DEREK LANDY POSTS KINGDOM OF THE WICKED BACK COVER

Derek Landy has posted the back cover art to the seventh instalment to the Skulduggery Pleasant series, Kingdom of the Wicked.

The drawing, by artist Tom Percival can be viewed below:

READ CHAPTER ONE OF NEW BOOK, THE BUTTERFLY AND THE WOLF

You can now read the first chapter of the upcoming Skulduggery Pleasant book, Kindom of the Wicked.

Entitled The Butterfly and the Wolf, you can read it here.
You can also see Derek's Australian tour dates here, and UK and Irish dates here.

DEREK LANDY POSTS DETAILS OF WORLD TOUR

Derek Landy has took to his blog to announce details of his upcoming world tour. This post will be updated when more details are available.
Read the dates below:

30 August - 3 September:

• Dublin
• Bray
• Drogheda
• Cork

7 September - 9 September:

• London
• Bournemouth
• Southampton

13 September - 15 September

• London
• Birmingham
• Liverpool

New Zealand rough dates:
(from the 8th to the 11th of August)

• Auckland
• Wellington
• Christchurch

Australia rough dates:
(from the 12th to the 21st of August)

• Brisbane
• Sydney
• Melbourne
• Adelaide
• Perth

Derek will also be visiting the Dalkey Book Festival, 17th of June at 12pm.

BOOK SEVEN DETAILS: COVER AND TITLE RELEASED

Rejoice Skulduggery fans! Derek Landy has released details for the seventh instalment of the Skulduggery Pleasant series on his blog, Derek Landy Blogs Under Duress. View the details after the jump.

BUY WORLD BOOK DAY RELEASE: THE END OF THE WORLD NOW

Skulduggery fans can now purchase the new Pleasant novella, The End of the World, World Book Day edition here.

SHORT STORY "TRICK OR TREAT" AVAILABLE NOW

Skulduggery Pleasant author Derek Landy has posted a short story entitled "Trick Or Treat" on his blog. The Halloween micro-story can be read here.

NEW BOOK COVERS, COMPETITION FOR AMERICAN FANS

Speaking from his blog, Derek Landy has announced that the first three Skulduggery books have been re-released in eBook format for American fans, with new covers, and the first can be downloaded for free from iTunes and Barnes & Noble during October only. Read more.

There is also a competition with the winner winning a short story written for them, featuring Tanith Low, which will be released on Halloween for all later.

Covers after the jump.

DEATH BRINGER RELEASED TODAY

The 6th Skulduggery Pleasant, Death Bringer, was released today!
It previously had a limited festival release at the Edinburgh Book Festival.

Buy the book at WHSmith or Amazon!

Additionally, you can purchase the short Skulduggery stories "The Lost Art of World Domination and Gold, Babies and the Brothers Muldoon" on the iBooks or Kindle stores now, for free. Read more here.

NEW DEATH BRINGER VIDEO POSTED ONLINE

A new video detailing the festival release of Death Bringer has been posted on Amazon.com.

You can view the video here.

DEATH BRINGER FESTIVAL RELEASE, INFORMATION REVALED

Derek Landy's new Skulduggery Pleasant book Death Bringer was today released for a limited time at the Edinburgh Book Festival.

Derek has also revealed some details on the book (beware for potential spoilers):

DEREK LANDY ANNOUNCES THE DEATH BRINGER TOUR

Derek Landy has announced the details to his upcoming Death Bringer book tour.
Read the list of stops after the jump.

DEATH BRINGER TO BE RELEASED EARLY AT EDINBURGH FESTIVAL

Derek Landy has confirmed on his blog that the sixth installment to the Skulduggery Pleasant series will be released on the 15th of August at the Edinburgh Book Festival.

The book will only be available for four hours, whilst other readers will have to wait until the first of September to read. Read more here.

PRE-ORDER DEATH BRINGER NOW

You can now pre-order Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer at this link.
You can also read the first chapter online here.

DEATH BRINGER BOOK COVER REVEALED

Derek Landy has unveiled the cover for the upcoming Skulduggery book "Death Bringer".

See the cover after the jump!

SPOILER ALERT: NEW BOOK 6 TITLE, SYNOPSIS AND COVER APPEAR ONLINE

According to HarperCollins, the upcoming Skulduggery Pleasant book will be titled Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer. A rough book cover and synopsis have appeared online.

DEREK LANDY DISCUSSES VALKYRIE'S AGE

Derek Landy has discussed Valkyrie Cain's age in a new blog post.

"Somewhere around the third book, I stopped concentrating on what time of year each book was set at, and what age Valkyrie was in each one. Basically, I made it so that, by the time Mortal Coil came around, there was no WAY she could have been sixteen. It just didn’t make sense."

He has also confirmed that Valkyrie's birthday is in August.

REDESIGNED SKULDUGGERY BACK COVERS RELEASED

The back covers for the newly redesigned Skulduggery paperbacks have been released.

Each cover features Valkyrie Cain, and will be released in April.

Derek Landy has stated that each redesigned book will feature a brand new short story to accompany it.

SPOILER ALERT: DEREK LANDY REVEALS INFORMATION ON BOOK SIX

Speaking on his blog, Derek Landy has confirmed that Valkrie's new sibling will be ...

Read more after the jump.

DEREK LANDY TALKS ABOUT BOOK SIX

Derek Landy has took to his blog to talk about various details on the upcoming Skulduggery book.
On the post, he talks about the publishing process, and a "HUGE fight at the end".

Read more after the jump.

DEREK LANDY HINTS AT NEW CHARACTERS

Derek Landy has took to his blog to announce the arrival of the new book six characters "The Jitter Girls".

"I’m not going to tell you much about them, other than that they are currently giving Skulduggery and Valkyrie quite a hard time. I haven’t a clue how they’re going to be defeated, either. The way I’m writing right now, it looks like the Jitter Girls are going to kill our heroes and skip off into the darkness. Which, you know, would be bad for the rest of the book."

You can read the blog post here.