I've almost concluded my editing duties on "Demon Thief" -- should wrap it up tomorrow. There was one major gaffe, which my sharp-eyed editor fortunately spotted -- at one stage, I make mention of the film "2001: a Space Odyssey", except, in a display of bumbling incompetence, I called it "2001: A Space Oddity"!!!!! I've only seen it, like, 10 times!!!!! My excuse is that I got the film title mixed up with the classic David Bowie song, "Space Oddity". Or else I'm just an idiot!!!!

Had an e-mail from a fan who's coming to my "Lord Loss" event at Edinburgh. He was worried -- I've only been talking about my "Saga of Darren Shan" event here, and he wondered if that meant the Saturday event was going to be crap!!!! No way, Jose!!!!! ALL of my events are brilliant!!!  :-)   Seriously, the Saturday event is in the bigger tent, with 3 or 4 times the capacity of the children's tent, so I'm going to be putting a hell of a lot of work into that one too!!! The only reason I've mentioned the Friday event so much is that it's different type of event to the one I normally do.

If any of you haven't bought tickets yet, but intend to, and are dithering over which event to come to, let me put it this way -- you should come to both!!!! But, if you can only make one, the Friday event will provide more of an insight into the way I work, and will show you how "The Saga of Darren Shan" came into being, the hurdles I faced, how it all happened. It won't be as funny or as frightening as my typical type of event, but it should provide plenty to entertain. The Saturday event will be more like what I usually do, and I'll be using it as a test-run for my October tour of the States, trying out some new material. I'll be reading 2 or 3 extracts from later books in the "Demonata" series (maybe even a few more extracts, if they're short) -- and I've only ever read out one of those in public before. So most of the extracts will be getting a world exclusive airing in Edinburgh!!!!

At both events, I'll be answering questions from members in the audience, like I always do -- that's normally the most enjoyable part for me!! And I'll be rounding off each event with the song I mentioned in an earlier Blog entry ... So, if you have delicate ears, you might want to slip away a few minutes before the end!! And, of course, I'll be signing afterwards. I'll happily sign every one of my books that fans bring along, but I'll be limiting dedications to 2 per person on Friday, and 1 per person on Saturday. (A dedication is when I write "To .......", then write a short message, then sign and date the book.) So, if you bring all 13 of my books on Friday, I'll dedicate 2 of them and sign the rest. On Saturday, I'll only be able to dedicate one, but I'll still sign all the others. (N.B. on Ebay, signed books are worth far more than dedicated books -- no collector wants a book that has some other fan's name in it!!!!)

By the way, tickets for Saturday's events are now almost sold out, and you can't order them online any more!! So if you're interested in getting tickets to either event, you'll need to ring the box office at this number: 0131 624 5050  (0044131 624 5050 if you're outside the UK)