About D.J.J. Watson
From an early age, D.J.J. Watson got sucked into epic fantasy worlds fraught with danger, quests, survival, and otherworldly beings. His imaginative mind – known all too well by his long-suffering friends and family – constantly sought to live these experiences through movies and video games, only to exhaust their catalogues in a few short years.
When he finally turned to the birthplace of these worlds (books), he soon encountered a problem:
He couldn't finish most of them.
Many were long, bloated with needless narrative, and featured so many POVs, it was easier to neck several shots of vodka than to remember the character names.
This bothered him immensely.
There he was, yearning for the same magic and escapism fantasy offered him in other forms, but couldn't find his "in" anywhere. Not in bookstores. Not on Amazon. Not in all the popular reader forums and groups.
Nowhere.
And so, for more years than he'd like to count, he retreated from the genre and conceded that he might be the problem. It was only during the 2020 lockdowns in a cockroach-ridden Cypriot apartment – after his partner, Laura, couldn't stomach rewatching The Lord of the Rings for the 113th time – that Watson finally set out to do something about it.
He figured if he struggled with this issue, there had to be others out there struggling with it, too.
And so, The Divided Region was born.
Beyond his mission to bring more short, bingeable, fast-paced epic fantasy novels into the world, Watson is a father of two rambunctious boys, affectionately known as Stinker One and Stinker Two.
When he's not battling sleep deprivation or changing dirty nappies, he also plays Overlord & Saviour of the Legion (his author newsletter), where he connects with his most ardent fans, known as Legionnaires, and serves up whimsical musings and a steady stream of egregious puns.
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