a spell of words

Alan Moore talks to The Bookseller on the occasion of the upcoming release of his new fantasy novel, The Great When, the first book in the Long London quintet. Interview conducted by Katie Fraser and posted on the site the 30th of August.

You can read the complete piece HERE.

Moore is “making more of an effort to conjure this spell of words to involve the readers, to make them feel like they are viscerally there, like these things are actually happening to them in a vicarious sense”. But he expects the same effort in return: “I’m depending upon readers to do at least part of the work, because I think that the more work they do, the more they will enjoy it.”

Read the complete piece HERE.