If you are going to be an asshole about my submission calls, do it on your own blog. I want to keep the comments open for those who are actually interested in submitting to the projects. As for the pen name I am making some progress as the project — I am writing out the main characters Christian testimony and that is going to be a huge part of the novella. Then it will have character narratives and the narrator interjecting. It is going to be a good sized novella. I am not at the liberty to give the title out of this at this time because I don’t want that asshole AngryInIllinois creating a fake cover and putting a fake name on the byline. I am doing the guidelines for the next few anthologies and privately giving them out to people via e-mail and social network messages. I have the e-mail address set up for the submissions for this anthology and I am very strict in what I am seeking for the guidelines here.
I am addressing Colbert, Zombie Diva, Mike Brendan and the other assholes who snub on editor’s choice paying markets. That is how Kevin Lucia got his start. I am adopting the editor’s choice payment for the three anthologies I am putting out with my website, Lake Fossil Press and Broken Mindframe Books.
Those of you badmouthing my submission calls
09 Friday Aug 2013
Posted in Struggles of a Christian Author, Words From Nick
An Author's Blog 
Such markets used to be called fanzines. This is what August Derleth wrote to me in May 1962:
“Seriously now, if you have any serious intentions of becoming a writer, it is high time you stopped playing around with fanzines. Fanzine contributions are made up chiefly of two classes—authors not good enough to get into professional print, and authors of some reputations who have been suckered into contributing gratis. Very few fanzine authors have ever subsequently appeared between hard covers. I can’t tell you not to appear in fanzines, but to tell the truth, I will give a long hard look at your book MS. if its contents have been made available to the fans free of charge. The book editor’s point of view is simply this: why shd. I pay for the privilege of publishing this if the author can give it away to a fanzine? That is bound to be my own attitude also. You are a free agent in the matter, but if I were you, I would certainly not give my work away to the fanzines. . . . “
I contributed to a Goth Mag in 2006 that was staple bound and xeroxed, then the magazine I got published with in 2006 was helmed by the same editor. I look at publication at not being a privilege Ramsey, this will shock you I look at being published as a right. The subcultural magazine was based in LEEDS, England. The editor knew of me from my website so I sent him the story that is in my first namesake.
What has any of that that got to do with anything Ramsey said?
Being published is not a right. Nobody has a right to be published. Talent comes first.
It is a right, I was talented enough to appear along side you on HorrorMasters.com Willie. In case you forgot about that, you were also featured on that website about the same time I joined.
Hey you got a follower here and fuck them!!!! You fucking rock on!!
Is that above supposed to be a fan???
Maybe you just have a stick up your ass cause you couldnt follow talent with a fucking bag over your head. Why you got to hate on evetyone? Because we dont follow the norm? Cause we dont play follow the cussy leader? Fuck you. I play by my rules its my game just as its Nicks rules and his game. Maybe its time you learn to play by our rules.
Maybe you and Nick should get together and form a joint venture — Screw You Press,or something like that. ‘Cause that’s what you both do to your authors.
Tan, she owns her own publishing company. So kindly piss off and go find yourself a goat to molest. Because you the only sex you are going to get is from barn animals.
She admitted that Preditors & Editors doesn’t think too highly of her “publishing company,” not that she gives a rat’s ass. Considering all her references to bestiality, it’s possible that she keeps those for herself.
I am not fraudulent/ I go the extra mile to get writers promoted slipping the books in the hands of local celebrities and friends who are in the entertainment industry.
I am gaining new fans by the day Colbert. I am not saying where they are coming from but they are coming out of the woodwork. So fuck off you libelous little fag.
Coming out of the woodwork like cockroaches. Should make you feel at home. They can keep the maggots in your kitchen company.
I am not a scam artist, my author’s get paid, I am not a fraud nor have I ever been. I have it all in black and white. can you say the same about your publisher? Can you say the same about yourself? What you will learn that is walking into the lion’s den isn’t always the best thing to do, but hey I’ll let you learn the hard way. I find it funny when anyone other than your little cussy clique comes to someone’s aid or defends their publisher or fellow author you get all out of shape. Maybe if you took a good hard look in the mirror and the people you surround yourself with you would see things our way. I put money out on my authors, I make sure they are ALL well taken care of? Just because your publisher has to rip off titles, steal authors, steal copyrighted work from other legit publishing companies shows what kind of person ‘they’ are. So back off and keep your mouth shut. I am sick of your mouth running and sick of your shit.
Whoa. Who pissed in your cornflakes? I know — it’s all part of your “charm.”
Piss off shit raper.
I think it’s sweet, Nicky’s made a friend who’s also not recommended by Preditors and Editors and they seem to have more in common than just poor business practices.
It’s a match made in…well somewhere.
