Christmas is almost upon us, and as many of you will no doubt be shutting up shop for the holidays and putting your technology aside so that you can exclusively focus on the special people in your life (some hope, right?!?!), I figured I'd send out a little Christmas card to you now, while I still have your attention. These are scans of the cards that the Shans made up to send to our friends and family members this year, and I've written a short message on one of the pages, especially for... YOU!!!

The brilliant drawing of us was made by Irish artist EVA BYRNE -- her Insta handle, if you'd like to check out more of her work, is @ofwordsandcreatures

A quick reminder, if you haven't yet read it, that I've posted the 2023 version of my annual SHANTA CLAUS story online, in which characters from Cirque Du Freak, The Demonata, Zom-B, Archibald Lox and my other books all feature. There are also some Shanified Christmas songs, and a freaked-up adaptation of Twas The Night Before Christmas. You can find them all here: https://darrenshan.com/extras/list/christmas-specials

I'll be posting on my blog daily, as usual, all the way up to and through Christmas, but just in case you don't pick up those feeds between now and then, I'll take this chance to wish you a thoroughly Shantastic Christmas and a ghoulishly gleeful New Year!!