Hollywood scribe Nikki Finke launches new website

It’s like she never left.

Nikki Finke got Hollywood talking on Monday as she took the wraps off her next project — HollywoodDementia.com.

After nine months of virtual silence since shutting her NikkiFinke.com site, the movie-town muckraker announced a new site that will produce Hollywood-focused works of fiction, including novel excerpts, novellas and short stories.

They will be written by Finke and insiders whom she invites to participate — after a credentials presentation.

The plan is to charge readers $1 for each fiction piece posted via a TinyPass paywall, with writers getting their cut of the proceeds once a month.

The $1 price is believed to be just an estimate.

Still to be worked out are copyright and other legal issues. The best guess is that HollywoodDementia will let the copyright lapse to a piece’s author after a year of exclusivity.

The groundbreaking blogger started her self-named site in June 2014, after leaving Deadline.com — a name she took from the pages of LA Weekly and transformed into a digital must-read — in November 2013.

HollywoodDementia solves the mystery of Finke’s professional ambition after her falling out with Jay Penske, who bought Deadline for an undisclosed amount in 2009.

The two have since worked out their differences, with a settlement last August that delivered more millions to Finke but keeps her from competing in Hollywood journalism.

Speculation during the interim had Finke, who once covered politics for Newsweek, taking her reporting skills to Washington, DC — a move that almost came to pass through an offer from Politico for Finke to pen a muckraking column à la Jack Anderson.

As it is now, Finke can direct her 265,000 Twitter followers to help build a new platform that, only 10 weeks after conception, has attracted the interest of publishers, TV producers and prospective ad partners.