I don’t really know how long it’s been now, but it feels like forever that Priscilla Bettis and I connected and it has been fantastic seeing her put out awesome work. She’s also been a devoted follower of my website/blog and even though my WordPress site is being a jerk – she still takes the time read and comment on almost every single post I have – even when I can’t sometimes see them and/or reply to them!

I’m so excited to have Priscilla here today as she celebrates her newest release!

Welcome Priscilla!

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?

Priscilla: The hubster and I get up at 4:50 in the morning. In the summer I jog right away before it’s hot, and it gets dang hot in Texas. Then I write afterwards. In the winter I write in the morning’s dark silence before the sun comes up, and then I go out for a jog.

Exercise is an important part of my creative process. Blood gets a-flowing through my gray matter which helps me think more clearly. I gotta keep my eye out for rattlesnakes and wild boar (seriously), but I let my mind wander through my WIP, and I often come up with new associations and fun plot twists.

I’m a slow writer, but I’m a careful writer, too, and try to make each paragraph the best I can get it. So 300 words may be all I put down for the day. My record is 10,000 in one day, but afterwards my brain was as fried as a Twinkie at the state fair.

Having said that, yes, I do know how to buckle down when needed to meet a deadline with daily word count goals and all that. Plus I’m also working on drafting faster. I’m interested to see what I can do in 2023!

Steve: You end up at an estate sale and discover an unpublished manuscript from an author you love. Do you keep it just for yourself or do you share it with the world?

Priscilla: I totally keep it for myself. I figure if it were the author’s intended final version, it would have already gone to the publisher. And since the kids apparently don’t want it…

Steve: Tell me about your newest release (novel/story/poem/novella) and why someone should read it!

Priscilla: Dog Meat is a literary, dystopian, horror novella about one man’s struggle against the dog meat trade. Needless to say, Dog Meat is disturbing. It is not for delicate readers. I just hope my story honors the dogs caught in this real-life nightmare and salutes the heroes working to save the dogs.

Why should people read it? If I can raise people’s awareness of the dog meat trade, maybe they’ll be willing to join the fight to change government policies and rescue dogs destined for slaughter.

Steve: Bonus Question! And you loved this previous one so much, I made sure to ask you it! Did you have a favorite wrestler as a kid?

Priscilla: Mr. T all the way! He’s still my favorite because he’s the ideal role model, always striving to improve himself. He went from actor to wrestler to boxer (to actor again) to writer to flashy celeb speaker to Aaron’s Furniture spokesmodel to humble humanitarian (who forever shed his gold in the wake of Katrina) to WWE Hall-of-Famer. What will he do next?!

That is a great choice!

Thank you again so much Priscilla, for your support and for coming and doing this!

To find more of her work, check the links!

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Priscilla-Bettis/e/B08R97Z63M

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PriscillaBettis

Website: https://priscillabettisauthor.com/