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Mike Sheeter attended Ohio State University. He has worked as a magazine editor, advertising copywriter, and screenwriter.

Anthony Neil Smith was born and raised on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, has lived in Michigan, and currently resides in Minnesota. He is the author of the novels Psychosomatic, The Drummer, and Yellow Medicine, and his short stories have appeared all over the place, including Thuglit, obviously. He is also the editor of the Plots with Guns Web-zine. Okay? Is that enough? What more do you need to know?

Jason Starr is the Barry and Anthony Award-winning author of eight crime novels, which are published in ten languages. He also writes screenplays, cowrites a series of books with Ken Bruen for Hard Case Crime, and is at work on a graphic novel to be published by DC Comics. He lives in New York City.

Albert Tucher began writing about Diana Andrews with the new millennium and is now up to fifteen published stories and five unpublished novels. Why is he obsessed with a hooker? Because prostitution is as hard-boiled and as noir as it gets. Self-deception is at the core of the transaction, and it always runs out.

Scott Wolven is the author of Controlled Burn (Scribner). Wolven’s stories have appeared six years in a row in the Best American Mystery Story series (Houghton Mifflin), including 2007, selected by guest editor Carl Hiaasen and series editor Otto Penzler. Wolven also contributed a story to Expletive Deleted (Bleak House) edited by Jennifer Jordan.

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.

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