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Thuglit Anthology released!

June 7th, 2009 · No Comments

Hey hey. I know it’s been a while. I can’t tell you how many times a day I think “hey, I need to update my blog” and then never get around to it. Between family, school and writing (!) (oh, and the occasional Plants vs. Zombies sessions) the hours are spoken for.

But, I finally found some time this nice Sunday morning to announce that the Thuglit Anthology Sex, Thugs and Rock & Roll is now available for your purchasing pleasure. You can find it here, as well as many other places.

Inside said anthology you will find a short piece by me, Killing Billy Blain. YOu know, at first I was torn at the idea of having this piece in the anthology (I know, what am I mental? Well, yes.) I think it’s a good example of where I was as a writer in 2004 (when it was written), but not wholly accurate as to what I can do now. The style is very similar to today, of course, but I read KBB now and there are so many things I would’ve changed about the story, from major things to tiny grammatical errors.

With that said though, there are some interesting (to me, anyway) coincidences regarding KBB and this anthology.

– Also in this anthology is a story by Scott Wolven. Scott Wolven was a creative writing professor I had for two classes during my undergrad at Binghamton University, an intermediate CW course and a detective fiction course. I spent many an hour (much to his dismay, I’m sure) in his office hours talking writing.

– KBB was written after my classes with SW, so he never read it. It was written for a website that he had talked about in his detective fiction course, Plots with Guns. PWG was run by Anthony Neil Smith, who also has a story in this anthology. He rejected KBB.

– KBB made the rounds quite a bit before being picked up by Thuglit. I got more than one, “I was torn on this, but I think we’re going to have to pass” emails. I even got one “I have to think on it, but right now I would venture to say that yes, I will accept KBB. I’ll email you with the final decision this weekend” only to have the next email say that he tried to get it in but just couldn’t, and he was sorry.

– This one is a bit sketchy. In my tattered brain, I recall Sarah Weinman being one of the editors that was close to publishing KBB, but passed. She wrote the introduction for the anthology. (And if I’m misremembering, my apologies. If it means anything, I hold this memory in high regard.)

Okay, I think that’s everything. It’s time to get off the laptop before the kids kill each other. We’ll be in touch soon.