Dear Nicky,
It has come to my attention through your myriad blogs and tweets that you think people want Lake Fossil Press to stop publishing. This is utterly false. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. It would behoove you to stop spreading such lies about your imaginary enemies, the vast majority of whom have done nothing more than point and laugh at your glaring cover typos, malapropisms, Freudian slips, etc.
We want you to continue to self-publish your drivel for a number of reasons. It’s even better when you go to a scam vanity press such as PublishAmerica to publish your solo efforts. Without further ado, I present the top 10 reasons why you should continue your publishing efforts.
- Nickolaus Ablert Pacione
- Lossil Fossil Press
- silly colored pencil drawings, worthy of a third grader
- recounting of nightmares that are less scary than a Beatrix Potter tale
- stolen National Geographic cover art
- hilarious errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and continuity
- the consequences you have to endure once authors have discovered that you published their stories without a contract, payment, or even letting them know they’ve been accepted
- publishing a story that Boyer plagiarized from another author
- Lloyd Phillip Campbell, Theo Wolfe, and Jason Trotter
- the sheer entertainment value of watching you document your every fail on your blogs, Facebook, etc.
Cordially,
TRN
Nicky provides a perfect example to folks new to the publishing business of the WRONG way to do it.
Even if we were to set aside all his spectacular publishing mishaps, there remains his penchant for having very public childish hissy fits, tossing out every gay slur he’s ever heard in Tourette’s-like staccato repetition. It’s not what I’d call professional, any more than his broken promises to pay his contributors — once he gets his next welfare check.
I’m still amazed that Nicky films videos in his *laundry room* and considers that in any way professional. A laundry room? Or huddled under a bush in his front yard?
I wonder if he films in weird locations so he doesn’t have to hear his family laughing at him.
I wonder how his family gives him unsupervised access to the internet in the first place. He is like an eight year old, and should be monitored.
I’ve always thought it was bizarre that he thinks WE want his “publishing company” to fold. We do NOT. His writing, as well as his public bitchfests on his various blogs and youtube videos provide endless entertainment for us!
Nickolaus Pacione definitely suffers from some form of persecution complex, and he has this thing where he likes to project his own feelings onto his perceived enemies. The truth is, he wishes WE couldn’t get published. He wishes other authors would mock us, in fact, he brags about how he wishes to expose us to ridicule from his friends….except he doesn’t have any friends, and the ones who do follow his Facebook page really aren’t all that concerned and couldn’t be bothered. IN FACT, many of the people he thinks are his friends on Facebook mock him themselves, but he’s too stupid to even realize this.
Pacione thinks a little too highly of himself and entertains grandiose ideas. His narcissism prevents him from seeing the truth. He sucks so bad at EVERYTHING, and his lashing out like a child makes for fun times. His attempts at sounding like a hardcore badass only come across as laughable!
Speaking of wishing WE couldn’t/wouldn’t get published; I’m proud to say that I’m finally getting my novel published. Belfire Press picked up Wolf Hunter and has it slated for a Sept. 2012 release.
http://belfirepress.com/
I know Mr. Pacione will still say that he beat me because he has more books out, for many years, while I’ve been shopping mine around. I’d rather be published well than have self-published dreck associated with my name (although, if I did self-publish, it would look a lot better than the books put out by Mr. Pacione). I am glad I waited, as now I can be published WELL. Belfire looks like a good company that is growing and I’m sure my book will outsell all of Mr. Pacione’s put together.
Congratulations, Jean-Loup. That’s fantastic!
Congrats! I’ve got one due out from Belfire next year too. Good stuff! Good folks! *high five*
It’s funny because it’s true.
SO funny and SO true, lol
Rusty’s list shows the one person who has been sabotaging Nicky’s former company and efforts: Nickolaus Pacione.
I think this Nickolaus Pacione character is probably a secret agent of the homosexual conspiracy!
Excellent list, Rusty! This is the TRUTH! Too bad Nicky is so delusional that he doesn’t know what the truth is anymore.
He’s jumped to conclusions about the situation because the boychild has no sense of humor. He doesn’t grasp the jokes behind the pics and messages that have been posted. He takes everything literally, and still gets everything wrong. This is why he doesn’t have any friends. I know he thinks he does, because his FB list tells him so…*snerk*…
He has no social skills, and sits all alone for months, aye, years! In front of his computer screen down in his dark, dank basement just wishing he had somebody who would listen to him and give him some validation that he is not the complete fuck up his family thinks he is.
A note to Nicky: shut off your computer for one day. Go outside and get some fresh air. Go for a walk. Think about how much your family has done for you, and what you could do to help out. Help out, meaning, do something good voluntarily without somebody paying you to do it. Promise yourself that you’ll stop lashing out at others, and focus on turning a new leaf. When you return to your computer, use it to do something good with your writing, that doesn’t have anything to do with your enemies. Write something, a real story, not some revenge wank. Run it through spell check and try to edit it a bit. TAKE YOUR TIME AND DON’T RUSH IT. Focus on your writing and ignore the stuff that bothers you, instead of posting homophobic hatred or libeling others. Just write.
You never know, you actually MIGHT create something worthy. But it’s NEVER going to happen as long as your main focus is on the bullshit you’ve been spewing for years.