Preditors and Editors badmouth people who refuse to bend over for them and allow them to fuck the person in the ass for their support. Preditors And Editors had an anthology for their legal fund that looked like shit with the interior. It looked like the editor used a single word processor knowing nothing about formatting and jacked off on the book for the cover art.
“So back off and keep your mouth shut.”
No. Not that you’re gonna do anything but mouth off, regardless.
Oh babe if I was a whore you couldn’t afford me. I may be many things, a whore is not one. A scam artist is not second. And just because you find it amusing to piss all over someone else and their hard work, shall I bow to your feet? Fuck you and and the horse you fucked on your way in. I find it hilarious that you must bully and poor piss poor bullshit with ‘real’ publishers and ‘real’ authors. I picked up a few of everyone’s work and Nick here that is talent, your bullshit, well, bullshit. Just because I am a woman I am supposed to be proper and keep my mouth shut. Not anymore. And we both have followers, supporters, and fans. Not paid off flunkies that follow us around and lick our ass. I am assuming that is what you do since all you do on a daily basis is rattle off at the mouth about people that don’t concern you. But hey that’s fine, cause my name must taste good on your mutha fuckin tongue bitches cause thats all you talk about. If it aint me its Nick. Maybe you should sit down write a fuckin book like you say you do other than sit on your fucking ass and talk about shit you know nothing about. Now if you excuse some of us have ‘real’ work to do other than stand by and wait for the next instruction from follow the cussy leader.
If you were a whore, I’d need a tetanus shot.
Scott it must piss you off that one of my supporters are coming out of the woodwork to put you in your place. All you do is give other publishers rim jobs to get your work published.
Colbert the only supporters you have are the faggot. I don’t write for the faggot nor do I want the faggot as the reader. I don’t write for the politically correct and profess gay marriage as a blasphemy of what the sacred union of marriage is. So you want to bash on me because I speak out against homosexuality, you are going to be fighting a battle you will never win. You are an abomination.
Oh it pisses them all off. They are probably running to mommy dearest screaming oh what do I do? As for that shot, my aim is well, and yes for another shot, I would say pour another. But if you want insults, that skank whore thang ran its course. I might be tattooed and cuss like a sailor but i speak my mind just like my daddy taught me. So please if you are going to insult a biker’s daughter learn to do it right sorry excuse for a man. Do you kiss your mother with that mouth or lick her pussy. Oh wait its both. Cause its the only pussy you can get. And of course you will run back to squad leader and tell ‘them’ everything just like a good little boy. Run your mouth, keep running it. Because if all you can do is think about me or Nick here then we have done our job. You stay so busy bad mouthing everyone else and ranting about how good you are when you tossed the first fucking stone. So don’t come to my playground mutha fucker and try to make the rules. I play by my rules, and if you don’t like the way I talk fuck off. You don’t like the tattoos fuck you they arent for you, you dont like the fact that I am an outspoken woman that can run you under a bus with insults and watch you piss your pants like a pussy, then don’t open pandoras box because the days of me playing nice are over. You want to bash me, bash Nick, bash every other good fellow publisher and author around because they don’t follow what you think is tasteful. Fuck tasteful fuck proper. You you raving mad people started all this shit. i have seen Nick’s name plastered on everyones shit then you switched you attacked me. Guess what? I bite back.
If that was a bite, you have no teeth.
Do you suck your mother’s cock with that mouth?
I am a libelous rape-baby.
No that was just me being nice. I have bite but honestly you a measly little parasitic why would I? Besides I’d be afraid I’d get those nasty cussy germs all over me, then oh hear what would I do? LOL do you people really think you scare me worry me or even intimidate me? Please, you are talking to the wrong one here buddy. You are nothing to me. It just makes your skin crawl that someone has come to anothers aid that you and ‘clique’ have smeared all over social media. I will reach out to every single one and fight for them. Time someone takes a fucking stand.
Good for you. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have real publishers and writers to talk to, not liars, thieves, homophobes, racists and misogynists. You should actually know who you’re defending before shooting off your mouth. all of us have dealt with him for 5-10 years or more. Do your research cookie.
Colbert shut the hell up. I don’t hate women, I just make blue humored jokes at one author and dirty jokes at the expense of my first fuck since you are making fast friends with the bitch. I am not a thief you little fuck, so kindly shut the hell up and let me get my submissions for anthologies I am planning. What you are doing to my publishing imprint is extremely inconsiderate.
I am not a liar or a fraud. I just don’t publish the faggot nor will I read works from the faggot. I strongly make this suggestion, please refrain from trying to stop people from submitting to my anthologies. It is not professional.
You have no business telling anyone about being professional. You’re the last professional turd blossom – next to Tabetha – I’ve ever seen.
