Sex, Thugs and Rock & Roll

Raise Your Glasses…

I don’t know if any of you out there in Citizens-ville know just how hard it is to pare down a year’s worth of blood-and-guts, balls-out stories into this anthology.

It’s torturous.

My first edit-my “dream edit”-came in at over 260,000 words. I’m not kidding. More than double the number of words you’ve got clutched between your hairy palms right now.

SO, in order to avoid a couple of slugs to the back of the skull from the divine Michaela Hamilton over at Kensington, I had to cut some stories that flat-out deserve to be in here.

Listed below are the contributors to our second year of Thuglit. Raise your glasses of hooch high, cats and kittens. They’ve earned my respect, and damn sure deserve yours.

Hana K. Lee-Mark Bowen-Kevin McCarthy-Miles Archer-Ann Androla-Pete Hogenson-Marianne Rogoff-Cristobal Camaras-James Williams-Tim Wohlforth-AT Mango-Dave Zeltserman-Joseph Taverney-Robert Spencer-Karl Koweski-J. D. Smith-David C. Daniel-Alejandro Pena-Max Glaessner-Tony Black-Lloyd Hudson Frye-Keith Gilman-Michael Colangelo-Paul Beckman-Bryon Quertermous-Barry Baldwin-David Rosenstock-Kieran Shea-Ed Lynskey-Geoff Hyatt-Glenn Gray-Ian Nicholas Carleton-Nathan Cain-Hilary Davidson-William Boyle-Brian Haycock-Tim Murr-Kim Cushman-Brian Murphy-Linda Sharps-Anthony Rainone-Katherine Tomlinson

Thank you all. Without you, there is no Thuglit.

Thanks to YOU, Not-So-Gentle Reader, for slinging down your dirty blood money for the book. Next year, buy two, ya chiselin’ mugs…

And to Allison, my Bruising Bride of the Beatdown, my Lady Detroit…Without you, none of it would be worth spit.

Copyright © 2009 by Todd Robinson

Introduction copyright © 2009 by Sarah Weinman

“Double Down” copyright © 2009 by Jason Starr

“Like Riding a Moped” copyright © 2009 by Jordan Harper

“Viddi and the Bucharest Brawler” copyright © 2009 by Jónas Knútsson

“A Flood of Mexican Porn Star Tits” copyright © 2009 by Justin Porter

“Markers” copyright © 2009 by Albert Tucher

“Bullets and Fire” copyright © 2009 by Joe R. Lansdale

“Judy’s Big Score” copyright © 2009 by Patrick J. Lambe

“Killing Billy Blain” copyright © 2009 by D. T. Kelly

“Buddha Behind Bars” copyright © 2009 by Daniel Hatadi

“The Days When You Were Anything Else” copyright © 2009 by Marcus Sakey

“Cramp” copyright © 2009 by Anthony Neil Smith

“Private Craps Shooter at Dawn” copyright © 2009 by Steven M. Messner

“The Trouble with Trolls” copyright © 2009 by Patricia Abbott

“Eulogy for a Player” copyright © 2009 by Richard J. Martin Jr.

“Politoburg” copyright © 2009 by Jedidiah Ayres

“Haermund Hardaxe Was Here” copyright © 2009 by Allan Guthrie

“We All Come from Splattertown” copyright © 2009 by Hugh Lessig

“The Switch” copyright © 2009 by Lyman Feero

“Big Load of Trouble” copyright © 2009 by Greg Bardsley

“Violated” copyright © 2009 by Mike Sheeter

“Black Sun” copyright © 2009 by Gary Carson

“Customer Service” copyright © 2009 by Matthew Baldwin

“High Limit” copyright © 2009 by Scott Wolven