This is your final chance to enter the September Shanville Monthly competition. The window for entries closes at 11.59pm UK time tonight, Monday 14th September, and I'll be drawing the seven lucky...

During our staycation in Carlow last month, the Shan clan went on a day trip to Courtown in Wexford, primarily to visit a beach. It was a warmer day than the clouds in some of the photos suggest --...

Isn't this just the cutest thing ever?!? A little Harkat Mulds plushy, made by a fan called Frances. She's replaced Harkat's normal mask with a Covid-combating mask, and look!! It's detachable, so...

I spotted a couple of articles recently about a young, first-time novelist in Wigan called Taylor Walker, who has cited a meeting with me as a turning point in her path to publication, which was...

In the wake of the Artemis Fowl film flop, plenty of journos were quick to flag up other YA book-series -to-movie adaptations that had fallen at the first or second hurdle, and naturally the Cirque...

I decided to do a quick check on sales of the first three Archibald Lox books at the end of August -- the BookBub promotion marked the end of my active marketing of the eBooks, so it seemed like a...