Something a little bit odd -- but also very nice -- has been happening since lockdown started. Lots of people on Twitter and Facebook have been sharing photos of their bookshelves. I dunno, maybe that's a regular thing and I've only noticed it now, but while fans of mine have shared the occasional bookshelf snap over the years, I don't recall ever seeing a deluge like this.

Some of these bookshelves wouldn't look out of place in a library or book shop -- the book collector within me has drooled a few times while gazing at them! And they ALL contain Darren Shan books, of course -- they'd hardly be worthy of the name "bookshelves" if they didn't!! :-) But they can be tricky to spot in some instances, so see how long it takes you to find them all...

In order features, these shelves come from the homes of Morgan, Stacy, Darin and Molly Marie. There'll be more shelves coming your way later in the week, and I might even get around to taking a few snaps of MY beauties too...

It will be a while before the serious Shan collectors are able to add physical copies of my Archibald Lox books to their shelves, as they're still only on sale as eBooks. There WILL be paperbacks in the not too distant future, but it will be at least a few months of a wait, if not longer, for various reasons that you can find in the May issue of the Shanville Monthly, which also features a lot more info about the new series: https://www.darrenshan.com/news/shanville-monthly/