Spent the last few hours updating the Shop and Covers sections of my web site. Doesn't sound like a lot of work, but appearances can be deceptive!! I had to check on Amazon and Barnes & Noble to see what books were and were not available now. Then I found out that the Audio CD apaptations of the first 3 books in my vampire series are now listed on Amazon UK, so I had to add links for those. And then ... in the end, a job I thought would take maybe half an hour ended up taking at least two hours!!! This is why I don't update my site as often as I'd like to -- the simplest of tasks usually runs over by a lot more than I expected! Still, I don't feel too guilty -- I provide updates a lot more than most writers!! You can find links to the new stuff by clicking here, if interested: http://p090.ezboard.com/fdarrenshanmessageboardfrm9

Had a night out with Pablo (my board moderator) in Limerick last night. Just sat in a pub (the Trinity Rooms) having a few drinks and chatting. The pub used to called Doc's, and I used to go there a lot when I was a student and in my early 20s. Hadn't been there in years, so it was nice to check it out -- hasn't changed that much. Popped in to a night club briefly afterwards (it was attached to the pub, and entrance was free, so why not?!?), but neither of us has ever had much time for discos (except for indie discos when we were younger, where we happily thrashes around to music we actually liked!), so we left after a short sojourn.