• Finished signing!

    20 January 2024

    My fundraising campaign for The Terrified Troll (my first ever picture book) finished last week. The artist, Eva Byrne, and I far exceeded our financial goal, which is going to make it a lot easier...

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  • Rereading Cirque Du Freak as an adult

    18 January 2024

    What's it like re-reading my Cirque Du Freak books as an adult?!?

     

    A fan called Luke Henderson found out last year when he decided to re-read the series more than a decade after he read them as...

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  • Return to work

    17 January 2024

    Back in November 2022, when we had to move out of our home following a house fire, I'd been working on a new Darren Shan YA book. That's lain idle since then -- with all the trauma of the fire,...

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  • School events 2024

    17 January 2024

    Although I'm busy doing Zoom calls and in-the-flesh meetings with people who bought those perks in my Terrified Troll fundraising campaign a while back, I'm still squeezing in the occasional...

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  • Father AI audio book

    16 January 2024

    Good news for audio book fans -- Father Of The Future, my most recent Darren Dash novel for adult readers, is now on sale as an AI-narrated audio book through GOOGLE PLAY stores worldwide. Here's...

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  • Zom-B TV show update

    15 January 2024

    I'm afraid I have sad news for those of you hungering for a Zom-B TV show. As some of you may recall, the series was optioned by Electric Shadow Company several years ago. They hired sceenwriter...

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