Author's Notes --

[D.A.]

Standard disclaimer -- I wrote this book.

TIME WATCH has been my most popular book. That's not saying a whole lot, really, given that I rarely sell more than three copies of any of my 15 or so book in any given month. But over the nearly ten years TIME WATCH has been available online, it's probably sold over a hundred copies. This makes it my most popular title, although I suspect WARREN'S WORLD may be giving it a run for its money these days.

TIME WATCH, like most of my books, features a central protagonist who bears a lot of resemblance to what I was like back when I wrote the book, which would have been in my mid to late 30s. As with most of my books, it started with a daydream -- what if I had a wrist watch that would let me travel through time? Well, the first thing I'd do would be go get myself a bunch of new mint Silver Age superhero comics right off the spinner racks in the early 1960s.

But then, what if the people who lost the time watch came after it? What would happen then?

I enjoyed writing TIME WATCH. I used a combination of different narrative viewpoints -- first person for the central storyline, but I switched around to third person to show events my narrator, Jim, couldn't possibly know about. I occasionally threw in other first person viewpoints as well.

What most surprised me about TIME WATCH was that about halfway through it turns into a romance.

I like to think it's a pretty good book.