The chum is in the water
As promised… It’s 2006, and I just posted the first part of Book 4: Christy. It’s the Prologue only, but that’s what most of you will analyze (and over-analyze) anyway.
If you feel the need to make a snarky comment about deadlines, let me give you a piece of advice: don’t. Even if you think you’re offering a “friendly joke,” don’t do it.
Writing is a lot of hard work—ask anyone who’s done it. I spent the holidays working on B4, more for your enjoyment than my own. I took time away from my family, friends, and relaxation. So if you’re tempted to “joke” about my posting schedule, deadline, or anything else, ask yourself how much work you did for me this holiday season. If the answer is 20+ hours, then feel free to give me a hard time. If not…
I really am sorry that a small group of passive-aggressive assholes have ruined my faith in basic human decency. But I get into a snit when some jackass sends me a snide comment, thinking he’s being “funny.” It completely wrecks my creative drive, and makes me want to invent a device to stab people in the face over the internet.
In any event, enough chest-thumping.
You can only read the Prologue on my web site. I won’t post it to SOL or any of the other usual places till later (when? I don’t know). After all, there has to be some reward for subscribing to the Forum or my mailing list.
Thanks for reading my rant. The vast majority of my readers are fantastic people, patient and appreciative. It’s just the 0.1% that drives me bat-shit crazy. (If anyone already has a device to stab people in the face over the internet, please contact me privately. 
Happy New Year,
- Nick
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good job…i appreciate ur hard work … i know how it goes and i wanted to say thank u summer camp is amazing and ur a wonderful author
great job. just enough to wet the appetite. take all the time you need to get the story ready. those dumb asses who complain about your pace should stick it where the sun don’t shine and try to do better. keep up the great work.
Nick,
Excellent, as always!
I think I speak for a great many of us when I say we look forward to when you are able to share more of the story with us, but understand that it takes time to put out a quality product. We would rather read the quality, even if it means we need to wait a while.
just to contribute to the 99.9% — thank you for your efforts. i suppose every creative endeavor requires a lot from artist, but i always feel that writing is the most intense. but maybe i’m just not very good at it, so i respect it all the more. best wishes for you and yours in the new year.
Nick, please remember that there are those of us who cherish books and pay quite a lot for them who appreciate that the only cost incurred in reading your wonderful writings is time.
Your work is very much appreciated!
If you need me, I’ll be in my workshop. That stabbing thing is a GREAT idea…
THANK YOU…Nuff said…
Happy New Year, Nick! May 2007 be a great year for you. Thanks for all your hard work and thanks for sharing it with us!
Nick,
Here’s some more support from the 99.9%. Deadlines only matter in newspapers and senior projects.
You’re doing a better job than the majority of erotic writers out there, you’re free to read, you keep us posted on your progress, and you’re ALWAYS worth waiting for…asshats who don’t know enough to appreciate all of that can go take a long walk off a short pier. And on a more personal note, the release of B4, the book covering Paul’s last years in college, is coinciding perfectly with my own last year in college, so as far as I’m concerned you’re right on time. 
Thanks so much for all your efforts. Happy New Year!
Spitfire
P.S. Nereids was awesome. Enough said.
With my wacky job hours I found the prolog posted just after 12 AM
EST Dec. 31, 2006 just as Nick said early Sunday.
Thanks Nick!
I feel like a kid with a new toy on Christmas morning that can’t wait
to open more gifts, but I will have to wait until more are given by
Nick in the way of more postings.
Jack
Names, names, names. Fun fun fun. Let the debate begin. I am almost ready to copy all of the present day posts and place them all in one item. Then make a list of people you loaned out to other stories and make a nice list. In anycase thanks for the post not that I was expecting you to even make the self impossed deadline. Yeep thats right I didnt think you would even post it, and just let that .1% gripe over free stuff. I am always appreciative of anything free. I learned a saying called TINSTAAFL. Which means there is no such thing as a free lunch and that means whenever they say something is free somebody will have to pay for that free item when it gets down to it. For us and your awesome writing it happened to be over 20hrs of your time and your staff that went over this since christmas. I am not so sure if thats a price I would want to pay for a free story post.
Keep up the good work, just remember that the large amount of appreciation of your work far out ways the small number of idiots who drive us all mad!!!
Many others here have said it already, but everyone should say it. “Thank You” You have a rare gift, and the fact that you share it with us makes you a truly wonderful, amazing, and delightful person. You take yor time. When you have hurried in the past writng, it has shone, and I would rather you took your time, enjoy your writing, and produced the masterpiece you want to share with us, Rather than shoving something out for the assholes. You are a wonderful writer, and we are all lucky that you choose to share your gift with us. Again, “Thank you”.
