Stories From the Plague Years June 8, 2010 • • • I’d like to invite you all to check out the new website for my good friend and amazing writing mentor Michael Marano: www.michaelmarano.com. I just finished designing it today for him in preparation of the upcoming release of his new collection of short stories [...]

Award-winning novelist, Public Radio commentator and cultural critic Michael Marano will be reading from his novelette “Shibboleth”, an original work from his upcoming collection Stories from the Plague Years, this MONDAY, JUNE 8th, 8PM at Boston’s Grub Street, Inc., a non-profit creative writing center located at 160 Boylston Street in Boston (near the Park Street [...]

My dear friend and mentor Michael Marano has recently begun writing for the website Suicide Girls! Check out his first article here entitled “Ten Lessons Spider-Man Can Teach Our First Nerd President”! Click here to read the article on Suicide Girls! Bookmark to: Hide Sites

**Just a quick update! Enrollment for the “Art of Genre” class at Grub Street has been extended to THURSDAY the 15th of January, and there are scholarships available for reduced tuition. Pass along to anyone who might be interested!–** ChiZi ​ne Ficti​on Edito​r,​ Stoke​r and Inter​natio​nal Horro​r Guild​ Award​-​winni​ng horro​r and SF write​r Micha​el Maran​o [...]

Michael Marano will be teaching a new writing course at Grub Street, a non-profit writing center dedicated to nurturing writers and connecting readers with the wealth of writing talent in the Boston area! Class Summary: Exciting plots and larger-than-life characters are the cornerstones of so-called “popular” or “genre” fiction, but in an era when Michael [...]

Michael Marano’s review of the new Keifer Sutherland horror movie MIRRORS is now up on the SciFi site. Looks like I was right to pass on this one. Let’s play a game, shall we? I don’t need to tell you a lot of the set up of Mirrors. All I’ll say is that when the [...]

This has been a VERY productive week, thus far. Last night I put the finishing touches on the illustration for the wraparound cover of STORIES FROM THE PLAGUE YEARS! STORIES FROM THE PLAGUE YEARS is the forthcoming collection of horror and dark science-fiction stories from Michael Marano, The Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild Award-winning [...]

The Nevada desert, 1957. In a tableau that’s equal parts Robert Williams hot-rod painting and Ansel Adams photograph, a bunch of reckless teens risk getting wrecked as they hot dog a U.S. Army convoy, all while that subversive hip-swinger Elvis Presley from The Ed Sullivan Show blares on the radio. Don’t these kids have any [...]