User Profile
Add Friend
Add Note
Track User
Send Message
Send V-Gift
Mike Marano's Drawer of Inappropriate Starches
Broodings of a Horror Writer/Critic
Created on 2009-03-21 22:37:22 (#19174987), last updated 2009-09-03
18 comments received, 10 comments posted
Plus Account [Gift]
11 Journal Entries, 25 Tags, 0 Memories, 0 Virtual Gifts, 1 Userpic
Basic Info| Name: | mikemarano |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1964 |
| Location: | Somerville, Massachusetts, United States |
| Website: | http://www.myspace.com/michaelmarano |
Bio Hey, Folks. I'm Mike Marano, also known as "Mad Prof. Mike". Since 1990, I've been doing the "Headbanger Movie Reviews" for the nationally syndicated show Public Radio MOVIE MAGAZINE INTERNATIONAL (www.shoestring.org). At a very young age, I decided I wanted to spend my life watching movies, and somehow, I'm doing just that. I also cover movies for venues like Cemetery Dance, Science Fiction Weekly, Sci Fi Magazine, Sci-Fi Universe, Paste Magazine, The Weekly Dig, Chizine, SuicideGirls... the list goes on for a while. I cover up to five movies a week, which can sort of make your brain melt, but then again, so can a real job, so... I'm not bitchin'!
I also write horror and some science-fiction. My first book, Dawn Song, made a pretty big splash, netting a bunch of really good reviews and The Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild Awards... which is really cool, because the awards themselves are nifty-looking things to just have on your shelf (even though currently the things are still packed in a box from my last move). I did a novella-length adaptation of Joe Stefano's old Outer Limits script "A Feasibility Study" which I'm really kind of proud of. My work has appeared on Gothic.Net, and has been anthologized in books like Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn, Queer Fear and Outsiders, among others. My work has been translated into German, Czech and Greek. Stories from the Plague Years, a collection of my short fiction, reprints and two new works, will be coming out soon from Cemetery Dance Publications.
For a few years now, I've been Fiction Editor of the award-winning online magazine ChiZine (www.ChiZine.com).
I also write horror and some science-fiction. My first book, Dawn Song, made a pretty big splash, netting a bunch of really good reviews and The Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild Awards... which is really cool, because the awards themselves are nifty-looking things to just have on your shelf (even though currently the things are still packed in a box from my last move). I did a novella-length adaptation of Joe Stefano's old Outer Limits script "A Feasibility Study" which I'm really kind of proud of. My work has appeared on Gothic.Net, and has been anthologized in books like Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn, Queer Fear and Outsiders, among others. My work has been translated into German, Czech and Greek. Stories from the Plague Years, a collection of my short fiction, reprints and two new works, will be coming out soon from Cemetery Dance Publications.
For a few years now, I've been Fiction Editor of the award-winning online magazine ChiZine (www.ChiZine.com).
ConnectInterests (21):
chuck berry, classics, comedy, comic books, elvis, garage, goth, grub street, harsh new wave, horror, horror punk, industrial, jerry lee, mc5, metal, noir, psychobilly, punk, retro '80s, satire, science fiction
External Services:
 | mikemarano@livejournal.com |
Friends [View Entries] Friends (25):
brent_kellmer, catling, claireeddy, dinanno, entrope, frabjousdave, gnomi, gwynraven, kateelliott, keith418, mabfan, mikemarano, nihilistic_kid, norilana, quietspaces, readingthedark, scarlettina, sci_fi_writer, scottedelman, shadesong, skidspoppe, slipjig, slweippert, wildelven, yuki_onna
Friend of (25):
Communities [View Entries] Watching (3):
Feeds [View Entries] Watching (0)
