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September competition closes SOON

This is your last chance to enter my September COMPETITION!! It closes to entries one minute before midnight, UK time, TONIGHT!! (Tuesday 12th September.) When I released the paperback of Archibald Lox and the Legion of the Lost -- book 9 of my Archibald Lox series -- I produced an ultra-limited collector's edition of just 5 copies, from proof copies (also known as ARCs). I'm keeping the 1/5 copy for myself, and am giving the other four away as prizes. Each copy is signed and numbered, and d...

5 weeks until the Future

We're just a little over 5 weeks away from the release of FATHER OF THE FUTURE, my new Darren Dash book for older readers. A satirical time-travelling tale, looking at the perils of placing too much power in the hands of an AI, with most of the action set in the 29th century, it's very different to most of my books but has been going down well with early readers who were sent review copies. The latest review comes courtesy of THE US REVIEW OF BOOKS. Thier reviewer, Michael Radon, summed up h...

9 Best Vampire Manga With No Anime Adaptations

GameRant ran an article a while back entitled 9 Best Vampire Manga With No Anime Adaptations. As you'd imagine, it focuses on nine vampire manga which haven't yet been adapted into anime, and Cirque Du Freak is one of the nine (listed at #2). There was exploratory talk between my agent and Japanese publishers, many years ago, of possibly adapting Cirque Du Freak into an anime. My publishers were keen to push the project further, but unfortunately the movie rights were under option in the USA...

Back to School Archie sale reminder

This is a quick reminder that I'm running a Back To School promo on ALL NINE eBooks in my Archibald Lox series. During the sale, the first eBook is FREE to download as it always is, the price for eBook 2 remains at $0.99, and the price for every other eBook in the series has been REDUCED to $0.99 as well -- that's right, each book costs JUST 99 CENTS to buy!! That's a 50% discount on eBooks 3 and 4, and a whopping 66% discount on eBooks 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9!!!If you buy all 9 books, you'll pay a t...

Cirque Du Freak back on PEACOCK

Good news for fans of the Cirque Du Freak movie living in the USA. Streaming giant PEACOCK has made more than 100 horror movies available to its subscribers from September 1st, and Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant is one of the horrific one hundred!! If you're a Peacock subsciriber, and you've never seen it before, or are keen to revisit it, now's your chance!! For a list of all the other movies in the Horror 100, click here: https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3......

Monthly newsletter - September 2023

The September issue of my free online monthly newsletter is now live, and includes the following... ...info about a Back To School promo on my Archibald Lox series, with all nine books on offer at a crazy low price... ...a teaser for the cover of my next Darren Dash novel... ...new book reviews, an unofficial audio announcement, some other odds and ends... ...and I'm running an exciting COMPETITION too! For all of the above and more, click here: https://darrenshan.com/news/sh...

Back to School Archie sale

I'm running a Back To School promo on ALL NINE eBooks in my Archibald Lox series. This only applies to the nine short books which were originally released, not the omnibus collections which came later. During the sale, the first eBook will be FREE to download as it always is, the price for eBook 2 will remain at $0.99, and the price for every other eBook in the series will be REDUCED to $0.99 as well -- that's right, each book will cost JUST 99 CENTS to buy!! That's a 50% discount on eBooks 3 an...

Father of the Future cover teaser

FATHER OF THE FUTURE, my next Darren Dash book for mature readers, goes on sale on October 18th. It's a satirical, time-travelling tale that looks at the dangers of putting too much power into the hands of an AI, and what happens to humanity if we cede too much control over our lives to the machines that we create. I'm not going to reveal the cover just yet, but here's a sneak teaser for it, revealing a small, central part of the overall work. I think my designer has done a fabulous job, and...

Five Nights At Freddys

My son Dante is excited by the forthcoming release of the FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S movie in late October (even though he's never played the game!) and is keeping his fingers crossed that its certificate will be low enough to allow me to take him to see it at the cinema. Being rather less excited, I'm kind of hoping it gets a 16 rating, but time will tell, and if the winds blow in the young Shan's favour, I'll grit my teeth and take him along!! :-) Josh Hutcherson is one of the stars of the fi...

Toothy Fan Art Friday

I was chewing gum last night, after eating some fruit and yogurt which I'd sprinkled with crushed nuts and seeds, when I felt the tooth in the far left lower corner of my mouth go SNAP!!! Luckily I was able to get an appointment at my dentist's this afternoon, and the gap has been filled -- rather like the gap in the Pit Of Stakes was filled all those years ago!!! (Sorry!! Too soon?!?) Anyway, that put me in a TOOTHY mood when it came to putting together today's FAN ART FRIDAY, so I scanned ...