T.E. Watson

T. E. Watson is an award winning children’s author, columnist in the US and Canada, speaker, philanthropist and last and certainly not least a Scotsman. His career has spanned the many aspects of the publishing industry.Having started by accident from the efforts of some 35 6th graders (he was a teacher), his writings have taken readers to worlds they can revisit again and again. From his most recent travels back to Scotland in The Man Who Spoke With Cats and his best selling 
Glen Robbie: A Scottish Fairy Tale, to the popular educational and historical pioneer series Going West, his readers keep coming back for more, wondering to which magical land he is going to take them next.
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He is the author of some 145 stories including 5 new audio book productions and 12 new books being completed for children.. he says he has slowed a bit!With over 45 years in the writing world doing everything from reporting to writing for magazines and technical manuals, to political essays for national, as well as environmental issues. He has also penned many guides and teaching curriculums for schools throughout the country. He has written adult works, and even horror, but his first love will always be the children’s genre.His research and studies in Literature of the U.K, with a focus on Children’s Writers, with a more focused study of Robert Louis Stevenson earned T.E. the very prestigious FSA Fellowship from the Royal National Museum in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2003.T.E Watson is passionate about writing and continues to develop that passion. “You must have compassion as well as passion to help those who would also like to write excellent work as it should be.”T.E.Watson has in his past been a President of The Northern California Publishers and Authors, is a member of the SCBWI Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, member of the California Writers Club, as well as many organizations overseas. He is very active in his Scottish organization community and is determined to never retire from writing for children.With more and more coming he is presently working on his final rewrites of two chapter book trilogies for children, and being recently commissioned to write two “how to” books on writing and marketing. His pet project is a book for authors Presenting Successful School Visits. Having become known as the Guru of School Presentations his reputation for motivating and making reading and writing exciting has earned him great acclaim all over America.