• Ballybunion in July part 2

    29 January 2023

    In a companion piece to last Sunday's set of photos, here are four more snaps of the Shans taken on a day trip to Ballybunion beach back in July.

     

    In the first, after a busy morning racing...

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  • Archie by Emi

    28 January 2023

    A VERY artistically talented Shanster called EMI has drawn some artwork based on my Archibald Lox series. As I've said before, although I love seeing artwork based on ANY of my books, I'm...

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  • Libraries and Manga

    26 January 2023

    My son Dante is starting to get in manga. He's a very strong reader, and reads books too (I wonder where he got THOSE genes from?!?), but he's developing a real love for manga, which I'm delighted...

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  • Brittany, B and the Circus

    25 January 2023

    A Shanster by the name of BRITTANY messaged me on Facebook yesterday to say she was reading my Zom-B series. She noted a couple of things which I thought were worth sharing.

     

    1) She said, "I...

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  • La Biblioteca de Mictlán

    23 January 2023

    There was a LONG Spanish language review of my Saga Of Darren Shan / Cirque Du Freak books a while back, on the site La Biblioteca de Mictlán. It includes a lengthy summation of the series, and the...

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  • Ballybunion in July

    22 January 2023

    On a grey, wet January Sunday, it's nice to cast my thoughts back to a sunny Monday in July when the Shans decided at the last minute to pop along to Ballybunion (our nearest beach) on a day trip.
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