Nicholas Grabowsky

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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! WWW.DOWNWARDEN.COM ----the official site of all things Grabowsky
Create a Myspace LED Scroller"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. _______________________________________________________