Finished my latest edit on Monday of what will hopefully be my next D B Shan book after my City trilogy (click here for more info on all things D B Shan). I didn't need to make an awful lot of changes this time -- my previous draft seems to have taken care of all the major issue, thank heavens! It's always a nice feeling when you sit down with a story that you've been away from for a while, to discover you did a pretty damn good job of it last time!!!

But there's no room in the ever-busy universe of the Shan Man for resting on my laurels or clapping my own back!! No sooner had I finished off a draft of one book, than I slipped quickly into my latest edit of another this morning -- this time it's a Darren Shan book, the first of the four-book series which starts coming out in the UK in October 2010. I think that a lot of you already know by now what the series is going to be about, but I haven't announced it officially yet -- I'll be doing that at the Edinburgh Festival in August -- so for those of you who are in the dark, I'm afraid that's where you'll have to remain for the next couple of months!!! Suffice it to say, I think these four books are going to make a lot of Shansters very, VERY happy when they start to come out... especially if your favourite colour is orange.......