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January 13, 2012
My celebrity stalker!
Help!! I'm being stalked by Jacqueline Wilson!!! She seems to follow me everywhere I go, to the theatre, underground on the Tube... is there to be no escape for poor, unfortunate Darren Shan?!?!? Heh heh, but seriously, our paths HAVE bizarrely crossed over the last couple of weeks. First, Bas and I were waiting for a Tube train one day, on our way back from a day touring Hampstead, where we hadn't been before. As a train came to stop, I spotted a familiar face in the carriage that we we...
January 8, 2012
Some of my favourite things… in 2011
Although I included a quick round-up of work-related highlights from 2011 in the January issue of the Shanville Monthly, I didn't talk about any of my cultural highlights of the year. So here they are! First up, naturally, must be books! I read over 20 books last year (at my peak, many years ago, I used to read 100 a year, but these days, with all the writing and editing I do, I'm happy enough if I break the 20 mark). I enjoyed the last coupld od Steig Larsson books a lot, as well as Stephen ...
January 1, 2012
The Forgotten Blogger
Happy New Year, everybody! And welcome to my first blog of 2012 -- and, if my recent blogging schedule is anything to go by, it will quite possibly be one of a rare breed this year!! I'm well aware that my blogging entries have dipped alarmingly over the last year or so. I used to blog very regularly, almost every day, but now my blogs have become something of a rarity. In fact it's been more than a month since my last one! There are various reasons for this. One is that I used to address iss...
December 21, 2011
Shanta Claus!!
My Shanta Claus story, which I post for a week or two every Christmas, is online NOW!! I plan to remove it again before the New Year, so hurry on and read it quickly before you miss this year's window of opportunity!! http://www.darrenshan.com/extras/feat...
November 25, 2011
Better than you think
I've been busy editing all 12 of the "Zom-B" books over the last few weeks. I've finished first drafts of all 12 books already, but I like to spread the editing process out over a few years, giving myself plenty of time to tweak and get each book exactly the way I want. This is the first time I've been able to read through all 12 books, one after the other -- it will also be the last, as I'm close to producing my final drafts of the first couple of books -- once I've done my final bit of work...
November 13, 2011
Irish Book Awards
If you're Irish, this is the last day (Sunday 13th) that you can vote for "Ocean of Blood" in the Irish Book Awards. If you haven't done so already, please vote for it now, and ask any of your friends who liked it to vote for it too. Cheers!! http://www.irishbookawards.ie/PublicV...
November 8, 2011
Farewell Old Friend
This day last week I bid my final farewell to an old friend of mine -- a certain orange-haired vampire who went by the name of Larten Crepsley! On November 1st I did my final bit of editing on Brothers to the Death, the fourth and final book in The Saga Of Larten Crepsley. Although the book won't be released until late April 2012, because of the way publishing works, I always have to deliver my final draft several months before a book sees print. It's all done and dusted now -- I've gone thro...
October 31, 2011
Zom-B in the USA!!!
My American publishers, LittleBrown, have bought the rights to my “Zom-B” series!!! They will be publishing all 12 books at the same time that they come out in the UK, starting in September or October 2012, with a new book every 3 months. And as the following article about the sale mentions, the books will be illustrated!!! We’re still discussing the exact specifications of this, how many pictures we’re going to include in each book, whether they’ll be single panels or graphic-novel type page...
October 28, 2011
All done on first!
Today I finished the first draft of the twelfth and final book in my Zom-B series. (I've been referring to it as Zom-B 12 on my Twitter, but of course that's not the actual name -- I won't be revealing the titles of the individual books for quite a while yet.) So, does that mean the series is done and dusted?!? Well, not quite. I work in quite a strange way. I like to give myself LOTS of time to work on a series, so that I can rewrite and edit at my leisure, across the whole span of the serie...
October 24, 2011
October 28th Radio Documentary
There will be a lengthy (approx 20 minutes) Limerick Lives Documentary about me on Live 95FM on Friday 28th October just after the 11.00am news on the Joe Nash show. If you live in the Limerick region of Ireland, you can listen to it on your radio, otherwise you should be able to access it through the 95FM website: http://www.live95fm.ie/
