The Darren Shan memes continue to come fairly thick and fast, mostly through the medium of Twitter. They continue to amaze and impress me -- I'd have thought, by this stage of the game, there would...

There was a very sweet review recently of Cirque Du Freak by an author called Bernard Catam, who lives in the Philippines. I love it when any reader takes the time to write a review for one of my...

Vending machines are normally associated with snacks and drinks, but they can offer so much more. I remember when I travelled to Japan for the first time, nearly twenty years ago, and spotting...

Two weeks from today, on Tuesday November 9th, Volume 4 of the Cirque Du Freak manga omnibus goes on sale. Collecting books 7 and 8 of the series, it sees the starts of the second half of Darren...

The Volume 2 omnibus of my Archibald Lox series, collecting books 4 to 6 and presenting them as a single storyline, officially goes on sale a week from today, on Monday November 1st. That's when...

Now that we're well into autumn, I'm looking back at my store of summer photos with envy. In truth, it wasn't an especially sunny summer in Ireland (is it ever?!?), but looking at these, I can...