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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:

Rue Morgue’s hosting an excerpt from Michael Marano’s novella “Displacement”, lead-in story of Marano’s coll. STORIES FROM THE PLAGUE YEARS.

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

An explanation of Michael Marano’s use of screenplays and teleplays for his new Revenge of the Smart Page-Turner class.

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

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.

Michael Marano’s collection Stories from the Plague Years is available for pre-order, and selling well.

Hey… I’m posting this because I’ve been getting emails about the specifics of my upcoming “Writing the Smart Page-Turner” class at Grub Street in Boston this fall, which will be taught at Grub Street HQ in downtown Boston Thursday nights 7-10 PM starting on September 16. The gist of the class is–how do you make [...]