Darren Shan: 'People reading dystopian books have been better prepared for what has happened'

The multi-million selling author has gone the self-publishing route for the latest of his Archibald Lox books 
Darren Shan: 'People reading dystopian books have been better prepared for what has happened'

Darren Shan is in the process of publishing his latest trio of Archibald Lox books. Picture: Kieran Clancy

His books have sold 30 million copies worldwide and been translated into 32 languages but when Darren Shan tried to get his most recent series published, he was taken aback to find that traditional publishers weren’t interested. 

The Limerick author, real name Darren O’Shaughnessy, found he had to be creative in more ways than one, and turned to self-publishing in order to get the Archibald Lox series into readers’ hands.

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