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A lot of writers treat that freedom like a kid who just learned how to swear. Just write a great goddamn story. How do new voices keep breaking through? Submissions are all I read nowadays. These are clearly writers who are stuck in a time-warp, never having read a book published after and have never seen Terriers or The Wire. We all dig what we dig.
Now, can that archetype be made fresh? And that pisses me off. I once got roundly criticized by a writer for not publishing enough stories by women. I pointed out that about fifteen percent of the stories we publish are by women writers while women account for only five percent of submissions.
Want to guess what the answer was? If the story is good enough, we run it. Their take on a crime story is purely organic, and coming solely from their own writerly imaginings and not locked into genre archetypes. There ARE no genre rules. But being a crime fiction magazine, your story should have a crime in it.
Is there any consideration, thematic or otherwise, that goes into each issue beyond the best eight stories you got that month? Have you ever had to send someone over to explain them?
It just has to be a good story. Who the hell knows? Must make you proud. The list is too long to gush about any more. But yeah, I have immense pride when any writer who has passed through our doors makes their way onto a bookshelf. Your role as an editor combined with your experience writing both short stories and novels gives you a particular perspective on what works in short vs.
What advice would you have for a self-described novelist who wants to try their hand at short crime fiction?
Chuck it in the Fuck-It Bucket. Write whatever you want. Can you tell it? I just got sick of nobody publishing the kind of fiction I liked to write. We are fucked in the head, publishing-wise, in this country. It takes work to build a new machine. Oct 24, Shannon Barber rated it really liked it. I really enjoyed this issue.
Jordan Harper (Author), The worlds greatest multi-award winning crime fiction magazine is BACK after a two-year hiatus with eight hardcore short stories to rock your literary world. Browse our editors' picks for the best books of the year in fiction, nonfiction, mysteries. THUGLIT issue 1 (Volume 1) [Hilary Davidson, Mike Wilkerson, Jordan Harper, Johnny Shaw, Matthew C. Funk, Court Merrigan, Terrence P. McCauley, Jason.
There is a nice diversity to the pieces chosen and I liked how they were arranged. Absolutely a must read. Apr 11, Scott Cumming rated it really liked it. There is a plethora of the latter day editions of Thuglit available on Kindle Unlimited and I thought it'd be worth my while to dig into them seeing as I'm enjoying the current run of lit-zines that are available.
This was as enjoyable as I expected it would be and it kicks off with Jordan Harper's "Lucy in the Pit". I've already read it, but just wanted to mention it as everybody should be reading Harper's work. Jason Duke's "Bastards of Apathy" is a bloody play on the apathy on display on a dail There is a plethora of the latter day editions of Thuglit available on Kindle Unlimited and I thought it'd be worth my while to dig into them seeing as I'm enjoying the current run of lit-zines that are available.
Jason Duke's "Bastards of Apathy" is a bloody play on the apathy on display on a daily basis in the 21st Century that we're all guilty of. McCauley was a favourite as we visit a s mobster's right hand man, Terry Quinn, as he looks to find out who's skimming the take from the dive of the title. Funk, who has a stack of great flash fiction over at Shotgun Honey, contributes a tale of a family reunion. I'll be sure to continue catching up on these and positive I'll find more familiar names as I go.
A great start to a legendary zine.
Mar 29, William rated it it was amazing. It's my kind of literature -- tough and unyielding. Unsentimental, too, unless you consider "Lucy in the Pit," which made me almost sympathetic with fighting dog trainers. Some of them, anyway. Higgins meets Charlie Bukowsky. How can you not like a story in which the main characters are a couple of no-hopers named Scrote and Violence?
They are a little Great stuff! They are a little like Jay and Silent Bob with a really wicked mean streak. The excerpt included in the maiden issue of "Thuglit" was just too good and too short to satisfy me. I'm a big fan of crime literature with crooks who talk and think like crooks. Dec 25, Marley rated it really liked it.
I found Thuglit by accident and intend to go though the entire series. I don't particularly care for short stories, but dug these.
Some are very good, some not so, but this is some serious hardcore stuff. Particularly compelling is Lucy in the Pit by Jordan Harper don't let dog fighting put you off! If you want to know now to screw over your man's family to keep him all to yourself then read Magpie by Hilary Da I found Thuglit by accident and intend to go though the entire series. If you want to know now to screw over your man's family to keep him all to yourself then read Magpie by Hilary Davidson. This issue also includes excepts from the hard Bounce by editor Todd Robinson, which I intend to read soon.
Cozy Mysteries these are not. Aug 02, Craig Furchtenicht rated it it was amazing. Why haven't I discovered this series of short crime stories sooner? Better late than never. I loved every word of it. The opening tale, Lucy in the Pit is worth the mere dollar admission I paid.
It sets the tone for the entire collection of gritty stories about bad people doing even worse things. Great editing and even better writing.
If you like your fiction served with a heavy dose of noir then you will love Thuglit. Dec 03, Curtis Hempler rated it really liked it Shelves: There were a couple of stories that didn't quite do it for me, but that's the nature of an anthology. Overall, the quality of writing is great, and there's a lot of variety of voice and subject. Looking forward to reading the other volumes.
Hugely enjoyable, and a bargain in the Kindle store. Mar 11, Victor Whitman rated it it was ok. I'd call this mag the extreme side of the crime genre. Some of these stories, from unknown crime writers, were pretty good; others seemed to be written by beginners and were weaker. More proof that this style is very difficult to pull off.
Feb 28, Jason Duke rated it it was amazing. It's Thuglit, 'nuf said. Mar 24, Jack rated it it was amazing. Really good collection of noir. We got all bad guys, just that dome guys are worse and nobody wins. Good, gritty writing by various authors. I liked them all.