Archive for the ‘Writing’ Category

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:

Just one week left to enroll in my new class in Pop Fiction writing at Boston’s Grub Street, The Smart Page-Turner Reloaded! You can read my break-down of the class here. The official Grub Street description and registration page is here.

After some brainstorming on the part of Grub Street and myself, the core of what I’d previous mentioned would be my Master Class in Pop Fiction has been re-tooled into a new Level II, Intermediate class called… The Smart Page-Turner RELOADED! Students no longer have to apply to the class, as they would for a master-level class.

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 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.

Two new interview by Mike Marano at SuicideGirls!

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.