Look at these happy students from The King's School in Pontefract (which is in West Yorkshire, in England). After reading Cirque Du Freak, their teacher encouraged them to write letters to me, and this is a photo of them with their finished products. I've got to say, I don't recall ever being THIS happy to be given a homework assignment when I was a kid back in school!!! Then again, we never read a book like Cirque Du Freak when I was a nipper, so maybe THAT is the freaking difference!!!!! :-)

I haven't been doing any virtual school events recently -- since my house fire back in November, I've been a bit of a nomad, without an office. We've moved into a lovely house now, which a kind aunt of mine is letting us use while our house is being restored, but we're still settling down -- we don't have a wifi connection at the moment, so I've been popping up to my parents' house every day to do my blog posts! But we're due to be connected for broadband this Friday, so things should start returning to normal after the weekend.

In short, if you're a teacher or librarian interested in setting up an online Darren Shan event, my doors will soon be opening for business again, so feel free to get in touch if you wish to make an enquiry. You can contact me by email: post at darrenshan dot com -- if you're not able to format that into a working email address, then you're probably best to steer clear of virtual events!!!

My online events run for 30-35 minutes. I do a reading, chat about myself a bit, then take questions from the students. They're always fun, and always free -- I don't charge anything for them.