Date of Birth, 03 Aug 1976
birth place: Elk Grove, Illinois

Normally I don't write fanficiton, sometimes I will write something every now and then just so I don't get a writers block. I write mainly original horror fiction and sometimes; Science Fiction and Creative Nonfiction. I write for various websites online and a few places my work appear at are and list goes on of where I write at. One can find my short stories at on the journal I have at diary-x, and one thing I cannot stand is slash fiction of any kind. The story titled The Fandom Writer is a swipe at slash writers in general.

More of my work can be found on the journal at diary-x. If you want to see story, Lake Fossil, send me an email and I will send that link your way. I write on FictionPress and AuthorsDen. Science Fiction was something I always read, but always thought it was a bitch to write though. I have written a lot online and it shows from my years as running a few forums over the years. If you want to see what I am thinking on a day to day basis check out my blog at myspace. For the ladies out there who are attracted to the opposite sex and only the opposite sex, I am very single (yes I am a rare thing in the gothic subculture; a straight male.)

I got published in various genres from horror and non-fiction to most recently Science Fiction. I write cyberpunk and creature style science fiction, sometimes at the same time in one story I will include elements of both. Science Fiction as what I write is something I thrive on what can happen and the possiblities. Not so much the Star Wars space opera kind -- I like the technology that you know is going to be a reality ten years from now or even 20 years from now. The weird literary fiction I also write will sometimes get placed but I have written more hard horror since getting picked up with Darkened Horizons: Issue 3. The story people can read in there exclusively is titled Damnation Observes.

Influences: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, Rod Serling, Richard Matheson, Terry Lloyd Vinson, Algernon Blackwood
years writing: 17 years in October.
Genre writing in: Gothic Horror, Suspense, Science Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
reading patterns: Horror, Suspense, Science Fiction
currently reading:
Half Past The Witching Hour by Terry Lloyd Vinson
I AM LEGEND by Richard Matheson (the short stories in the book)
QUAKES AND STORMS: A NATURAL DISASTER ANTHOLOGY books.lulu.com/quakesandstorms
The Everborn by Nicholas J. Grabowsky (as soon as I am done with Armstead's book.)
Books released: House of Spiders 3, The Writings Collected, More Frightening Than Fiction, Tabloid Purposes 3

House of Spiders 3: The Account of Of Todd Hollins written with Barbara Marjanovic is available now on Naked Snake Press. I do have a published on Tales of the Talisman Vol. 2, Issue 4, titled The Typewriter.

books.lulu.com/WildCatBooks, New Writers Of The Purple Page, Edited By Ronald Hanna. The new story to look for on there is one titled Life Inheritance. I was trying my hand at writing Literary Fiction, but the approach has a gothic horror touch thrown in for good measure.

If you want a copy of Collectives In A Forsaken Landscape, they are available on There will be a version of it coming out on Booksurge with a story titled "The Cabbie Homicide." If you are looking for Ghosts of War go to fictionpress.com. Reality Check is available on ebooksondisk.com. The spiders from House of Spiders make a guest appearance on a Van Helsing fanfic story titled Van Helsing 2: Shards of Avalon. Enchanted isn't the word I am looking for; viseral would be the better word. Bite of the Spider and its sequel House of Spiders are both four years old. I wrote my first science fiction story baout this time.

Also available on Lake Fossil Press will be a brand new collection of short stories and novellas titled The Writings Collected. You can grab up a copy of that book by going to books.lulu.com/lakefossilpress. I will be still hosting the Lake Fossil Fan Fiction competition, and contest is ongoing -- fiction for this contest must be within the Lake Fossil Canon meaning no slash and you must have read the three sequels since the two sequels are available in print, pick them up from the site in the magazine or the collection. The stories will be published an anthology hosted on Lake Fossil Press.

Available for purchase right now on lulu.com is The Ethereal Gazette: Issue Five, and the ink just dried on the contract so to speak for my story BLOOD CONTENDER and it is published in Diabolic Tales II. It comes out in October. This is a cutting edge horror anthology, and the story is inspired by Robert E. Howard with the level of brutality. Think if he wrote a vampire story in the modern times and this spans a period of years. Issue Six been out a while now too so if you want to grab that one you can get it on lulu.com.

Tabloid Purposes IV is out now and if you want that one go ahead and grab that one up on lulu.com. Issue Six is available but reworking the back cover as soon as I get the tools to do so. Tabloid Purposes 5 is taking submissions -- looking for authors who have a cyberpunk science fiction background who can combine supernatural horror in it. Inquire to my e-mail address npacione@gmail.com for more details and go over to ralan.com for the complete guidelines. I do have issue six of the magazine available and I am always looking for fiction for the mag and this issue I am looking for local authors for it -- authors must be at least 18 years old or turning eighteen to be considered because it has violent content. No sexual content of any kind will be considered. Stories being neo-noir, Horror, Science Fiction, and non-fiction will be considered.

If you see something here that means it was written from a public domain or a character created by friends of mine based on their notes. I am working on Tabloid Purposes: Book Five and trying to edit Issue Seven of my magazine too. I am pleased that I am working on new short stories right now too and a tone of them are very controversial in nature. I just finished a short story titled I.O.W.A. and Cyber:Terror:Machine which are both novella length works. I've been also toying around with journalism again too, and my journalistic efforts are published on Associated Content. My new articles are found there.