Just two more weeks until FATHER OF THE FUTURE, my next Darren Dash book for adult readers, goes on sale on October 18th!! It's a satirical, time-travelling tale that looks at the dangers of...

The Halloween edition of my online monthly newsletter is now live. All the latest Darren Shan news and updates, including the cover and pre-order links for Father Of The Future (my next book for...

The librarians in Armfield Academy in the UK clearly have excellent taste in books -- they've made me their author of the month, as you can see from this Twitter post of theirs. Hurrah!!! Hopefully...

I've read out lots of different scenes from mine at events over the years, but the two I've done WAY more than any other are the scene in Cirque Du Freak when the wolf man bites off a woman's hand...

I ran a BookBub promo for the first Archibald Lox eBook earlier this week, and it's given the book a BIG boost. As you can see from the attached screenshots of various Amazon charts, it got to the...

An article was published in the UK recently, listing the best opening lines of a book as voted for by 2000 readers in a poll. I agree with the number 1 choice -- Dickens' brilliant opening to A...