-Rev
Nick thank you for your time and dedication to your story. I think your story…is the key phrase right now….you do want you want and we will just have to take it. We all wish you happy and merry new years…and may it be a healthy and happy one for all of your fans…
Nick, a fantastic beginning to B4, just enough to whet our appetites. Good job.
Oh, and PS — Go Vols tomorrow. Wow, that’s hard for me to say!!
Hi, Nick –
Wow! Now my mind is reeling with the possibilities for B4. Reading the Prologue (and re-reading the Prologues for the other books) has been a real teaser! Great read …
Nereids is wonderful: just finished reading, it as well. Fills in some details I had been wondering about. You have a great eye for detail.
Thanks for your awesome writing!
Happy New Year,
Tan Barb
Post what ya can, when ya can and to hell with deadlines. If its worth reading, its worth waiting for. Oh, and shooting someone in the face on the internet? I know this wont quite do it, but it may help
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/8a0f/
Nick thank you for your great work, thank you for matching your deadline, thank you for your grat work, thank you for spending your spare time for our enjoyment, oh and thank you for your grat work.
All your stories are pieces of great work but what you created with Summer Camp is just marvelous. Please don’t let get these few assholes and spoilsporters under your skin - thy are not worth the trouble.
May you, your family and your friends have a happy and healhy new year.
on air
Hey man
Been reading your stuff for a while now and just wanted to say excellent work. And I don’t mean just the erotica part but the whole and complete story line. You have a defendant talent for writing and developing a story. I don’t know what you do for a living but you should be writing and being published with the gift you have.
To bad about the azz’s that rag on you but I will say I check your site and blog regularly looking and waiting patently for more. And I must add you have me addicted to your writing.
Cool beans Nickster!
Thanks for the start, you met your self imposed deadline, and unless you work for a publication that pays you to write, your only deadline is the one you set 3 seconds before posting. Some of us miss the stories (me included), but most of us are smart enough to realize that you do this for fun and ultimately must set a scheduld that fits your life. I will be patient. Keep up the good writing.
George
Nick,
Let me add my accolades to those already heaped on your more than deserving shoulders. Outstanding work from an outstanding talent. I would be one of the first in line to purchase any book you decided to write and have published in the mainstream world. Please ignore the small minds that simply cannot grasp the enormity of your talent. Their comments simply amplify their lack of intellect and understanding.
Best in the New Year,
John
What a wonderful way to usher in the new year! Thanks for posting the Prologue, Nick. This one I’m going to actually read in serialized form (I read the first two in their full-book PDF form, and waited for you to release SC3 in that same format before reading it). You’ve definitely got my wheels turning as to who the funeral is for, though I think you dropped at least one good hint in the Prologue.
Thanks again, and happy New Year!
Hey, I love all your stories so far, and its a great thing that you’re willing to write for people without much to show for it. Don’t worry about those other people who don’t have patience. It builds to a greater suspense. You’re an awesome author who knows how to write. I personally wouldn’t mind buying a published copy of your books so that way I could read them anytime I wanted(since I’m a bookworm and not a computer person). Keep up the great work and don’t worry about any deadlines. Just gotta keep it cool man.
Have a great New Year
the “Grizz”
Just tacking on my own thank you. I appreaciate the hard work you do and I would just like to saythank you.
I just wanted to say thank you for the beginning of B4 and for always keeping us posted. Happy 2007 and I look forward to reading more in the future.
-shy
It is a shame that pains who feel we all owe them something but do nothing themselves. I don’t write but i do roleplay, and muggins here is normally the GM running the whole damned thing.
Found this on a Roleplaying motivational poster site, thought you’d appreciate it.
http://llbbl.com/data/RPG-motivational/target244.html
Nick,
Great start to B4, I can’t wait for the rest. Thanks for your hard work
QED
Happy New Year to you Nick and all those you hold in your heart.
sorry no internet face stabbing device but a heartfelt thank you for all the wonderful work you do and for the amazing folks you fill your stories with. It makes the wait as you craft the next chapters well worth it and the time when the next bit does come out all the more enjoyable.
thanks for all you do at no commerical gain but simply for the love of writing and sharing it with us inspite of the stress and hassles and pain the ass people that feel entitled to your work instead of grateful for you sharing it freely as they should.
all the best in the coming year
Thanks Nick, Have read the prologue, will probably wait until it’s all out there before I read the rest, but I have Nerieds & Karma to read first, and a re-read of book 3
So Happy New Year
and tell the 0.1 % to
Smurf
That last bit was supposed to be:
and tell the 0.1% to [Censored]
But I put angle brackets and so only nick can see it
smurf
Happy New Year Nick
and many more to you. Just read the prologue and what a start it is.
