by Chris Watson | Aug 5, 2025 | Authors, Media
It’s weird when someone you’ve known seemingly for ages, spoken with moderately regularly, and run into face-to-face from time to time is gone. Yesterday, my colleagues and I received word that Jim Fullilove, the longtime managing editor of Marine Electronics Journal,...
by Chris Watson | Jan 15, 2023 | Best Practices, Events, The Writing Process
As the publishing industry has expanded through innovative platforms and an explosion of indie authors, so too has the technology to support them. Whether you’re drafting a manuscript, self-publishing your work, designing a marketing plan, leveraging social media for...
by Chris Watson | Jan 15, 2022 | Original Writing
I’ve been thinking a lot about time ever since I received the call at 5:55 PM on a Wednesday. How much time it took me to put on my jacket. To sprint from my office, down the hall, and out to my car. To drive across the bridge to Jamestown to be with my stepmother and...
by Chris Watson | Oct 24, 2021 | The Writing Process
Quote of the Day: “If you’re only going to write when you’re inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you will never be a novelist — because you’re going to have to make your word count today, and those words aren’t going to wait for you, whether you’re inspired...
by Chris Watson | Mar 26, 2021 | Authors
RIP Beverly Cleary. I adored her books as a child and now, as a parent, I’ve loved them all over again as I read them to my daughter and then watched her become a huge fan of reading as a result. I think she can recite Ramona the Pest word for word by now. I also love...
