Derek Landy has kept us well entertained before and since the record-breaking success of Skulduggery Pleasant (2009) - Demon Road, Desolation, American Monsters, to name a few. Understandably, you ...

A dozen years ago, Derek Landy made a splash by selling his first manuscript, Skulduggery Pleasant, to HarperCollins and HarperChildren’s UK in a three-book deal worth $1.8 million. The books were ...

To celebrate the last book in the Skulduggery series, Derek Landy held an immersive theatre event, Theatre of Shadows, live on the streets of Dublin – site member ...

The paradox of book reviews is that it's hard to know whether you'd be interested in a book unless you know something about it first; but quite often a review tells you more than you'd want to know so ...

True-life horror: You write a series with 13 award-winning bestsellers and number-14 is eagerly awaited and pre-ordered by fans worldwide and then... it accidentally gets released online. The ...

I know I've quoted this before, but, for children not mad keen on the forest of fantasy tales out there, nothing says it better: "I find it difficult to take much interest in a man whose father was a ...

THE DOOR burst open and Eddie shrieked and whirled and fell backwards over the stupidly low coffee table his wife had insisted on buying despite Eddie’s tendency to shriek and fall backwards over ...

CREATING Skulduggery Pleasant has not only changed the life of the man who made it, but the readers who have found themselves represented on the pages. This year marks 15 years since the first book ...

I never really considered there being a time in my life when I would be running through the streets of Dublin, screaming at the top of my lungs whilst being chased by bad guys from my favourite book ...

Derek Landy is excited. Next week, he’s going to see two of his favourite 80s films on the big screen for the first time. His publisher Harper Collins is hosting screenings of Joe Dante’s Gremlins and ...