Hat tip: Lewis
As we know, Nicky lost both his Lulu and CreateSpace accounts. He’s been exploring other options, one of which is Booktango. This showed up on Scribd:
That is the only page available in preview mode. Why do I get the feeling the remaining 16 pages are indeed blank?
Several things about this stand out to me. For many years, Nicky has refused to produce e-books because he’s terrified of people pirating them. So now, he’s producing e-books. Nobody can accuse him of stealing that cover art, but, damn, is it awful. It’s supposed to be a self-portrait in profile. It looks more like a Conehead banana than anything else. His face isn’t that flat. His nose isn’t that small and pointy. His forehead doesn’t slant so far back that his knit cap sticks out halfway across Lake Michigan. Knit hats have a rolled curve to the bottom when they are turned up, not a sharp edge. And, even allowing for space taken up by a cap with his hoodie pulled over it, he gave himself a sixhead. We’ve seen Nicky’s knit hat; it does not have a big pom-pom on top. Even if it did, he wouldn’t be wearing it inside out.
I know the boy fancies himself as 5’10”, but 2’10” of that must be above the neck, given the proportions in that sketch. Anyone who has seen videos of his bloated potato head and bulbous sausage schnozz knows that his sketch isn’t even remotely close to reality.
As for the story itself, who would spend $2.99 for potenially 16 pages worth of story, of which not a single paragraph is previewable?
I’ll give him 23 cents for the story! The random amount of change sitting on my computer desk at the moment!
Blank indeed, like what’s inside Nicky’s head. That cover art is indeed seriously ugly (and who in their right mind would use that ghastly washed out blue for anything)?
Isn’t there a blog or site dedicated to horrible book covers? This belongs on it.
Yes, there is. It’s called Lousybookcovers, run by a guy named Nathan Shumate. Nathan’s already had more than his fill of blowback from Nicky, including a phone call to his home. Under the circumstances, I wouldn’t submit this to his website.
Couldn’t Nathan take legal action and get Nitwit Nicky put away? If he (Nick of course) were ever foolish enough to call me, he could expect to be speaking to some boys in blue within minutes. That might be something our favorite closet case dreams of, but I doubt that the outcome would be as pleasant as he imagines.
Perhaps if Nathan got the Nickster put away, dude could get the psychological assistance that he (Nickles) so desperately deserves.
Yes, I wouldn’t submit it, if only because Nicky is taking his internet raeg right to Nathan’s door and he and his family don’t deserve to be stalked like that. The first time he called Nathan, Nathan’s daughter actually picked up.
Honestly, a book full of blank pages sounds more appealing than N-Pac’s other offerings. At least you could doodle on it.
Except that, for $3, you can buy an entire ream of Staples branded copier paper. It won’t have a textured surface, but that shouldn’t matter for ordinary doodling.
Nicky’s got a new “book” out on Bookpatch.
http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/polaroids-from-the-imagination/6dd9f086-8251-47e2-8600-72e70c057b9a?isbn=9781508090946#.VjdG1f_F-fA.twitter
The boy’s trying out every new place he can possibly find. The comments on that Bookpatch page are funny.
I love the names attached to the comments 😀
He’s still plenty active on Goodreads.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3292495.Nickolaus_Pacione?from_search=true&search_version=service
My favorite part of the page is that “His work had been recently had found its way into the Edgar Allan Poe Museum because of the anthology he’s edited called Nickolaus Albert Pacione Delivers: A Library of Unknown Horrors which is published in a website he’s got a working relationship with.”
Um. No. His work found its way in there because his unshowered ass carried it in and took a selfie.
He donated that book to the museum via snail mail, then sent them a bill for it, before he finally got around to visiting (his book) in person. He thought he was a guest of honor, and didn’t even pay the $6 day pass admission fee. He forgot to bring a camera and had to have the curator take the photos for him, as well as pick him up at the Amtrak station and chauffeur him around town. Poor Chris.
He either forgot his camera or the batteries died and the curator had to take to photo.
Pacione needs to update his Goodreads Author profile page.
o “His work had been recently had found its way into the Edgar Allan Poe Museum ….”
– He sent “Nickolaus Albert Pacione Delivers: A Library of Unknown Horrors”, was paid a check $16 dated 6 Jul 2011 and visited his book at the Museum 21 Jan 2012. It might have been recent when he wrote that profile but 4 years, “recent”?
o Goodreads link to the Lake Fossil Press page at Lulu.com
– Returns a 404 error at Lulu: page-not-found. Definitely out-of-date. Lulu is very tolerant and patient with amateur press folks; it takes a special person to get banished from Lulu.
The Kindle eBook of “Blank Pages All You See” is listed on Amazon, Publisher: Booktango, author Nickolaus Albert Pacione; no Look Inside! just the cover.
His createspace titles are “Currently unavailable” except where there are used books advertised by booksellers.
If Pacione is to be believed, “Booktango.com got nervous when I called the ecr@createspace.com puppets.” Is he already giving his new PoD service second thoughts?