It's World Book Day!!

First up, you can check out videos of me and 152 (that's right -- one hundred and fifty-two!!!) other authors wishing everyone a Happy World Book Day. It's been put together by a team who emailed lots of writers and got back an incredible number of responses. You can watch them all, or jump to your favourites. Click on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgLAfk8Ck1M

Secondly, while I'm not doing anything special for it this year -- indeed, it's been quite a while since I've actively got involved with WBD -- it's always nice to see books being rightfully celebrated, and I decided to get in on the action by offering up a few World Book Day appropriate photos. In the first, a fan of my books, called Christopher, created some vampire vegetarian recipes, specifically for WBD this year -- yummy!!!

The other three photos, of fans cosplaying, date back a few months, but I know that lots of my fans have dressed up as characters from my books over the years, so I thought this would be as good a time as any to share them! A fan called Darren (great name!!) stars in the first two, as Evra Von and Steve Leopard.

Another fan called Josh takes over for the final photo, clad in a delightful shade of red as everyone's favourite grumpy vampire mentor, Mr Crepsley!!

The March issue of the Shanville Monthly went live a few days ago, with all the latest Darren Shan news and updates. You can check it out here: https://darrenshan.com/news/shanville-monthly