3Q’s – Regina Watts Consorts with the darkness!
I’m always intrigued by those writers who seemingly exist completely behind pennames and pseudonyms. Case in point – today’s guest. Regina Watts is known to write brutally violent, extreme horror. While she readily admits in her answers that she writes under a variety of pennames and as such also releases books in varying genres. Color me intrigued.
Please welcome, Regina!
Steve: What does your writing time look like? Do you try and write at the same time each day? Do you have a word count you attempt to hit?
Regina: Because I do everything by myself, my process is divided into phases. When I’m writing, I write every day for as long as I can and always target a 10,000 word day. My recent average has been 7,000 words a day and I’m comfortable with that; my bare minimum to feel okay is 5,000 a day. When my output starts to average below 4,000 a day it’s a sign I should take a break for a few days or even work on another project. I’ve also become very finicky about my vibe, so if one thing throws me off in the morning or is looming over me I’ll take the whole day off. If I’m struggling to write a section, I force myself to not write that day. “Don’t try,” as Bukowski said. As for the actual schedule, I have a lot of stuff to do in the morning, so I–for about 7 years now–get up at 4:20am to get my ducks in a row, work out, etc., and make sure I can sit at the keyboard by 7:30. But if I can get there around 6:30, that’s going to be a 10k day for sure. Once I’m at the keyboard and feeling good about my day, there ain’t nothing to it…I just put my fingers on the keys and type.
Steve: If you started a series and for some reason had to have another author finish it, who would you choose?
Regina: I would rather the hypothetical series die with me than be finished by someone else in this hypothetical scenario. Collaboration in professional prose just isn’t for me, even posthumously. Having said that publicly, maybe I’ll finally be seduced into it by someone…but I doubt it.
Steve: Tell me about your newest release (novel/story/poem/novella) and why someone should read it!
Regina: As my Regina Watts penname has become more horror-focused, I know some of my old readership is missing the more erotic aspects of the horrotica I used to write. Those readers will be happy to know that CONSORT, the first in my new dark romance series under the pen name Ada Dart, is a very fun, sexy book set in a universe plagued by mysterious episodes called Rift Events. These recurring tears in reality not only permit monsters to roam into our world, but have pronounced effects on the people exposed to them–like our protagonist, Thecla, who is caught between her love for the powerful, sadistic master of her home territory and the intense, mysterious attraction she feels for his monstrous footman. It’s a slow burning, fun reverse harem in a unique universe with an interesting plot, lots of spice, and a second book wrapping production soon! I recommend it to fans of my work as well as anybody who likes spicy dark romance.
Steve: Bonus Question! If they made a movie about your life, what actor or actress would you suggest they get to play you?
Regina: I imagine the movie about me will be very much like ADAPTATION, with someone playing Regina Watts and somebody else playing the actual flesh and blood human being behind the curtain…but as to who would play us, I haven’t the foggiest! That’s for the casting director to work out lol
Intriguing! Awesome! Thank you so much, Regina!
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