Amazon Clint Adams : no time for fear Buy.com Libreriauniversitaria.it Category:  Vision/Metaphysical Publisher: Credo Italia ISBN-10:  0976837544 Type: Fiction Pages: 300 Copyright: August 01, 2006 ISBN-13: 9780976837541 MY WATCH DOESN'T TELL TIME is the third and final novel in the fear-eliminating series for teens, preceded by FEAR AIN'T ALL THAT and DON'T BE AFRAID OF HEAVEN. “What if time runs out?” is the question that makes 14-year old Miguel Estes sweat almost every night. Miguel’s certain of three things though: he’s here to learn lessons, he lives with a fatal form of the skin-blistering disease E.B., and the clock never stops ticking. In his quest to learn everything from the challenging life he’s been given, Miguel discovers who’s responsible for time being over.     Excerpt chapter 18: sample excerpt “Are you sure there’s enough time?” I asked Aunt Shirley. “Well, what time is it exactly?” “12:30. We’ve got to be there by two.” “I know. There’s always plenty of time, Miguel. After all, it never runs out…since it never existed in the first place. Remember?” The first time Aunt Shirley had ever told me that was when I was in the hospital at Stanford about to have another one of my main surgeries. I’ll never forget that conversation. That’s when she’d given me one of the most meaningful gifts of my life. My memory of our talk back then also gave me another reason to do something special, to pass along something that helped me keep alive in a similar way like Aunt Shirley had done for me. “I think I want to give that watch you’d given me to Alex today.” “Your watch that doesn’t tell time?” “Yeah, the one that reminds me I’ll be around forever.”

Maybe Time Isn't Real After All, 28 Aug 2006
"My Watch Doesn’t Tell Time is an excellent book and by reading it, I learned a few things that made me think a lot. One thing I learned was that friends are like family and they are always there for you in good times and bad times. Something that helped me learn this was that even though some of the main characters friends were in heaven, they still came to help him in his dreams. It was interesting the way the main character, Miguel went to different places and learned something from each place. The way the places were described made me feel like I was in those places with Miguel. Something that surprised me was that Miguel always met lots of people who taught him something that sometimes changed his life. The ending of the story was dramatic but it was well planned out and there were some hints that told you how it was going to end."

--Giulia Calcagno, seventh-grade student (Copenhagen International School)

Life lessons, destiny and more, June 22, 2006
"Clint dares to write about the biggest questions in life; the meaning of life, fear, what happens when you die, why people die, and timing. He writes about being different, coping with illness and weakness, having close friends, from the perspective of Miguel, a 13 year old that through the course of 3 novels, turns 14 and 15. Miguel is a mixed-race kid with divorced parents from San Francisco with a skin disease that poses a threat to his life and makes him look different than everybody else. He gradually learns to defeat his own fear."

-- Eva Liljendahl, CPCC, Inspiration for Excellence, Editor of Fiction and Non-fiction serving writers world wide (www.inspirationforexcellence.com)