You all know what to expect on my blog on a Sunday, don't you? So here's the usual cluster of Shan family photos.

In the first, I love the way Dante and Gaia are playing with a toy cake. Like...

Let'ssssss make it a sssssuper Sssssssaturday with four ssssssssuperb piecesssssss of Evra Van fan art!!!! :-)

Firsssssst up we have a drawing by a fan called Renee, featuring a very...

As a child and teenager, in the Long Ago Time before the internet, I'd often struggle to find good new reading material. There weren't many places where you could read reviews of books and find out...

Two weeks from today, on Thursday July 1st, Book 4 of my Archibald Lox series goes on sale. I could waffle on and tell you how good I think it is, but hey, that would hardly be an objective...

A blogger called The Pewter Wolf is going to be featuring a special Darren Shan Q&A blog on July 1st, to link in with the release of Book 4 of my new Archibald Lox series.

"Why is it so...

Tattoo Tuesday might not be as regular a feature on my blog posts as it once was, but when the stray one comes along, it tends to be a stunner -- and this is one of the most stunning I've yet to...