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Advance copy of STORIES FROM THE PLAGUE YEARS

Posted: January 6, 2011 in Books, Cemetery Dance, Displacement, horror fiction, Publishing, Shibboleth, Stories from the PLague Years, Writing
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I’ve been writing professionally since about 1992. And I have to tell you, I NEVER get sick of this–the first moment you hold something you’ve written as a physical artifact. It’s always a rush. It’s always a thrill. Brian Freeman at Cemetery Dance Publications just sent along one of two existing advance copies of my collection Stories from the Plague Years. It’s gorgeous. Yeah, I’m saying that as a proud papa. But beyond that, the binding, the paper,  Bob Morrish’s layout and Gabrielle Faust’s beautiful cover and interior illustrations are sublime. My crappy camera phone doesn’t do it justice, but here’s a pic.

Review from Daniel Kraus at Booklist

Posted: January 3, 2011 in Articles, Books, Reviews, Stories from the PLague Years, Writing
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My collection Stories from the Plague Years recently got a really nice review from YA horror author Daniel Kraus in Booklist:

Few horror authors are better equipped to write about madness than Marano. With an expansive vocabulary, a tenacious commitment to poetic prose, and a willingness to follow whatever discursive paths his whim takes, Marano is an acquired taste—but without doubt possessed of a unique talent. He’s at his best when striving for clarity, as in “Displacement,” the novella that anchors this book of short stories. Dean is a serial killer describing the brutal justice he handed out to those whose emotional poisons gave him a deadly cancer. It’s a tale that takes several unexpected and delicious turns, somehow combining a Poe-like belligerence and a Clive Barker–like vividness with pop-culture touchstones as commonplace as Sex and the City and Dr. Phil. The other, mostly first-person stories are hit and miss, but when they hit, they hit big: “Burden,” about the ghosts of an AIDS-ravaged gay community, possesses an unusual power, and “Little Round Head,” about a feral child raised by subterranean beasts, is nothing short of a horror classic. –Daniel Kraus

If you think I’m not stealing “Few horror authors are better equipped to write about madness than Marano”  as a tagline, you’re nuts!  Stories from the Plague Years will be coming out soon. It’s selling out fast at Cemetery Dance Publications, but you can still order copies here.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a good New Year!

STORIES FROM THE PLAGUE YEARS is now available for Pre-Order!

Posted: October 27, 2010 in Books, Publishing, Stories from the PLague Years, Writing
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Yes! My collection from Cemetery Dance Publications, Stories from the Plague Years, is now available for pre-order! What blows my mind is that the book is 60% sold out on the first day that it’s available for pre-order.

 

It’s moments like this that writers live for, y’know?

I’ll be posting more about the book, which features gorgeous art work from Gabrielle Faust and an Introduction by John Shirley. Thanks, everyone! Your support means so much to me…. –Mike

Snapshots from the Plague Years

Posted: August 24, 2010 in Articles, Books, Publishing, Stories from the PLague Years, Videos, Writing
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My short story collection, Stories from the Plague Years is in the final stages of preparation and production from Cemetery Dance Publications. The collection deals thematically with the plagues that killed my friends in the 1980s–urban violence, rage, drugs… and AIDS. I’ve been talking to some younger people who have no idea what this felt like. The terror, the despair, and the anger at polite society that didn’t care that people were dying. Here are snapshots–A False Prophets video for the song “Never Again Again”:

And Diamanda Galas, “Double Barrel Prayer” (which she wrote as an act of mourning for her brother):

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