Joshua Chaplinsky is the Managing Editor of LitReactor.com. He has also written for the popular film site TwitchFilm and for ChuckPalahniuk.net, the official website of Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk. His short fiction has/will appear in Zetetic, Motherboard, L'allure des Mots, Pantheon Magazine, Fabula Argentea, and Crack the Spine.
Aaron Fox-Lerner was born in Los Angeles and currently lives in Beijing. His fiction has appeared in Thuglit, The Puritan, Crime Factory, Bound Off, Shotgun Honey, and other publications.
Paul Heatley's work has appeared online and in print for various publications including Spelk, Horror Sleaze Trash, Shotgun Honey, Flash Fiction Offensive, and Handjob. His story "Red Eyed Richard" appeared in issue three of Thuglit. His novella The Motel Whore is available for Kindle from Amazon. He lives in the north east of England.
T.L. Huchu's work has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Gutter, The Manchester Review and elsewhere.
Russell W. Johnson is a lawyer in North Carolina who got serious about fiction writing a few years ago. He recently sold my first story to Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and has been published in some university literary and academic journals that nobody reads.
CARL PRESS trained as a computer engineer, and has spent most of his working life behind a computer screen in one capacity or another. He's also part of an amateur dramatics group in his spare time. He began writing as a sideline with non-fiction computing articles before moving onto his other favorite subjects, television and history. Later he branched out into fiction, short stories and plays—with a particular love for crime and the supernatural. He is currently working on a radio play.
J. M. Taylor lives in Boston with his wife and son. Under his real name—and as Taylor, he has appeared in Crime Factory, Dark Valentine, Morpheus Tales, and Yellow Mama, among others. His novel, Night of the Furies, published by New Pulp Press, was listed by Spinetingler as one of the best crime novels of 2013. You can find him on Twitter at @taylorjm7
TODD ROBINSON (Editor) is the creator and Chief Editor of Thuglit. His writing has appeared in Blood & Tacos, Plots With Guns, Needle Magazine, Shotgun Honey, Strange, Weird, and Wonderful, Out of the Gutter, Pulp Pusher, Grift, Demolition Magazine, CrimeFactory, All Due Respect, and several anthologies. He has been nominated three times for the Derringer Award, twice shortlisted for Best American Mystery Stories, selected for Writers Digest's Year's Best Writing 2003, lost the Anthony Award both in 2013 AND 2014, and won the inaugural Bullet Award in June 2011. The first collection of his short stories, Dirty Words and his debut novel The Hard Bounce are now available and his upcoming novel, Rough Trade will be released by Polis Books in 2016
ALLISON GLASGOW (Editor) neither whips nor nay-nays
JULIE MCCARRON (Editor) is a celebrity ghostwriter with three New York Times bestsellers to her credit. Her books have appeared on every major entertainment and television talk show; they have been featured in Publishers Weekly and excerpted in numerous magazines including People. Prior to collaborating on celebrity bios, Julie was a book editor for many years. Julie started her career writing press releases and worked in the motion picture publicity department of Paramount Pictures and for Chasen & Company in Los Angeles. She also worked at General Publishing Group in Santa Monica and for the Dijkstra Literary Agency in Del Mar before turning to editing/writing full-time. She lives in Southern California.
55 Stories to benefit Protect, the political lobby of the National Association to Protect Children, whose victories include the Circle of Trust act and the HERO Corps, which hires wounded veterans to assist law enforcement in hunting online predators. 100% of proceeds goes to PROTECT.
"Do yourself a favor: Before you start reading WELCOME BACK, JACK, clear your schedule. You're not going to be able to stop until you've seen it through to the explosive finale."
—Rob Hart, author of New Yorked
COMING SOON FROM
THUGLIT!
New stories from Rob Hart, Hilary Davidson, Angel Colon, Terrence McCauley, Johnny Shaw, Jen Conley, Justin Porter, Thomas Pluck, Ed Kurtz, Jordan Harper and Todd Robinson
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