Good advice, though he’ll probably never listen to it. Nick, get someone to help you with the basics, like subject/verb agreement. Don’t let your ego get in the way. Learn about story structure and, like Robin said, write some actual stories. Keep your head down, your mouth shut, and try to learn to be a good writer. Cut the filth, slurs, and threats and people will leave you alone.
Exactly.
He’s perfectly capable of shooting himself in the foot and sinking his “company” all on his own. His writing alone will see to that, not to mention the production quality of the results.
It’s far, far more the vile social behaviors.
That’s the thing, he thinks his work is great and that there are fans rabidly awaiting his next release to read how he kills off, or libels his enemies. The truth is anybody who reads his work can spot the glaring errors, and see that his writing is not up to snuff. Then consider, they have to read through all of the filth and hatred he spews when it really comes across as jealousy and revenge seeking.
He thinks readers are on his side, believing all of his lies but there comes a point when one can see through it when they read how repetitive he is, and how many different people are involved. Anyone can figure out that it is not a vast conspiracy against him. He is his own worst enemy! If he was only intelligent enough to realize the damage he is causing himself, AND HIS ROSTER, he’d cease the vile behavior.
But he won’t. He’s too stupid and stubborn. It’s all everyone else’s fault.
You have a point there. Nicky loves to claim that when we make fun of the errors in one of his publications, that we’re dissing his contributors, not his editing skills. In reality, he’s the one doing them a disservice with said skills that largely consist of finding unreadable fonts to use for them, not fixing errors, and all around incompetence.
I pity most of Nicky’s contributors for getting mixed up with the “I’m not an editor, but I play one on the internet” tyro. The ones I don’t pity are the ones (two in particular) who keep sending him stories time and again. By now they should know he’s not helping them gain any readers. Most folks wise up after the first mistake. The ones who don’t, just make themselves look as bad as Nicky ever could. Maybe they can’t move on to bigger and better things, but they could at least try.
AND he thinks that those two contributors that keep returning somehow validate him as a legit publisher. They don’t. If anything it makes them look just as much a “nitwit” as he. They don’t aspire to anything greater, and he contents himself with the delusion that he’s a real editor and publisher.
Apparently, he did take some of my advice relating to my death in Game Over. Although he still kept the totally uncreative name (though I’m sure that’s on purpose. Oh, God, I hope that’s on purpose!) he did fix the fact that a mental patient locked in solitary can’t get their hands on sharp things like glass, etc. Sadly, he still sidestepped reality by explaining the blood on the walls as “Janet Baxter” having chewed the ends of her fingers off – which we all know happens in modern day looney bins all the time… *sigh*
I work on a psych ward as a nurse. Padded cells and strait jackets long ago got replaced by a quite comfy device called a restraint chair. We store printer paper and depends adult diapers in the old padded cells.
The restraint chair denies all movement of legs and arms, is designed not to cause even bruises, it is heavily padded.
And you have to call an actual medical Doctor on the phone every 15 mins someone is in the restraint chair, and fill out a form for every 15 minutes of confinement to justify it with a documented danger to themselves or others. Typically, patients stay in there just long enough for their haldol injection to kick in and sedate them.
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/Graphics/338/12/338-1230105454-restraint-chair.jpg
Even in Texas, it has been about 25 years since anyone was allowed to use a padded cell on a psychiatric patient.
I take it your reply was directed toward JTB. After all, Nicky’s the one who keeps expressing fantasies about having his imaginary enemies placed in padded cells. You can feed him the truth, but you can’t make him keep it down.
Anyway, it looks like he’s either crashed after his latest two week manic episode, or his internet access has been restricted, if not cut off. Maybe his family has finally recognized his well documented pattern of getting himself into trouble around the Christmas/New Year’s holidays.
This is really interesting information; thank you.
Too bad Nikki is completely incapable of research or changing any of his out-of-date preconceptions based on solid information from people who know what they’re talking about. Which is one of the reasons his writing sucks so very, very badly.
the main problem with padded cells is that they accumulate contamination from feces and other bodily fluids to where the padding has to be replaced so often that it is prohibitively expensive. the unused padded cells we store paper in are the last generation, and they still smell really bad to this day. the lowest level orderlies used to get assigned to bleaching those walls down, but after a year they were basically permanently filthy and it cost around 15k dollars to have ripped out and replaced with new padding.
Hey Rusty,
I figured you’d be a good place to start in regards to promoting awareness that once again, Christopher Jacobsmeyer is stealing work (most explicitly, mine.) I’ve written up a blog post and if you want to farm it/repost it, I would REALLY Appreciate it, especially if anyone on the site knows what’s going on.
Thanks,
– Kody
Kody! Long time, no see. Hope you’re doing alright, aside from your ongoing tangle with Chris.
I’d like to reprint your blog entry, with proper credit, of course. It might be of use to a couple of my readers, given their ongoing interest in another chronic plagiarist.
Kody, I realize this is quite bothersome, but after reading your blog I think you might want to take a look at this article:
http://www.artbusiness.com/copfringe.html
You might be damaged on an emotional level, however financially you don’t have a leg to stand on. Can you afford to retain an attorney? I can understand your frustration but making empty threats will not help you in this case. You CAN get amazon to remove your work, but that will be the extent of it. I wish you luck in your fight against Jacobsmeyer and hope you find a positive resolution to this issue.