ORDER DIRECT for Diverse Media editions by clicking HERE. (most are hardcover versions here and the latest reprints also....)
or .. book stores such as AMAZON.COM, or just walk into your favorite book store and demand they carry them if they don't!
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"Very entertaining!!!" --DEE WALLACE STONE (The Howling, The Frighteners, Rob Zombie's Halloween) concerning Diverse Tales
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."Grabowsky has imagination to spare!" ---SACRAMENTO BEE
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MYSPACE EXCLUSIVE: Coming eventually....the new "Tattered" edition of the 1989 Critic's Choice paperback THE RAG MAN, yet another work originally released under the 'Nicholas Randers' name, re-edited and revamped for a summer 2009 reprint!
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>"NICK WRITES MIND-BLOWING SHIT!!!!" --EL DOUCHE (singer/drummer-The Mentors, early '90's, after he personally boasted to Nick that Courtney Love hired him to kill Kurt Cobain....no kidding, and books have been written all about that, though we're not implying Nick believed him)
HORROR AUTHORS! If you have a published work of book-length fiction, send it to Nick and he'll review it on the official website, or submit a short story or poetry and get some free promotional assistance.....he's notorious for that, and for genuinely giving a listen to up-and-coming authors, so send a message and ask!
TOURING SEASON! Upcoming appearances of note: WORLD HORROR CONVENTION---Salt Lake City, March 27-30, 2008; FANGORIA'S WEEKEND OF HORRORS---L.A. Convention Center, April 25-27, 2008, tentative; HORRORFIND WEEKEND---Adelphi, MD, August 15-17, 2008; Dark Delicacies book store, Burbank, CA, TBA. More announcements coming soon!
THIS MONTH'S FEATURED AUTHORS AT DOWNWARDEN.COM: Norm Applegate, Diana Barron, Koji Suzuki, Benjamin L. Perez, Paul M. Strickler, and more!
"Grabowsky's writing is at times touching and emotional, however, his real talent is his ability to infuse his writing with a sense of dread and loathing that I have not experienced since H.P. Lovecraft....." ---Tahoe Daily Tribune
I am a delusionalist; I’ve been delusional since as far back as I can remember, around 1968 when I was just a tike and Captain Kangaroo was in black and white. In kindergarten, I convinced myself that I was a vampire, ran around at recess flapping my jacket around the playground like I was flying. My kindergarten teacher warned my mom that I was always after the girls. I would bite them on the arms. Around the third grade, I started writing stories, belting out church hymns at the top of my lungs on the playground swinging on the swings without an ounce of care, while in the next instant breaking a playmate’s arm for not believing that I was a vampire. Later in life, I was a Penticostal preacher, so to speak, and I tried to be a rock star at several points. I directed choirs, played in piano bars. My sister’s abduction and death ironically rescued me from a cluster of downward druggie years, but immersed me in karaoke hell for awhile. I love gardening. I used to sneak out of my parent’s house regularly when I was twelve to streak naked through parks at one in the morning when the automatic sprinklers turned on and I could run through them. I made it a monthly ritual growing up that I pretended my house was a grocery store and I made my family shop through it. I was a camp counselor, a religious counselor, a phone room sales manager, a college actor, lived in a car, and currently live in a nice home with my fiancé Phyllis and 2-year-old son Charlton John near Sacramento, CA making a living as a horror novelist, something I’ve been doing professionally for a couple of dozen years now with a few ups and downs but a good fan base around the world, something I’ll always be greatful for. I mean, no matter what I’ve done, I’ve always been a writer, through and through, since the day I became literate, and I’ve always had an audience of readers who really dig what I write, as dark and disturbing or fantastical as it’s always been. That’s been my life-long delusion, though it’s always seemed pretty real to me, and I’ll keep writing for others to read until the day I die. NOW LET ME HEAR FROM YOU ALL A HEARTY "AMEN" TO THAT!
HERE'S A GENERAL AUTHOR BIO FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO GET TO THE POINT: Nicholas Grabowsky has been hailed by fans of horror/fantasy throughout the world for bestselling novels under the pen name of Nicholas Randers as well the macabre aliens-among-us epic The Everborn, The Rag Man, Pray Serpent’s Prey, The Wicked Haze, Halloween IV (and its special edition), and Diverse Tales, with a body of work extending to short stories, screenplays, poetry, songs and a wide variety of nonfiction. He was born in Southern California and spent his upbringing in and around the Anaheim and Los Angeles areas, where he studied acting and music. Aside from his writing career, he has been in the limelight as a radical gospel preacher and rock vocalist, teacher, lecturer and activist.
