With The Cloven (paperback, Kindle), writer B. Catling is concluding the trilogy he began with 2015’s The Vorrh and continued with last year’s The Erstwhile. Though in conducting the following email interview with him, he notes that while Alan Moore [Watchman, Jerusalem] declared the first book to be “Easily the current century’s first landmark work of fantasy,” that’s not the genre Catling would use to describe this saga.
When B Catling’s fantasy novel The Vorrh was published in 2015, it came with a blurb from none other than Watchman and Jerusalem author Alan Moore, who declared it, “Easily the current century’s first landmark work of fantasy.” He wasn’t kidding. Having just release The Erstwhile (paperback, digital) the second book in this series, I spoke to B Catling about its origins, where this series is going, and the impact Moore and his quote had on this second novel.