Here are some additional authors and books to add to the Book Watch list.  Looks like I will have a lot of new authors and series to look forward to for 2010 and 2011.  You can check out my previous Books to Watch posts here.

Synopsis (Publishers Marketplace):

1. Joan Frances Turner’s DUST, formerly known as Dead of Night, about an undead girl whose existence is irrevocably altered as she faces a plague that is wiping out both humans and zombies alike and must deal with the harrowing return of the living family that she had given up hope of ever seeing again.

2. Lia Habel’s DEARLY, DEPARTED, a maximalist, post-apocalyptic, neo-Victorian steampunk zombie novel in which a girl, whose blood is impervious to the “Z-virus,” searches for her missing dad, is kidnapped by (good) zombies, falls improbably in love with a rather sweet zombie boy, and sets out to save the world from a zombie plague beyond imagining, in a two-book deal.

3. Suzanne Johnson’s ROYAL STREET, in which a female wizard guards the border between Hurricane Katrina-beset NOLA and the Beyond, facing down a voodoo god and locating her missing mentor, and RIVER ROAD, in which she solves a series of cross-species murders as the River Styx bleeds into the Mississippi, and deals with a shapeshifting partner, undead Jean Lafitte, a newbie werewolf boyfriend, and a neighbor with a sinister agenda, for publication in 2010.

4. J.R. Ward’s three new novels in the Black Dagger Brotherhood.

5. Heather Dixon’s debut, an untitled teen re-imagining of the fairy tale “The Twelve Dancing Princesses,” the eldest princess must rescue her sisters from an ancient dark magic underlying their home, while also protecting her own heart from the magnetic, fearsome Keeper at its center, for publication Winter 2011, in a two-book deal.

6. Tessa Gratton’s debut BLOOD MAGIC, about two teens who meet in a cemetery and plunge into a dangerous world of dark magic, first love, and the deadly secrets that hide in blood, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2011.

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