The lady does sound like a tramp…
“I don’t hate women”
Oh yes you do…
I actually have respect for women you little rape-baby. It is just a few women are assholes as much as men are.
BTW Nick is right if you believe Preditors and Editors is bullshit. I know several good name publishers on that list and its people like you that go around making up lies to get us flagged. And bat shit crazy oh you better believe it. All Texas tattooed temperamental bitch and my brain to mouth filter is officially on strike.
They badmouthed a would be publisher of mine, Lame Goat Press. The publisher wanted my story because of the evangelical element — he asked me, “How did someone like you who is a Christian become such a rebel or vice versa?” I am a bit of a maverick in this business, and saw a contributor turn on me without asking me about my side of the story.
I can speak however and whenever I like. I am a grown ass woman and if don’t like it or like the fact that someone else has found out that all you bashing and trashing is only to make yourselves look better then poor poor pissy you. As for talent I have tricks you haven’t even seen yet. I guess all really believe all the bullshit that overflows from ones mouth. But thats okay we will just put you in the corner with the rest of the dicks that dont know how to have any fun and try to piss on everyones parade.
“Grown ass woman.”
Only one of these words accurately decribes you….
That is one uneducated and deluded chunk of meat, not a grown woman!
No… Nick is wrong… Facts and reality are evidence to that.
Preditors and Editors did do that nice expose on what a fraud Publish America is.
As far as playing by “your rules.” Well, if either of you had talent, skill with language or even the ability to converse using reason, I might actually listen. As you’re zero for three and unprofessional as hell, I hereby declare your rules ineffective and invalid.
I have the skill Mike. You snub the places where I got published with and sold to. So kindly take your snide remarks off my blog before I make you look like a total rape-baby on this blog. If you don’t like my submission call don’t submit, don’t be an asshole and sabotage someone’s anthology because you think they are unprofessional and vile in your eyes. I am vile to the ones who treat me like a second class citizen.
I have the fucking skill you holier-than-thou rape-baby prick. I have the education to back it up too. So kindly shut the fuck up and let me get a goddamn readership with my work without a cum gargling prick like you snubbing on every piece of work I’ve done. You’ve snubbed on my work since 2006 and if you said the shit you said to my face I would punch you right in the fucking head and continue to pummel you like the whiny little faggot you are.
What’s with the need to constantly run your mouth at people when you’re meant to be putting your subs together? On here, on Facebook, on Twitter, on the various blogs under your name & other names…it’s all I’ve seen. Since 2007 you’ve been busy blaming others for your own short-comings rather than improving your vocabulary skills. Oh, YouTube isn’t a place for dissing others constantly, keep a video diary to let steam off yes, but keep them to yourself.
Lets see if you can answer me without one swear word, no cruel jibes at others. I’m curious to see if that’s possible.
So, what seems to be the problem?
Emma, I saw your shit on facekbook, kindly keep your militant Liberal bullshit off my blog. Shut up and let me get my fucking submissions you goddamned feminazi.
To be honest, Emma, I’d rather Mr Pacione called me Mr Campbell.
Ram, I am very informal here.
Mr Pacione, I am not.
Ram — I hate the goddamned formalities here. If you are going to comment on the blog and be a damn critic, call me Nick.
Mr. Campbell is the only horror writer I’ve seen you communicate with that you haven’t managed to completely alienate with your potty mouth. Maybe, if you want him to keep talking to you, you should respect his wishes and call him Mr. Campbell.
I like to keep things informal with this blog.
Anyone confused by this exchange should be informed that Mr Pacione deleted Emma’s posting to which I replied. Perhaps he will tell us why.
Tabby is Tabetha Jones the owner of Phoenix Fire Publishing which is “not recommended” by Preditors and Editors and was also the recipient of an author alert on Writer Beware’s Facebook page six months ago regarding “complaints about broken promises, unpaid royalties, and claims on publishing rights even though the authors are in possession of documents returning those rights”, sadly she is very real.
If you’re curious enough you can sample her prose by looking up the Draven Witch series on Amazon and looking inside the books, Zoey Sweete is her nom de plume,
You couldn’t pummel cookie dough.
>It is a right, I was talented enough to appear along side you on HorrorMasters.com Willie
It’s NOT a right. Never. It’s a privilege. And if you look at my bibliography, I don’t count Horrormasters as a credit anymore. It didn’t have any standards and let any old shite in.
http://www.williammeikle.com/bibliography.html
Besides that was back in the ’90s. I’ve moved on since then, I’ve hit over forty pro story sales, had numerous novels and story collections published by highly regard presses and for the past six years have been making a living writing full time.
How about you? Talented enough for that?
