To tie in with a Kobo Mother's Day sale in the USA, I've reduced the price of the eBook of my Darren Dash novel, Midsummer's Bottom, to just $0.99 for the next few days. I've also reduced the price across all other sellers of the eBook -- Amazon, Apple, B&N, Google Play, Smashwords, etc -- and in all territories, so it's just £0.99 in the UK, €0.99 in European countries, and a similar low price everywhere else.

Midsummer's Bottom is utterly different to all my other books. A broad, farcical comedy, inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, it features more fairies than you can count, and the world's most terrible actors. There are changelings, mischievous imps, and lots of complicated, hilarious romantic entanglements. It's Darren Dash (and Darren Shan) as you've never seen him before, as if blown in from some alternate universe where instead of writing dark, horrific tales for the last quarter of a century, he'd been writing frothy, romantic comedies instead!!! I had no idea what the reaction would be like when I wrote it, but it actually tickled a lot of funny bones around the world and garnered positive reviews all round, some snippets of which I'm including below in the hope of swinging those of you who are sitting on the fence!!! :-)

As I said, the price of the eBook has been reduced to just $0.99, but only until the middle of the coming week. You should be able to buy it through your online store of choice, i.e. wherever you normally buy your eBooks. If you'd prefer a physical copy, you can buy a paperback edition through Amazon stores worldwide, but sadly I can't offer any reductions on that -- the power of the fey folk only stretches so far!!! :-)

"A clever and kinky theatrical romp with a big heart." Kirkus.

"It is comedic, a little hectic, and the strength of its rich cast keeps things moving at a delightfully entertaining pace... this unique tale is that rare reimagination of elements of a classic story that captures all the comedy, drama, and emotional satisfaction of its original and in some ways exceeds them." US Review of Books.

"Midsummer's Bottom delights with Shakespearian couplets and a cacophony of human foibles that smash up to a satisfying ending. Tightly-written and imaginative, Midsummer's Bottom glides the reader through a wonderful story towards a rewarding, and unexpected, end." Self-Publishing Review.