YA fantasy novelist. Awards include:
2016 Eric Hoffer Book Award Winner (category Young Adult)
2016 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List
2016 New Horizon Award Finalist
2015 IAN Book of the Year Awards Finalist
THE BOOKS
Books written or edited by David Harten Watson
Extinction Notice
Tales of a Warming Earth
A Cli-Fi Anthology of Global Warming Fiction
Published March 23, 2022
Climate change! Insane leaders! Pandemics! Melting icecaps! Eco-terrorists! Monsters! Aliens! Robots! What could possibly go wrong for the humans of the future?
Extinction Notice: Tales of a Warming Earth is a climate fiction (cli-fi) anthology of 41 stories by a diverse group of talented authors from nine nations on four continents around the world. The stories will thrill, chill, shock, scare, infuriate, enlighten, and worry you — some will make you laugh or inspire you to take action, but all of them are entertaining and thought-provoking. Not all of the cli-fi works in this anthology are science fiction; others range from horror to romance, in story, song, and poetic formats. Ultimately, Extinction Notice will open the eyes of readers of all ages to the catastrophic dangers of runaway global warming or anthropogenic climate change.
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Profits from this anthology will be donated to environmental charities.
A Readers' Favorite 5-Star Book
Magic Teacher's Son
Book 1 of the Magicians Gold Series
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Magic Teacher's Son is a story of betrayal, forgiveness, trust, and treason in a magical world at war. While armies clash in distant battles pitting Magicians against Sorcerers, the actions of an ordinary boy, his classmates, and his friends threaten the loss of their kingdom, but are also its only true hope for survival.
When sixteen-year-old Pran sneaks out of his house one night to join other teens experimenting with sorcery, it sets into motion a chain of events that lead to betrayal, an attempt on his life, first love, friendship with a most unusual spy, treason, and the imminent conquest of his kingdom.
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2016 Eric Hoffer Book Award Winner (HM in category YA)
2016 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Grand Prize Short List
2016 New Horizon Award Finalist
2015 IAN Book of the Year Awards Finalist
Fortress of Gold
Book 2 of the Magicians Gold Series
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Enemy sorcerers destroyed the gold that powers white magic on Rados,
leaving the Kingdom of Eldor defenseless. A prophecy said the only hope of restoring the gold was for sixteen-year-old Pran to travel to the mythical world called Earth with three companions: Jelal, a spy whose accident with an eternal youth spell at age twelve cursed him to remain that age forever; Pran’s classmate Samir, who nearly killed Pran last week (but that was before they discovered they’re cousins); and Vitina, the exotic enchantress Pran fell in love with at first sight.
They arrive on Earth in New Jersey, a foul-smelling place infested with millions of horseless carriages. The prophecy leads them to the family destined to be their native guides, but then their plans go awry. Although they brought diamonds to trade (knowing Earthlings consider those useless rocks valuable), they learn it's hard to trade diamonds the size of eggs for gold. The FBI believes they’re international jewel thieves or diamond smugglers, Samir is captured, and the others must rescue him.
Pran begins questioning whether his love for Vitina is real or, as she believes, a magical side effect. Adding to his confusion, Pran is torn between his feelings for Vitina and a new, totally unexpected love interest—another boy. The only way to get enough gold to save their kingdom is to pull off a daring daytime heist of the most heavily-guarded building on Earth! And Jelal has secret orders to steal more from Earth than just gold . . .
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A Readers' Favorite 5-Star book
Millennium Bomber
A Story of Digital Revenge
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Kevin is a senior programmer-analyst with years of excellent performance. One year before Kevin’s retirement, his boss shortchanges him with a puny $1 raise. Knowing his pension will be based on his final average salary, Kevin complains to his boss, who tells him that because of his age, the company considers him “obsolete” and not worth spending money on.
Furious at such blatant age discrimination, Kevin vows revenge. It’s December 1998, and Kevin comes up with a plan to re-introduce the “millennium bug” into programs that were already fixed by Y2K consultants, creating a “millennium bomb” that will destroy the company that discriminated against him when the year 2000 rolls around.