I consider HorrorMasters.com a credit because that was my second, third, fourth and fifth sales. I sold to Tales of the Talisman twice in 2005 and 2006. I got published on Specficworld.com in 2008 (that site had been around longer than me. I’ve been around since 1997 and been a staple of exposure e-zines since 2000. I appeared on Clive Barker’s website when I turned 24 after the fat fuck I dumped a load of cum into was forcing his work and Poppy Z. Brite’s work down my throat. I can hold my own in the business I got published in a UK magazine in 2006 that was a Goth mag it wasn’t just horror so I was the only horror story in the issue so I got more focus and readers from that story alone in that magazine. I chose to work behind the scenes as a small press publisher because I wanted to get a feel of how the other side worked. I got a lot of shit for this but I don’t give a flying fuck. The Owner of HorrorMasters.com liked what I was doing as an editor so he joined Tabloid Purposes II, Quakes And Storms: A Natural Disaster Anthology and Tabloid Purposes 3. I designed my first namesake anthology to give my story that was published in the UK a home in the United States since the magazine slated to run the story folded.
For the record Nick, being published is not a right. Read you the Constitution…
Oh, and for the record Nick, being published is not a right. Read you the Constitution…
I haven’t written anything that was PG-13 since writing The Typewriter. And don’t call me Nicky here you little animal raper.
Mr Pacione,
You say about being published on Clive Barker’s site, and as I understand it, you are very much against homosexuality (correct me if I am wrong)…I wonder if you are aware that Mr. Barker is an out and proud gay man and how that sits with you? Also, I must ask, what bearing does a writers sexuality have on a damn fine story? Surely, we as writers can respect our fellow dreamers for their words and not their private lives? Just a thought there Mr. Pacione, it is not a slate, nor slam, just a thought.
I sent you my response in a private e-mail explaining the back story. I am what would be if Clive Barker was a straight man and a bachelor. I am a darker horse than Barker, can write stories sicker than his sickest work without batting an eye. If you pick up my novel GAME OVER, you will see this very extreme display of macabre content for itself. I like to do an assault on the senses when I do the gore soaked shit. I don’t write gore for gore’s sake.
“I am what would be if Clive Barker was a straight man and a bachelor.”
Twaddle.
That was the running joke I had in Gothic chatrooms for years Ram. Please keep it informal. Call me Nick.
You don’t have a sense of humor. Everyone knows that.
I just have a sense of humor that really pisses people off because the jokes I make are really disgusting.
Has Mr. Campbell invited you to address him as “Ram”? I think not. I recall a statement that he preferred to keep it formal. Why do you refuse to respect that?
As for the Clive Barker thing, nope. Not even close.
That happened 13 years ago Christine. One website that did a wiki page about me actually knew about this and wrote out my complete and well researched history about me (not the shit that all of you say about me but my history with Writings From The Grave, inheriting Shadow of Darkness and Inheriting the Goth LiveJournal which I ran for six years.
No, Nicky, you’re just disgusting and lacking in a sense of humor.
I have an offensive sense of humor. You don’t just see it because you are a product of incest.
No, one cannot see it, because it doesn’t exist. Just like your intelligence and ability to write.
Mr Pacione, if you want to call me what you choose to call me despite the preference I’ve expressed, then I shall take the same liberty with you. Is that what you would like?
Blocked his facebook so his Reddit.com is his public profile. Accusing me of plagiarizing David Foster Wallace. That just doesn’t fly with me.
Mr Pacione, if you want to call me what you choose to call me despite the preference I’ve expressed, then I shall take the same liberty with you. Is that what you choose?
Keep it informal with me. I never been formal with people on the business. Please, call me Nick. April addresses me as Nick when we spoke on the phone and e-mail when she was alive. All my contributors when they submit to me, they don’t say “Dear Editor, please consider my manuscript,” it’s when they write me for a submission it’s “Yo Nick!” Or “Hey GothicPreacher” when they submit. When Accept their manuscript it is saying a few words, “Consider yourself in”
Agreed, You should be addressing Mr. Campbell as ‘Mr. Campbell’ until he suggests otherwise or a certain familiarity sets in (which I doubt ever will, frankly). I admit when I spoke to Mr. Campbell on FB about the lovely and generous introduction he gave me for The Devil’s Companion, I slipped up at least one time and called him Ramsey by mistake. I then righted it by returning to ‘Mr. Campbell’. It’s important IMHO to always use proper etiquette.
I am informal here, So when I talk to Campbell here, I address him as Ram. As for you, I address you as an amoral cuckhold who tramples on the cross to kiss the devil’s ass.
Melany and you stealing my beloved science fiction titles is fucking inconsiderate and rude.
Very well, Nick, let us be informal.
Reason for edit: The fucking jurassic blowhard keeps calling owner of out of name.