Thanks Joe Ps. i joined ruthies and read Neriods when u posted on there and i thought it was great please keep me posted on all ur stories for i look forward to reading them
As always, THANKS for all your efforts.
Right on time and excellent work, as always. Thank you very much for your efforts.
I’ll see about some sorta internet controlled boxing glove or shotgun or something for ya. Might come up with something in my spare hours at work…
Funny thing is I like the series more for it’s human side then anything else. Some of the lines in this prologue could well be descriptions of lives around me, including mine.
Again, a very sincere thank you for your time and efforts.
Wren and Tripp - surprise surprise
and a good one
Lets see what’s going to happen in book 4
Oh - a happy new year to all of you and especialy to you: Nick
Grretings from Germany
Thank you very much for the prologue. I´ll appreciate the rest of the story when it comes. In the meantime I´ll just have fun reading your other work again…
Happy new Year!
What the heck! Post ‘em when ya got ‘em.
(But I can hardly wait!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Call me prejudiced but I can’t shake off the feeling ‘Bill M’ might be someone of these spoilsporters vexing Nick so much - and I have a lot of sympathy for Nick.
on air
P.S.
Es scheinen sich hier eine Menge Deutsche zu tummeln…
Great job as always!!! Just finished Nereids what a great story. It really sets the scene for the Summer Camp books.
Thanks for a great job!!!
Nick, thank you.
Steve.
Nick - I guess you have a pretty nice fan-club over here in Germany - keep on goin.
Auch dir - on air - ein frohes neues und gesundes Jahr 2007.
Eric
Hello Nick,
thank You.
Hi Nick,
Don’t kid us. You’re writing this for you, not for us, because you’ve got something to say and enough of an ego to think that what you’re saying is worth other people’s time.
I wish I could claim this bit of snarky wisdom, but I can’t — it’s what Harlan Ellison said about writers a few years ago, and he’s right.
In short, if the demons hadn’t driven you to the keyboard you’d have been happy to take time off with the family. But they did and it’s our benefit. So keep up the good work and have a happy and productive 2007!
Kyle
PS — what’s become of that photographer character of yours?
I like the Prologue and the Nereids. The Nereids filled in a void area and I suspect having read it will be helpful for the new journey on which you are leading us.
Take you time and do your usual great job.
gary
PS: There are several assholes on one of the archaeology lists I subscribe to. They go directly to the trash and no longer piss me off.
Ignore them. Take your time. It’s always been worth the wait.
Enjoyed Nereids.
Thanks
Peter
Heyy, and there’s a top asshole in JoeMamma. Now I’m wishing we all had them internet guns so we could just shoot him. I think we’re all sorry you had to hear from him at all. Keep up the great work. We’re all loving it
Grizz
@on air,
Nah, Bill M is just an eager reader, like everyone else.
If you want to see a REAL asshole, look no further than “JoeMamma.”
@JoeMama,
Thanks for proving my point. Fuckwit. How’s that for whiny, cunt? (Commas are great, aren’t they?)
- Nick
In this case Nick, I ask Bill M to kindly excuse my false accusation - and I have to admit there is a huge contrast to JoeMama.
Danke Eric, ich wünsche Dir ebendso ein frohes neues und gesundes Jahr 2007.
on air
Great job Nick. I keep looking everyday to see if there’s a new post, and in the mean time I’m reading through most of your other stuff, if I’m not reading one of my other books. Great stuff. Keep up the great work
Grizz
Nick, you have provided me with years of entertainment and joy, I wish you the best of luck in this new year and eagerly await B4.
Nick, as always it is a pleasure to read your stories.
I look forward to reading the book 4 in the coming year
Happy new year!
Nick,
Great work, keep it up! Love all your stories. really looking forward to more Book 4!
JoeMamma
Obviously you think you’re a wit, pity your only half right.
Excellent job as always. Thanks for writing! Your work is very much appreciated.
Dennis
great beginning…yes i decided to finsh this story even if it dredges up some painful memories…looking forward to reading B4
I tend to like to read stories in big blocks. I didn’t discover Summer Camp until almost the end of Book 2. It was a pleasure to read a complete Book 1 and Book 2 straight through. Book 3 I followed chapter by chapter, I felt delicious anticipation, but I liked reading the full story straight through better. I probably will check back in July or August for my fix, if I can restrain myself from just a quick peek earlier.
