Hat tip: Lewis
Nicky has released The Fandom Writer 2, a Twilight Zone fanfic, on Lulu. The price is a mere $7.50 for 53 pages. It’s dedicated to Bridget Knox, who published his first Fandom Writer, Carol Sullivan, who is one of Nicky’s regular contributors, and — get this — PublishAmerica.
Here’s the intro (emphasis mine):
Twelve years after the events of The Fandom Writer there is a new character of who had not learned from the horrors that became of Alice Thompson within the fate of the first Fandom Writer. Now the horrors unfold in bizarre and macabre ways the carefree gossip blogger and plagiarist who bastardized the characters of authors from In The Depths roster – this time the horrors unfold from the best friend of the writer from the first story, a pawn shop owner with a learning disability who documents the strange things as they are conceived before her eyes. She doesn’t know if she was comatose, dead or alive as they unfolded before her. The story pays a strong homage to Rod Serling and Wes Craven, author Nickolaus Pacione steps back in as playing Rod Serling’s role within this tale of the Cthulhu Mythos crossing over with his Library of Bones Mythos. The story is a follow up to the most notorious story of my catalog.
Naturally, it has has the masturbatory revenge fantasy elements of the original Fandom Writer. Characters include Sarah Elise Cox, Albert Joseph Poe, Thomas Michael Willard, T.J. McKeenam (sic), Dick F. Sinu, Dick E. Sinu, and Leanne Washington. I’m fairly sure that Dick F. Sinu has a typo, and there’s only the one Dick Sinu, with an E. The preview is here. The story itself starts on page five of the preview. The italicized setting and first paragraph scream FAN FICTION. And, yes, he’s selling it on Lulu.
I love this line:
She was disturbing a sick man’s mind — a sick man who has an imagination that can unleash a Cerebus.
Wow. I’d love to be able to unleash a three-headed canine bus driver at will. Think of the possibilities. At the very least, I’d probably never again have to pay a bridge, tunnel, or highway toll.
I’ll give the porcine one credit for one thing, though. He obviously saw the video critique of his book cover. This time, hideous though his front and back covers are, he left some bleed space. The front cover is one of his colored pencil drawings. The back cover is his usual hodgepodge of unreadable fonts, but at least he didn’t call his company Lossil Fossil Press this time.
Oh, lest I forget, his Africanized killer bees are back! Whee!
“there’s only the one Dick Sinu”
*cue Highlander theme*
Here we are, born to be kings,
We’re the penises of the universe…
“a new character of who had not learned from the horrors that became of Alice Thompson within the fate of the first Fandom Writer”
WHY DIDN’T YOU READ THE FIRST BOOK, OH RETARDED NOD TO HARDCORE PAWN? You could have saved yourself a dark and confusing fate!
Oh look, the little howler monkey learned something after all these years of fail. Maybe if he tries really hard he might become competent in grammar and spelling within the next ten years…
Naaaaaah. That’ll never happen.
Nicky’s also got a new whining screed up on his codexed account that I don’t have the energy to plow through. Something about having nightmares when he’s sick. Typical.
I had real trouble getting past the perambulating dreams in the very first sentence.
It’s like he’s allergic to subject/verb agreement.
I see Nicky’s learned a new word. I keep hoping that someday he will learn definitions and proper usage of his new vocab acquisitions, but I’m afraid my hopes are in vain.
I think you’re giving Nicky too much credit, Rusty. I’m sure the bleed space he left on the cover was a total accident on his part.
This POS doesn’t pay homage to Rod Serling, it rips him the hell off. Nicky’s casting himself as David Boyer, more like. Come to think of it, I believe “Twilight Zone” is still under copyright. Perhaps Lulu should be made aware of the possible copyright infringment in this work…
I’m going to alert them about the fact they’re publishing fan-fiction, which is a direct violation.
“Cerebus”?
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Oh, god, someone PLEASE unleash the wrath of Dave Sim on Princess Sparkle Pony.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Santa?
