My literary biography of Alan Moore, three years in the making, is now available for pre-order from all good bookshops, including Amazon UK and Amazon US. Books-a-Million, Barnes and Noble, Powells, Book Depository, Waterstones.

It will be published on the 7 November 2013 by Aurum Press, and it charts the work and career of the graphic novelist, writer and magician Alan Moore. It’s around 165,000 words – over 400 pages.

As I was writing the book, I interviewed all sorts of people involved with Moore’s career: including Dez Skinn, Bernie Jaye, David Lloyd, Dave Gibbons, Don Murphy … and Alan Moore, who offered the following endorsement: