By way of background, the short version is that Nicky received a story from Jeani years ago, and published it in TP4 without her knowledge. My sources have also confirmed that he published stories from Jeani in TP3 and EG3. When people called him out on Shocklines last week, he sent her $25 via PayPal, which she returned, and told him he could just have the story, provided he left her alone. Lake Fossil Press, however, remains on Jeani’s website on her warning/beware page.
Others in a similar situation might have made Lulu pull the book until Nicky could revise the manuscript to exclude the story in question. Others, in fact, have done just that. Jeani did what was expedient to get Nicky off her back and stop flooding her inbox. Nicky agreed to leave her alone in exchange for keeping the story. As we all know, Nicky never keeps a promise. Not for long, anyway.
So, Nicky posted this on Facebook:
What Jeani Rector did to me on her website might been a death blow to some other publishers, but it isn’t a death blow to me. I always bounced back from scandal. I am trying to make a strong return to editing anthologies and trying to do a relaunch of The Ethereal Gazette.
That raises a serious question. Why would a publisher have to keep bouncing back from scandal after scandal?
This isn’t the first story Nicky published from a contributor without informing the author that the story had been accepted. He’s done so at least three times to people other than Jeani.
This isn’t the first time Nicky has landed on somebody’s “not recommended” list as a “publisher,” either. He’s also on the not recommended list at Preditors & Editors (along with his new BFF Tabetha Jones, I might add). Does Jeani have more power than Dave Kuzminski?
Ralan banned him from posting submission calls several years ago. Nicky promoted Quakes and Storms as a charity anthology for Hurricane Katrina victims, and sold it on his Lulu storefront. He sent none of the proceeds to the American Red Cross, as he claimed he would. Initially, he used a famous National Geographic cover for Q&S, and only changed it after he received a letter from the magazine’s lawyers. Then he blamed someone else for ratting on him to NatGeo. You see, nothing is ever Nicky’s fault.
Let’s not even count the number of websites and forums from which Nicky has been banned, sometimes multiple times, for bad behavior and TOS violations over the years. There are way too many.
The list of scandals goes on; these are just the ones that come immediately to mind.
So many scandals …
Nicky: YOU”RE DOING IT WRONG!
He’s the Anthony Weiner of bad writerdom.
Yeah. Neither one can make a successful “comeback,” but it doesn’t stop them from beating the proverbial dead horse. And, they’re both obnoxious foul-mouthed assclowns. The main difference is that Nicky never was successful.
He’s got a new target today – he’s currently harassing Emma Audsley in the UK via email
I remember she made a few comments on his blog doubting the veracity of the Joe Lansdale blurb. Typical Nicky to focus on a woman when others were doing the same thing.
He’s also going after Lepplady in her comments section: http://lepplady.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/the-tact-and-taste-that-is-tabetha-jones/
From his Facebook regarding Horror.com apparently banning him.
“I made a comment about Ramsey Campbell being one of my nastiest critics and they saw this then threw me off like a red headed step-child.”
I can see I’ll need to step up my game. Though considering how civil Mr Campbell’s been to Nicky I don’t know why he’d be classed as among the nastiest, unless it’s the way his logic burns Nicky’s brain.
Any logic burns Nicky’s brain
Well Ramsey is the only one of his critics he has any respect for, and his comments have been some of the most caustic – no matter how civilly they were framed.
The acid words cloaked in politesse are worthy of any Southern Belle.
Damn, you’ve outed me!
I love this in his submission call:
“they must be heterosexual and not crossdressers (sorry I don’t find men in dresses appealing. I don’t mind a hot goth woman with an athletic body in a long black dress though.) ”
He is just screaming to come out of the closet.
I have visions of Nicky secretly taping RuPaul’s Drag Race, and watching it when Uncle Don’s asleep.
Thank you Nicky for more stuff to add to my blog about why NO woman should ever date a woman hating, disgusting piece of work like you.
I say find an androgynous person to do a photo shoot, submit it to him, and then a few months after he prints everything drop the truth hammer on him. With said persons permission of course.
I do a bit of costume work for a few local drag artists here, and I have no doubt that lil’ Nicky could easily confuse one of my friends for a real woman. (I know he thinks he’s clever about the adam’s apple thing, but he seems to not know that it’s not always noticeable. He’ll see boobies and think that must mean they’re legit!)
The real best bit is that model pic he wants? The model is to be wrapped up in bedsheets like a mummy with Richard Matheson books, any man with a feminine face could do it after a shave and some make-up just pull the covers up to their necks and Nicky would never know.
I wouldn’t put it past Nicky to check under the hood, so to speak, just to be sure. 😉
The aftermath of such an event occurring would be at least a year of entertainment. Especially if he talks about how attractive they are.
is it bad of me to think we should do our own version of Nicky’s beloved cover idea. With a really pretty gentleman posed like Nicky wants, but the books are authors he hates?
Notice how he continues to use his own personal fetish in the photo guidelines. Nicky himself loves bondage sleepsacks, and sleeps in one instead of a real bed, and he’s mentioned several times descriptions of similar devices being used in photo ops he’s dreamed up, and let’s not forget he offered the underaged TEEN model for his infamous cemetery shoot to change her clothing using HIS DIRTY NASTY SLEEPSACK. He wanted to watch her while she got naked ( in a cemetery) inside of his own personal sleeping bag, while he has a fetish concerning it and it’s uses…an underaged teen girl. Did I also mention he wanted her to pose in bondage clothing?
Does anyone else see an issue with this?
For which he blew $300 worth of his dole check. Don’t forget that part.
Gross. What is it with him and sleepsacks? I read another story by him last night shere the woman just happens to have one on her and crawls in. I bet he has never washed it either.
*its, gee whiz…