Where does he find these horrific, unreadable fonts?! And Cerebus might be one of his better typos! LOL
It’s at this juncture I must stand up and object!
Why should barbs be directed at the involvement of those adorable, over-aggressive man-made crossbreeds of the European and African honey bees. It’s hardly their fault that the scrofulous hand of Pacione saw fit to involve them in ‘Insect’.
Still, let us redress the balance. Pray consider that great raconteur Frank Key’s brief nod to the species in ‘The Pabstus Tack Trilogy’. http://hootingyard.org/archives/181
And some drivel on his blogspot about people wanting him to quit and go work at McD’s …
a.) EEW, no thanks.
b.) Could he pass the food handler’s permit test?
I dunno, it’d make a pretty impressive dare. Eat and finish a burger prepared by Nickolaus. Run the gauntlet of campylobacter, norovirus, E. coli, bacillus cereus and all the rest…
There’d need to be some kind of reward at the end of it. I doubt somehow that bragging rights would be sufficient.
Now, I know they just brought back FEAR FACTOR but you go too far, sir! Too far!
Oh, I’ve got miles left in me yet!
And I turned him into Lulu for Copyright Violation in addition to tagging it.
I do believe I’ll be contacting the holders of the Twilight Zone Copyright additionally.
Fat little fuck needs to get ass raped.
He really loves the term “pinching a loaf” doesn’t he?
The amount of times somebody defecates on something in Nicky’s “work”, both the so-called fiction and the usual stream of hate speech, seems to indicate another horrible fetish.
I love that, in one of his new blog entries, he says he’s sad that he can’t give Christmas to his family. The very next sentence says how happy he is to have his computer fixed.
Priorities sure do speak of character, don’t they?
Yeppers. It is indeed illegal to make money off fanfiction.
As of now, the book has five one-star ratings with reviews. Yet, the book overall has 1.5 stars. Did Nickypoo go and give himself an anonymous five star rating?
There are some suspect votes over on his blogspot as well. He’s not above doing a Dagstine (praising his own work on Amazon) so I would guess he did what he has done dozens of times in the past, which is to give his own work the highest possible rating.
Yes, he did. The number of reviews that appear, and the number of starred reviews do not match up. It can be the only answer.
Regardless, I reported copyright violations and TOS violations under three different accounts. I hope it helps.
It says it has been rated 8 times but received 5 reviews. Hmmm….
Simple seventh grade algebra:
1.5 = ((5 * 1) + (3 * x))/8
12 = 5 + (3 * x)
x = 2.33
The extra three ratings averaged 2.33, so if one of them was a five star, the other two were far less.
I gave it a one star rating but didn’t leave a review.
Ah. That means 6 = 2 * x, so the remaining two averaged 3 stars. If the Nickster gave himself five stars, then the remaining mystery rating was a one star. ROFL.
Nicky did give himself a five, I noticed it when I was tagging last night.
I gave him a one star on it
I’d give his stuff a negative star rating if I could!
And I reported it! (You knew that I would!)
$7.50 for 53 pages.
Now if it was a halfway decent story, I’d recommend it to be uploaded on amazon for a .99 cent Kindle download. It’s far too short to charge that much, period. Aside from the fact that his writing is complete shit, at least give SOMETHING for the money. Mass market paperbacks don’t cost that much so why would anyone consider paying over 7 bucks for just a few pages?
“She read about the author Albert Joseph Poe and would often do videos on youtube.com setting the short stories in anthologies on fire that he appeared in. She didn’t realize some books she burnt have supernatural powers, almost if they had a curse to them ”
FALSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCNxtCUssTA
The supernatural powers – also known as Retardus Textus – are exorcised before they are burned.
Yeah, don’t just review him, but report the book for copyright violation (The Twilight Zone franchise), and a violation of TOS for publishing fan fiction for profit.
I reported it for the cheesy bats he has on the back cover.
“This book doesn’t seem dark and gothic so I…OMG TWO BATS!”
OMG, how did I miss the tags on this book?