Currently, Mr. Grabowsky is a resident of the Sacramento, California area, where he is at work on new and exciting novels and projects including RED AFTERWORLD, a two-part graphic novel for AMERICAN CARNEVIL, The Sirens of Knowland, The Downwardens, an Everborn sequel and comic books, and has developed the small publishing firm of Diverse Media.
Anyone who writes and is interested in the kind of stuff I write, and pretty much anyone like-minded.....musicians, publishers, film makers, particularly those of a dark nature, but everyone's welcome! I'm also a strong advocate and mentor to many talented writers, publishers and editors associated with independent presses and publications. All I read lately is predominantly from small press, and most of the best genre talent out there are the ones still struggling to make it!
HERE'S THE NEW TRAILER I JUST PUT TOGETHER FOR "CUTTING EDGES," HOPING TO GATHER FINANCING TO FINISH THIS LOW BUDGET INDEPENDENT HORROR/FANTASY FILM/PET PROJECT OF MINE (feel free to comment!):
Indulge yourself with “Hand-Dipped Pleasure” by Leannan Mac Llyr.
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“This story starts out hot and gets hotter and hotter… it has a great friendship that could develop into something much more and the strawberries just might make you want to try a few of your own” Fallen Angel Review
Today at 3pm CST, 4pm EST, 1pm Pacific! ACTOR Jesse Kozel will be face to face with the Mortal Vampire himself. Jesse Kozel - Starring as the Clone of Jesus Christ in the Upcoming Horror film "For Christ's Sake" as well as the upcoming "Into the Basement" as Detective Scott Langley. He has also been a a part of the films "Never Back Down", "Ocean's Eleven", "Big Trouble" and the soon to be released "Ace Ventura, Jr" & "Bait Shop".
I'd like to be the sort of friend. That you have been to me. I'd like to also be the help. You've been always glad to be. I'd like to mean as much to you. Each minute of the day. As you have meant, dear friend of mine. You’ve been to me along the way. I'd like to do the big things. The splendid things for you. To brush the gray out from your skies. And leave them ever blue. I'd like to say the kindly things. That I so often heard. And feel that I rouse your soul. The way that mine you've stirred. I'd like to give you back the joy. That you have given me. Yet that were wishing you a need. I hope will never be. I'd like to make you feel. as rich as I, who travel on. Undaunted in the darkest hours. With you to lean upon. I'm wishing at this time. That I could but repay. A portion of the gladness. That you've strewn along my way. And if I had to make one wish this year. My only true wish would be. To be the sort of special friend. That you have been to me.
I am a delusionalist; I’ve been delusional since as far back as I can remember, around 1968 when I was just a tike and Captain Kangaroo was in black and white. In kindergarten, I convinced myself that I was a vampire, ran around at recess flapping my jacket around the playground like I was flying. My kindergarten teacher warned my mom that I was always after the girls. I would bite them on the arms. Around the third grade, I started writing stories, belting out church hymns at the top of my lungs on the playground swinging on the swings without an ounce of care, while in the next instant breaking a playmate’s arm for not believing that I was a vampire. Later in life, I was a Penticostal preacher, so to speak, and I tried to be a rock star at several points. I directed choirs, played in piano bars. My sister’s abduction and death ironically rescued me from a cluster of downward druggie years, but immersed me in karaoke hell for awhile. I love gardening. I used to sneak out of my parent’s house regularly when I was twelve to streak naked through parks at one in the morning when the automatic sprinklers turned on and I could run through them. I made it a monthly ritual growing up that I pretended my house was a grocery store and I made my family shop through it. I was a camp counselor, a religious counselor, a phone room sales manager, a college actor, lived in a car, and currently live in a nice home with my fiancé Phyllis and 2-year-old son Charlton John near Sacramento, CA making a living as a horror novelist, something I’ve been doing professionally for a couple of dozen years now with a few ups and downs but a good fan base around the world, something I’ll always be greatful for. I mean, no matter what I’ve done, I’ve always been a writer, through and through, since the day I became literate, and I’ve always had an audience of readers who really dig what I write, as dark and disturbing or fantastical as it’s always been. That’s been my life-long delusion, though it’s always seemed pretty real to me, and I’ll keep writing for others to read until the day I die. NOW LET ME HEAR FROM YOU ALL A HEARTY "AMEN" TO THAT!
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