Between the time I left the office and arrived home, Mr. Pacione posted a new rant on his Blogspot. Wondering what the furor was about (topic du jour = Karen Koehler), I took a look at Covenhouse. Karen didn’t even mention Pacione by name; she was speaking in general about shysters in the publishing industry. He left her this comment:
I felt compelled to leave a comment taking Nicky to task for jumping to conclusions. Here’s my feeling on that: generally speaking, comments that have nothing to do with the entry have no place on someone’s personal blog. Comments that are antagonistic toward the owner of a blog have no place being left there unless the blog owner specifically criticized the commenter. Mine was the former of the two. On one hand I feel guilty for not commenting about the issue of agents, but I’m not a writer, and wouldn’t be able to intelligently comment about them. On the other hand, Pacione deserved a slap-down for his unwarranted attack on Ms. Koehler. (Sorry, Karen)
This is my assessment of Pacione’s Blogspot entry:
I guess it is clear now you really hate my guts, the fact you don’t mention me by name but I know you’re mentioning me by the fact my myspace profile is private.
Having a private profile has nothing to do with whether Pacione is mentioned by name. Having a shitty-looking profile page, which Pacione does, is common among emo-type teens, or even gamers, but is not the norm for someone in his or her 30s who purports to run a legitimate business.
You’re coming on here to start a war, yeah that will happen and your career will be the casuality of it.
Nobody can go on Mr. Pacione’s Blogspot to start anything, given that comments are disabled. The feedback form at the bottom of the main page is a friggin’ joke the way it’s worded.
I, for one, wish Ms. Koehler the greatest of success with her career; her Blackburn & Scarletti Mysteries are a very enjoyable read — a bit like Scully & Mulder, except that Mulder ain’t human. Mr. Pacione could never write anything that inventive and well-crafted.
A little Wiccan who believes in To Harm None, yeah I am using your belief system against you here.
Actually, he’s putting one more of his prejudices on display for all to see. He’s racist, homophobic, and against Paganism. So, how exactly would a self-described Conservative Christian use pagan rituals to destroy someone else’s career? And what the hell is so wrong with being a Wiccan?
If you were any kind of profesisonal you would not use your blog to carry a grudge with me.
She isn’t, as far as I can tell. Pot meets kettle. Kettle explodes. Mr. Pacione uses his blog to rant about Karen. He’s projecting again, as the shrinks would say.
November 27th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
BURN IN HELL! You will burn in hell for this β have you even read TABLOID PURPOSES IV. Or have you gained a pirated copy from one your asshole friends. You have no right to go around sabotaging my projects or anthologies. I donβt fucking care if you died by your own hand tomorrow and your works died with you. This is war cunt. You waged war β you got a war. You wanted a jihad, you got one.