It seems rumors are floating around that Nicky did not receive permission from Ray Faraday Nelson to reprint “Eight O’clock in the Morning” as the lead story in Ethereal Gazette 12. Nicky posted two entries on his WP blog denying this, here and here, and claims Nelson was thrilled to receive $30 for the reprint rights, but can’t provide back up. True to form, Nicky’s been busy deleting comments challenging his dubious assertions.
I refer you to Brian Keene’s entry on the subject for further information. There’s no point covering the same ground here. I will, however, post the much easier to read original full size screen shot behind a cut. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Man, I love They Live.
Its so obvious it was a Nicky edit! It even has his rambling, self-promotional style splattered all over it like a cumshot!
It does. Nicky was banned once before for vandalizing Wikipedia pages, and creating (and recreating every time the mods deleted it) his own page there, as if he were a famous author. Does the fact that his “np1976” username shows up in red, and leads to no user page mean he’s been banned by Wikipedia again?
Maybe. I know on the talk page he told the editor to F—g put his comments back up. That would seem to get you banned.
I’ve come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass…
And I’m all out of ass.
In one of Nicky’s new wordpress entries he just said “F**k yo mamma” to Ramsey Campbell.
I…I… http://i.imgur.com/chkwy.gif
Hard to believe that just a few months ago, Nicky was kissing Mr. Campbell’s butt. Now he is pretending to be a badass doberman when, in the real world, he is the fluffiest little poodle ever!!!
Nicky a fluffy poodle? He’s more like a drooling snaggle toothed ankle biter of a mop dog. Picture Cesar Millan fending him off with a tennis racquet or a broom.
Nicky isn’t smart enough to be a poodle they’re actually a pretty intelligent breed for all their silly poofy grooming :p
Well, he did mention in a recent tweet he grew up in a suburb where the gangs…um…sort of came over…from time to time…probably to catch a bus…and he’d have to get real dark to survive. Yo! He spent 15 mins in a bad neighborhood, so now he has gangsta speak in addition to Canadian.
More likely the scent of his fat flop-sweating ass kept the gangsters at bay…
I just had an image of him in some low hanging jeans….thanks
Nikki’s latest posts are…sort of infuriating. And the fact he keeps removing comments is annoying.
On a whim I did I search on the Edgar Allen Poe Museum in Richmond Virgina (I assume this is the one he means) to check their book sales. Oh gee…Where are Nikki’s books? Didnt he say they were sold here?
http://www.poemuseum.org/shop/index.php?route=product/category&path=37
They’re not sold in the gift shop. Supposedly, the first one he sent them, unsolicited, made it into the reading room collection, which is not on any regular tour, but is open by appointment for people who want to read and/or do research there at the museum.
The thing is, the number of his books that he claims are in the collection seems to multiply like rabbits every time Nicky tells the story.
That is a truly awful mental image. All of Nikki’s literary works mating and producing misbegotten, twisted offspring like some sort of inbreeding process of the damned. Sort of reminds me of Shub-Niggurath, or maybe in this case: Shub-Nickorath. 😛
Now, don’t do that … I just sold some Viking goat-smut to a Shub-Niggurath anthology … don’t go making it all yucky …
Apologies. Humbly.
Of course, Brian Keene’s book The Conqueror Worms (donated by me) is in there now too- AND the acquisition was mentioned in their newsletter. No mention of Nicky…ever, even though he keeps posting his self-promotion all over their tumblr page which they just stopped using.
Rusty is right his book was rejected for the gift shop, so it was put in the library (as he already sent it in) b/c it had a Poe story in it as there was nothing else to do with it. Then Nicky actually had the nerve to send them a bill for it (a non-profit museum) after they accepted it like a donation, so they had to pay him for it. I spoke with the curator myself in tracking down his story, so this has been confirmed. The museum only ever bought the one b/c he sent it to them and billed them later.
I have a sneaky feeling Keene’s book has toppled Nicky’s book off the shelf- and that Nicky’s was probably placed in between the fan ficton he loves so much way way out of reach.
Was that one of Nicky’s infamous PayPal invoices? He used to send them to his enemies for hundreds or thousands of dollars because he got pissed off at something he read. Nobody ever paid them.
In the case of the museum, it couldn’t claim fraud, because it did have Nicky’s donated book, but I would have asked for Nicky’s snail mail addy, ostensibly to mail a check, but then returned the damn book instead. USPS third class/media rates would have been cheaper than paying for an unsolicited book.
Was Nicky’s tale about the curator buying two more books from him when he visited just another lie?
Yep.
Wow the picture in his new WordPress blog, the text is the usual mishmash of insults with the revelation that Brian Keene is copying him because Nicky wore a metal shirt in 2003… Seriously though put down your drinks and go take a gander at the photograph he used, it’s amazing.
It is. He titled the photo “psychosmile.” At first, I thought he was showing off the contents of a box of Chiclets, but realized they’re way too yellowy to be candy coated chewing gum.