Derek asked Alan Moore:

I loved Voice of the Fire. Does Jerusalem have a release date yet?

Alan Moore Well, I’m pleased to inform you that the actual writing of the first draft was completed around a year ago on September 7th, 2014. For the past year I’ve been working with Donna Bond, the very capable editor that I dragged in to oversee the enormous manuscript after the death of my original chosen editor, Steve Moore. Donna has been making suggested changes and edits over the thirty-five chapters...bless her, she even made some useful points about the frankly unreadable Lucia Joyce chapter...and I can report that I finished integrating the edits on the last chapter just six days ago on October 22nd. This almost-complete draft is with the publishers, and I believe some of the foreign editions have already begun the lengthy work of translation. It has also been passed over to my two trusted macro-managers (to see if there are any big structural or plot flaws in a work of this scale and with this number of characters), the author and prison writer Ali Fruish, and author and counter-cultural historian John Higgs. Meanwhile, I am shortly to recommence my drawing work on the front cover – which I began before I commenced work on writing the actual book, and then put away because it struck me as a stupid way to go about things – and I’m hoping that the whole thing will be out next year. Re-reading the book as I integrated Donna’s edits (seriously, the woman is brilliant: she even picked up on my serial misuse of the word ‘careen’), I can say that I am deliriously pleased with it and, at least from my own point of view, can say that this is the best thing that I have ever written, or in all likelihood will ever write. I thank everybody for their considerable patience over the ten years that I’ve been assembling this mechanism, and sincerely hope they’ll agree it was worth the wait.

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