Archive for the ‘Writing’ Category

Marano looks back at the Butthole Surfers concert that messed with his head and taught him how to break reality with his fiction.

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.

Bits that were cut from Mike’s interview with Darren Aronofsky about Black Swan.

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

Just posting for my students the topics I’ll be covering and the possible readings I’ll be assigning in my Grub Street class “The Smart Page-Turner Strikes Back!”

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

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

Hey, just following up on my posts here and here about my upcoming class “Writing the Smart Page-Turner” at Boston’s Grub Street, which will be held Thursday nights from 7 to 10 PM at Grub’s downtown Boston location.  I’ve been getting e-mails from people asking me about what level of instruction I’ll be providing. So with [...]

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 [...]