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Derek Landy
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I ALWAYS SAID JACOB ELORDI HAS GREAT TASTE IN BOOKS!
November 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Christmas is approaching, and what do you get for the Skulduggery reader in YOUR life?

(Or what do you get YOURSELF, if no one else is gonna?)

A card! A stocking!

MAY THE MERRY BELLS OF CHRISTMAS CLANG!

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November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
As a Halloween treat, BEHOLD THREE NEW COVERS! Brought to you by the pen of Matt Taylor and released on January 1, YOUR PUNY MINDS SHALL DRIBBLE OUT OF YOUR EARHOLES!!
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
In which case
October 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Picked up the new @joe-hill.bsky.social today, shown here beside Maeve Fly (by CJ Leede) for size comparison…!

Can’t wait to get to it, but first I have to finish Maeve and Black Sheep (by Rachel Harrison) and Coffin Moon (by @keithrosson.bsky.social) which I am reading simultaneously.
October 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
UK readers- here’s a quick and easy Halloween competition to maybe win some stuff! Sign up for the newsletter to be entered, or just enter if you’ve already signed up! Over 18s (because of data stuff!)

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October 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
To celebrate this most momentous of days, the world has conspired to release Skulduggery Pleasant: A Small Matter of Impending Catastrophe for your reading pleasure.

Just another way that I make your life bearable.
October 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The final episode of A Small Matter of Impending Catastrophe is out today!

Thank you EVERYONE for listening- we passed 100,000 impressions on Spotify (whatever that means) a few days ago so my publisher is delighted with how it’s gone…!
October 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
You can tell Halloween and Christmas are coming up because suddenly we have a load of new releases in the shop…!

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October 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The only problem with having Matt Taylor's extraordinary book covers in this calendar is that it makes you wish there were a lot more months in a year...
October 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I am loving these little polls we’re running after every episode of ASMOIC…
October 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The results of our latest poll!

I’m actually surprised by this one. When I was 20, I liked SOME songs by Prince, but I never gave him much thought. Then, because a girl I fancied LOVED him, I said yeah, big fan… and within weeks I WAS a big fan.

But, like, that’s Prince, so..
October 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Books!

For some reason I only ever read the first arc of this X-Men run, despite it coming from a favourite writer and artist - and I only read a few issues of Strikeforce Morituri as a 12 yr old… but the nihilistic vibe of it stayed with me.

Now to find out how it ends…
October 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Oh by the way…

It’s Friday! That means a new episode has dropped!

Tune in for important conversations about plot! Clues! And ugly babies!
September 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Some behind the scenes stuff we recorded for A Small Matter of Impending Catastrophe…
September 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Passed by a jumble sale of sorts and just had to stop in… FINALLY! A book of euphemisms!
September 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
September 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Getting a wonderfully warm and enthusiastic response to the first episode of A Small Matter of Impending Catastrophe, available on Spotify, Audible, and Amazon Music (we’re working on Apple but there’s new software and it’s WEIRD)- so as a little bonus, this is where we recorded!
September 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
World, meet Obi-Wan
September 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I love Fridays, because Fridays are when I get to the bookshops- and even though I have a book of my own to finish, Alexis Henderson and @StephenKing (by way of a MURDER of authors riffing on The Stand) are beckoning…
August 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
It's Friday, and you know what THAT means: brand new Skulduggery posters from the pen of Matt Taylor!

Revel in the splendour! Adorn your walls with the beauty! Luxuriate in the coolness!

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August 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Changes to the text of this one includes stuff like changing the occasional “Crenga” to “Crengarrion”, changing the colour of the ties the Fourth Yrs wear, and tiny dialogue alterations.
July 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
And here we have the last book of the trilogy to get a reissue on Sept 25- again with glorious Matt Taylor artwork.
July 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Changes to this text include a further cleaning up of the timeline - not only how much time has passed between books, but also how long things have lasted in the books themselves.
July 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Just look at this artwork by Matt Taylor- the first full body shot of Val in her necronaut suit.

This reissue is out 25 September!
July 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM