Heide: So, what’s this book all about?
Iain: The end of the world.
Heide: Oh, I’d have thought that in these trying times, people would want something light-hearted and fun.
Iain: And, of course, this is very much a bit of light-hearted fun. Yes, it’s about Armageddon and features Clovenhoof and the Archangel Michael making an unholy mess of it but it’s obviously a very silly book as well.
Heide: Right. Because isn’t there already a rather famous comedy fantasy novel about the end of the world in which an angel and devil, who’ve known each other since the beginning of time, try to stop the pointless destruction of the world? Like, really famous. Like there was an Amazon TV series adaptation with David Tennant and Michael Sheen.
Iain: Does Michael Sheen play the angel or the devil?
Heide: The angel.
Oh. Because I think he would make a rather good Clovenhoof. Particularly when he’s got that wild beard, he looks like he could be a mad disgruntled demon in exile. He could play Satan with his natural Welsh accent.
Iain: Clovenhoof as a Welshman? That… could work.
Heide: Anyway, Alpacalypse. Are there going to be lots of alpacas in it?
Iain: Obviously. Keen Clovenhoof reader, Andy Angel, responded to our Facebook request for book title suggestions and gave us this title so we’re obviously going to have to put some alpacas in it.
Heide: I’m not sure
that’s how authors are meant to come up with titles or how they are meant to decide what the book’s about.
Iain: Works for us! If our mystical and idiosyncratic methods have worked for the last ten years then maybe we shouldn’t question it.
Heide: Hmmm. Should we request book titles from our readers and generate books to fit them?
