![]() ![]() ![]() He puts in a full day at the keyboard, and says that the first draft of one of his books usually takes him about three or four week to complete. It is all quite a change for the former cable TV company worker who quit to pursue writing fulltime writer three years ago.ĭarren does all his writing on a very basic PC in the corner of his bedroom in his parent's house in the village of Palliskenry, about 12 miles from Limerick city. ``While I was writing the first the idea of the series grew and now most of the stories exist in draft form, their plots mapped out and ready to be polished into final form over the next decade or so.'' Lucrative publishing contracts with Harper Collins in Britain and Ireland and Little Brown in the US have made him the latest member of the exclusive club of Irish millionaire popular novelists.Ĭirque du Freak has also excited the interest of one of Hollywood's major film studios, and last week after months of negotiation, Warner Brothers signed a seven-figure deal for the film rights. Harry Potter's creator JK Rowling certainly thinks he's onto a winner, describing Cirque du Freak as a compelling book with a plot so full of twists that it leaves the reader hungry for more.īut these two children's vampire stories are only the first dipping of O'Shaughnessy's literary toe in the water of an ambitious long-term publishing project, a series of 24 or 25 books about vampires. ![]()
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