Hat tips: Naaman and Stinky
As we know, Nicky set up a crowd funding appeal on Give Forward, a site dedicated to fundraising for medical bills, for Monika Fugate. Of course, the fund wasn’t to raise money for medical bills, but to fund her backpacking vacation, so she could write a story for Nicky to publish, and to fund his own expenses. He briefly made mention that she once had a diabetes scare, as if to tangentially keep the appeal within some site guidelines.
The original appeal for $6000, of which Nicky intended to keep $4000 for himself, was taken down by site administrators, after a complaint was lodged. Never one to slink away after a royal smackdown, Nicky revised his appeal and started a new fund raiser for himself and Monika, this time for $3600. Note the areas I’ve outlined below in a screengrab. Additionally, what I pointed out in his previous appeal still holds with this one.
In his appeal, Nicky:
- has already bought her a dress
- suggest people donate to his PayPal account via his blog at Codexed
- talked about his own expenses in response to Give Forward’s suggestion that the appeal be as personal as possible
- still intends to split the money three ways with him taking 2/3
Because, this fundraiser is really all about himself, not Monika. I wonder whether this appeal fits Give Forward’s guidelines. There is no mention at all of any outstanding medical bills, just that she “had a diabetes scare.” None of the proceeds are to fund anything medically related.
I wonder if Stephen King and the others authors mentioned know they’ve been attached to Nicky’s latest scam?
I wonder whether Nicky will read this and decide to add a box of Band-Aids to the list of items on the Amazon gift registry he set up for her, or update the text on his Give Forward plea to include it. Seems like a far more useful item to have on a backpacking
vacationresearch trip than a smoky eyeshadow kit. Then again, we know how Nicky feels about eyes and shadows. 😉Beyond the surface humor of it- there is something very sick and sinister in Nicky’s mind. He is encouraging a woman to leave her kids, dress in a burkha, sleep out in the wilderness in presumably just a sleepsack, while lathering on goth eyeshadow and slipping into fishnet stockings and fur lined heeled booties when she needs to leave the sack to tinkle. I presume the Ethereal Gazette would be used as her TP.
Does he just fantasize about women being cold, alone, homeless, stuffed into a sleepsack and subject to rape and murder? This whole “stimulus” isn’t about helping a writer find her voice; it’s about him getting off fantasizing about a woman living out his “urban wilderness” fantasies. That and Nicky has bills to pay, or something.
I think this is all about him being so flattered that she called him a “famous author” on her FB that he’ll bend over backwards to “help” her, and while he’s at it, fantasize about her. After all, there is the camera/video documentation he wants to see of her trip.
Either she’s clueless about how illiterate and creepy stalkerish he is, or she figures she’ll milk it now for what it’s worth, and deal with him later. This could go one of three ways: 1) fizzle out like just about all of Nicky’s previous grand plans; 2) provide multitudes of entertainment, or 3) end really badly.
Yep all it takes is a single pleasantry to be exchanged for him to go off his rocker. Although I cannot see she’s gotten anything of value out of this exchange. A burkha for some unknown reason and some of his books. I don’t know who could endure that much Nicky for those meager gifts. I am confused if it is unwanted attention why she hasn’t publicly told him to retract this “fundraiser.” Surely by now she must know he’s throwing her name around.
Do we know that she’s even aware of her name being used for this fundraiser?
2014 May 26 Monika Fugate posted: “Just discovered my classmate and childhood friend, from when I lived in Illinois, is a famous author of numerous horror stories! Check him out! Nickolaus A. Pacione”
and she included the Lulu.com blurb.
2014 May 18 Monika had posted a new FB photo and 1 Jun NAP went back to comment “Nice photo — some black lipstick and some ash colored eyeshadow and you can be my Gothic bride…..” No reply from Monika.
This is a creepy, portending horror that only a Matheson or Poe could describe, or a Derleth or Lovecraft hint at, and it’s out there before the public. Like the point in the movie where you want to yell “Don’t open the attic door!” And oops.
I’m confuzzled?
He mentions Kody Boye – an openly gay man – without throwing any insults around. That’s not like Nicky
Good editing skills little Nikki has on display in this article
“I am teach a first time editor and a year three how to do year ten anthology — I am a year 24 writer, will be a year 25 in 2015 so I am trying to get everything for her”
With grammar that good he sure am teaching something. I isn’t sure what though…
How to be a complete failure as editor and writer like himself?
Yeah, any $$ would go 100% to Nicky for “expenses.” Of course, like all his other fundraisers the net will be 0. You’d think he’d get a clue by now.
So he needs $125 for his ISBNs yet spends close to $90 on a woman he hasn’t seen since high school. There’s seriously something dysfunctional about that. I bet he doesn’t even spend that on gifts for his family.
He doesn’t. In years past, he’s sent copies of his books and magazines, and used CDs or DVDs to his sister — basically stuff he no longer wanted, or of which he had spares. One year he even set up a chipin begging for money to buy Christmas presents for his family.
Monika was a grade school classmate. Not sure whether they even went to HS together, after she moved overseas for a stint.
I think my favorite part is the first comment.
…and the fact that Tabetha Jones gets a plug, saying she thinks it’s a good idea. This sort of fundraising gimmick seems right up her alley. I can see her pulling a stunt like this for cash.
One of her alts suddenly becomes deathly ill. Never mind that people have been convicted of fraud for pulling such stunts. That possibility has never bothered her before. Why would it now?
Exactly. Tab recently got caught trying to say that her dear, ill mother had compound fractures that had been left unattended for some time. Days, maybe weeks. And not only implicated a care facility for causing the fractures, but actually named her mother’s doctor and nurse. On my blog.
I’m sure that the facility, doctor and nurse would all be happy to know that they’ve been implicated in malpractice on a blog.
If she did pull something like this fundraising scheme, I’m thinking she’d use a family member’s name. Either her beleaguered mom or poor kid that needs something. That woman has no shame using real people in her schemes. None at all.
I just want to give this a signal boost for Kody: https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/41m6/support-kody-adjust-to-life-with-hiv
In this listing/appeal, Nicky says he bought this woman a dress, and included a link. Click on it and it goes to ,a href-“https://www.etsy.com/transaction/239026490”>this Etsy listing.
https://www.etsy.com/transaction/239026490
So… why did he buy Monika a Burkah?
Trying to ease her towards wearing a sleepsack 24/7?
Yes to that.
Maybe he thought it would be good research or publicity to have her replicate Elizabeth Poles’ mysterious 1,000 mile trek through Appalachia this past summer?
“The mysterious woman in black walking across the US”, BBC News Magazine, 31 Jul 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28578570#FBM394534
Nicky doesn’t pay attention to the news. Unless it’s what was on in the 90s.
Sounds kinda like Elizabeth Smart wearing a burkah to cover her face. Makes me wonder what the real fantasy is here.
He probably figures if he can get her on the road, he can get her to Glendale Heights. Then it’s “your sleepsack or mine?”
Assuming he can hitch a ride to Glendale Heights to meet her.
Gee on this day of giving I wonder why nobody is giving to Nicky’s latest scam?
I would just like to point out what may be Nicky’s single greatest sentence ever:
>>I did when I wrote Legend Keeper, “You want monster, I will give you monster. You not like monster when I do it because I grew up in one.”<<
"YOU NOT LIKE MONSTER"
That quote went on the Nitwit Quotes page this morning! He sounds like a toddler.
As I understand it, most folks prefer Red Bull.
He grew up in a monster? Well, alright then….
Carried him around in its little pouch. Grrr!