“Lovecraft Poe and Serling are rolling in their graves at being included but the dynamos I attached will power my doomsday device”
Brilliant!
Revenge Fic, bad writing, Trademark Violation, Hated On Shocklines, Mary-Sue, Poor Spelling, Bad Twilight Zone fanfic, This shit is going to get pulled off from LULU!!!, Gay, Lovecraft Poe and Serling are rolling in their graves at being included but the dynamos I attached will power my doomsday device, worst preview since the Twilight trailer though admittedly more homoerotic, Poor Fan-Fiction, The Adventures of Kevin the Unicorn Man, David Boyer, i write like a retard, Watching Siblings Shower, Pedo Bear, shame you can barely read the front cover, Copyright Violation, unicorn porn, homoerotica, My Little Pony, rubber duckie luv, Butt Sex, Twilight Zone Fan-Fiction
Aw man the reviews are gone! >_<
He made a couple of changes. The explicit reference to The Twilight Zone in the first page is gone and he increased the font size as well for some reason, probably to pad out the number of pages.
Doesn’t make him any less guilty of copyright infringement and he’s still a hypocrite. He still mentions playing Rod Serling’s role and is lifting the monologue directly from The Twilight Zone. And he talks about others not having any original thoughts? Please! Pacione must be gay, because he suck’s Rod Serling’s ass in this book.
I will also mention the use of trademark “tarnishment”, he is using a trademarked product without the express consent of the company. There is some gray area here because of the parody clause allowed in copyright infringement, but it is my understanding that (for example) Mercedes Benz logos were digitally removed from cars in the film Slum Dog Millionaire when the manufacturer objected to the depiction of its cars in Bombay slum settings.
The same could be brought up concerning ***something*** (I won’t reveal it here so dummy can try to figure it out on his own) that appears in that book.
*A message to Nick, IT IS STILL FAN FICTION, even if you removed The Twilight Zone franchise name from your text! RETARD!
Aww. Nicky finally got around to leaving a comment on an old blog entry. It took him less than a week, this time.
http://www.the-rusty-nail.net/wordpress/?p=5651#comment-27054
Evidently, someone doesn’t like us. 🙁
He had a pop at me on Twitter today but when I tried to reply I found he has me blocked. Cowardly little shit.
Anyway, he was saying that because he was in an online publication that I also had stories in nearly fifteen years ago, it proves that he can “hang” with me. That’s an image I need to wash away quickly.
I saw that. He’s been positively manic on Twitter the past day or so.
He also claims he got a Gravatar account so he could “comment on WordPress.com blogs.” Presumably, he meant this one, given that he left a comment here using his Gravatar avatar after he registered there. Registering with Gravatar is completely unnecessary, of course. That makes me wonder how many times he’s contacted WordPress.com, demanding that they shut down this blog.
And now the little turd has accused me, and two other people, on Twitter, of being “a fucking plagiarist.”
I’d sue if I thought he was mentally competent.
I particularly like this one:
It’s very confessional.
That’s a tack he’s tried to take with me, along the lines of how if I’m insulting and being mean to him, I’m also insulting and being mean to everyone who he’s “published” or who’s “published” or “appeared alongside” him …
… and some of THOSE people are connected to stuff I’VE been involved with or my kid has, so by extension I’m insulting and being mean to myself and her and won’t I be sorry THEN neener-neener-serves-you-right-bitch …
… but, of course, in his convoluted so-called reasoning, the reverse must not hold true … otherwise, everything he slings at me, by the same token, he’s slinging at himself.
Wow. Now I have a headache.
Page 8 of the preview is the best part of the book.
It’s blank.
He’s such an ass. He was extremely stupid to make that wall post on Weird Tales fb page
Nothing new there. Pretty much every post he makes, anywhere, is stupid for one reason or another.
The Weird Tales thing, he doesn’t seem to understand that submitting to them doesn’t automatically mean they’ll publish you, just because that’s his own practice for his publications. They reject very talented writers all the time, although I’m definitely not saying that Pacione has any talent. He definitely doesn’t.