Now if you would just do another jazz club story…
I’d just like to agree with pretty much everything everyone else has said and add my own two cents. I’m a (frustrated) novelist, and I can’t imagine putting in the time and effort it must take to create a world like the SC universe and publish it for free…to write something as extensive as these books (’cause that’s what they are) must take AT LEAST as much time as your full-time job. I know I’ve been writing pretty seriously, trying to create a novel as interesting as those about SC for almost seven years now and I’ve come nowhere near the word count you have…I just want you to know from one writer to another, how much your work is appreciated. Please ignore the idiots who are acting like children; those of us who actually care are more than willing to wait for quality work, rather than have rushed, less-than-stellar stories. Thanks a million.
I have a poster on my wall. It was from the ’60’s, it looks like a Pfiffer drawing of a man at a typewriter. Underneath it reads:
I am staring at my typewriter
It is staring back at me
It says Olivetti Underwood
I don’t say anything
Thanks for your work.
Take your time.Love your stories.
happy new year
Nick, sorry you have to deal with People like Joe Mama’s boy. Most of us support you and wish you all the best with the new year. Just saw the Nikipedia found the idea hilarious and usefull. thanks for all the little things you do for your readers to make our reading and waiting experience more plesent. that’s one more reason why most of us our happy to wait because not only will we get a better product from a happier writer, but also because there ais always new stuff wheather there is a new story or not. thant you for doing what you do.
Nick,
I Have enjoyed your work, the .1 percent can take a flying leap. The rest of us have no issues in waiting.
Dave
Nick,
I just recently started reading summer camp and your other books and they are unbelievable. so inspiring.
Hey Nick,
I have edited two complete stories for authors at SOL, and both have credited me to be the master of the comma, as neither has a clue.
However, I have been surpassed in your reply to JoMamma. He is indeed a whiny cunt.
Even the best plot, characters, and descriptions become gibberish if proper punctuation is not applied. Your attention to detail shows throughout your stories, and yes, indeed, I can see all the hours in your work.
I know you could sluff it off, and still present a pretty good story. But you wouldn’t be Nick if you did that.
“God is in the details”
Thanks for the stories, and the polishing to make them great.
Winston
Duffiedawg
Nice stories, but why are you so sensitive?
“oh no, someone asked when it’d be done!! fuckwits!!”
Lol.
if you don’t post a chapter soon, clearly you are gay.
An old television commercial comes to mind… It was for Jimmy Dean sausage (perhaps some might remember it’s message): “I’d a whole lot rather explain the price, than apologize for the quality.”
In this context, I’d rather know how much hard work Nick’s putting into this for us, than end up with less than his best. And we all know how great his best is!
Keep it up, Nick! You’re a God!
Oh, wow, some people just don’t get it.
This is Nick’s story. He’s doing the work. He’s letting us read for free. He’s paying for hosting so we can read it on the ‘net.
He can decide when (and if) he’s going to post.
I do have issues with waiting, I’m hyperimpatient, but that’s my problem. I want book four right now, but it doesn’t belong to me.
It belongs to him. It’s his.
That’s it. Period. End of story.
I take it that Joe doesn’t think much of Nick’s stories. This begs the question, why is he posting blog entries on a web site that he clearly has no interest in?
Come let us speculate… feel free to add ..
1. Joe’s mamma still likes to dress joe up in diapers. …
2. Joe’s wife can’t get enough of the swinging world and therefore Joe blames Nick….
3. Joe loves attention, but can only find it by posting flames on blogs, in real life nobody knows Joe exists.
4. Joe at the age of 45 finally grew testicles and thinks it’s pretty cool..
5. Joe is bored and wants to get into an argument.
Ignore. It’s the internet. People act like a dick because they can’t in real life.
6. Joe thinks that society “owes” him.
Nick is doing the work, it belongs to him, and he can publish, or not, whenever he likes.
Joe if we are “kissing his ass” it is because we are intelligent enough to realize that if we act like dicks Nick might just stop writing. You might understand if you could get past the letter M on the Alphabet.
As it is you clearly don’t understand how hard it is to write 5 (counting Neredies) complete books in less than 5 years. Some authors who get paid come out with a book every 5 years at least we don’t have to wait that long you ignorant fuck.
The only things Nick gets out this is pride for completeing it and our praise. So a little politeness only seems to be in order
Sory, I’m sure you said somewhere, but where did you post Chap 4, Christy?