Or Hellium, as Nicky calls the place in his latest blog entry. His blog entry mentions Brucha, Jim Smith, and White Serpent. All three are also named in his six page rant on Helium, along with:
- Ray Garton
- Tim Lieder, whose name he misspelled
- Poppy Z. Brite
- Karen Koehler
- Elizabeth Peake
- Stefan Wiles
This is the first time I’ve heard of a Stefan Wiles, and I haven’t heard the name Elizabeth Peake since the Xanga days (5-6 years ago). All the others have, at one time or another, left comments on my blog, and are very real.
Screen caps of the Helium article after the cut . . .
Someone’s really full of hot air, isn’t he?
Investigative journalist? BWAHAHAHS!! he can find his way out of a sleepsck, let alone investigate anything,
Holy wall of text….I couldn’t force myself to read even half of it.
Neither could I, Melany. I just screen capped it and skimmed for names.
I see he’s already gotten one of his entries at Shocklines deleted. I have the first paragraph or so of it from my feed reader, but it was gone when I went to look at the rest of it.
He’s got Eye In Shadow up for sell. I think it’s hilarious that he says he wrote it to take heat off his publishers.
My biggest laugh came after this line: “…I write like a man on the edge and if anyone has the common sense, they will not mess with someone who can truly beat the living daylights out of someone.”
I sure hope that first “someone” that Nicky refers to isn’t himself.
Nicky couldn’t beat the living daylights out of a bag of marshmallows.
I *was* going to make a really bad joke about only being able to beat himself off (or nothing larger than that, at least), but I didn’t want to leave you all with that image…. 🙂
The blog entry has an absolute gem as well, I absolutely love this little excerpt.
“Making Harry Potter into a flaming faggot — If J.K. Rowling read that shit, she would have the same reaction that I have. I don’t like when they make her copyrighted characters into flaming faggots, someone has to speak up for it because she’s a Christian. You don’t do that to a Christian writer.”
So does Nicky know Dumbledore’s gay? Or that J.K. Rowling is apparently perfectly happy with people writing fanfiction as long as it’s not obscene according to a release made in 2004 from the literary agency that represents her.
I absolutely adore the way he’s referring to his latest batch of crazy as “an article he got published”. In the bizarre little universe inside his head this probably counts as “getting published”. I’d love to take a miners’ helmet and go spelunking inside Pookys brain. The scenery must be simply amazing in there.
I thought that was rather funny, too, Lewis. Aside from Nicky not knowing about Dumbledore, he implies that it’s perfectly fine to write gay fanfic as long as the original author isn’t “Christian.”
It’s marvelous — if you like cobwebs and guano.
I know it’s rather naughty of me but I couldn’t resist emailing him links to the appropriate BBC articles, I wonder if he’ll respond.
Has anyone noticed lately that when someone does or says something to him, he claims it’s because he won’t publish slash fiction? He could get mugged tomorrow and claim it was because he didn’t feature erotica in his books. How long before he retcons that stabbing incident so that his attackers are fans of slash who attacked him for not allowing gay sex in his books?
Yeah, Rusty, but the guano’s all dried up because the bats in his belfry moved out years ago.
That didn’t take long. His “article” on Helium is gone. Hooray for screen caps, right? He’ll probably blame me for getting it pulled, but I didn’t report him.
It’s gone already?! lol
Like others here, I couldn’t be bothered to read it. I just skimmed it for names.
A shiny nickle to anyone who can tell me how Ray got brought into this again.
Maybe Nicky’s been flipping through his little black book again?
BTW, am I the only one who sees the hilarity in the fact that there are huge ads for Seroquel on the pages of his former article?
Nicky just circles around in the emptiness of his own head, a name pops into it and BANG
Always thought Helium had higher standards than that, and am glad they removed the article.
I do want to hear more about baring false witness, though.
Sounds interesting.
I sent Helium an email to “take a closer look.” Don’t know if I’m the only one though…
Twerpy still has an account there too. Only one article, where he drops the names of people who don’t know him talks about a book signing. It’s harmless stuff, ‘cept for the advice he gives:
“Smile – yeah right if you write horror, and especially hardcore horror don’t smile. Just give people dirty looks if they never seen a Gothic writer before.”
Well after looking at you, Nick, they still haven’t seen a Gothic writer.
LOL. Very true.
I emailed them also. It usually takes more than one complaint to get people to actually look.
Back when he was doing the Associated Content articles, Nicky was still accusing me of plagiarizing him and Robert E. Howard.
In 04-05, when NIcky was rabidly accusing me of plagiarizing him, he still thought I was a horror author.
Here’s the one thing that both Nicky and Dagswine can’t understand about the tradition of writing your enemies and ex’s into your fiction:
It’s not about getting even with them or hurting them personally. It’s about the author gaining a bit of personal satisfaction. It’s cathartic for the author, and akin to burning someone in effigy (another grand old tradition).