of THE ETHEREAL GAZETTE 10 in progress. I just need to review my notes and finish writing it. It will be posted on Authorsden, with excerpts here.

4. I have started reading the July issue of THE DARK FICTION SPOTLIGHT. Review to come.

5. I took Christopher Jacobsmeyer up on the offer he posted on Rusty's blog the other night and requested a copy of DEATH ROLL by Kevin Brown. This is a short chapbook of about 80 pages, which I look forward to reading and reviewing.

I'm going to try to get to all these within the next week, but no promises.