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Hey everybody! I’d like to announce my new class, Screen and Stage…to the Page! Using the Techniques of Playwrights and Screenwriters to Write Prose Fiction. It’s a 10-week that will meet Wednesday nights from 6:30 to 9: 30 at Grub Street HQ in downtown Boston starting January 11, 2012. Here’s the official class description:

Michael Marano’s collection Stories from the Plague Years is named one of Booklist’s Top Ten Horror Books of the Year!

An outline of Mike Marano’s new Master Class in Popular Fiction at Boston’s Grub Street, with a list of readings.

Announcing award-winning author Mike Marano’s new Master Class in Popular Fiction.

A week-by-week breakdown of Michael Marano’s new REVENGE of the Smart Page-Turner! class at Boston’s Grub Street.

Announcing a new class at Grub Street from Mike Marano, REVENGE of the Smart Page-Turner!

A big, beautiful box of my comp copies of Stories from the Plague Years just arrived from Cemetery Dance. They’re gorgeous. Gabrielle Faust’s unbearably lovely illustrations look incredible on the nice, heavy stock paper. As a writer, you live for moments like this.

Marano doing the signature sheets for STORIES FROM THE PLAGUE YEARS.

The Advance Copy of Stories from the Plague Years arrived today. Pic.

Marano’s collection Stories from the Plague Years gets a review from YA horror writer Daniel Kraus.