The Shans head off on holiday today. We were seriously tempted to hit for Vampire Mountain -- in an attempt to roll with the times, Vancha March was charged by the other Vampire Princes with...

Just TWO WEEKS to go until my event at the Edinburgh Book Festival on Thursday 22nd August at 5.30pm! As I've said before, this will probably be my only public appearance of 2019, so miss me at...

I mentioned Bec in yesterday's post about the Lake Of Souls, so this seems like a good time to share a scintillating fan drawing of her by an artist called Kate. I think Kate nicely captured Bec's...

Italian reviewer Frankie has been working their way through all twelve books in my Saga Of Darren Shan. There's been a delay with the last few, because Frankie has started publishing them on a new...

Do you think you could write a quick, one-minute summary of the entire Saga Of Darren Shan / Cirque Du Freak series?!? It's a tall ask, but one brave teenage reviewer decided to take on the...

The Shan clan decamped to the Aquadome in Tralee a few weeks back, for a morning of swimming and watery sliding. (Well, Dante and I went swimming. The ladies went socialising with one of Mrs Shan's...