I just updated my Book Watch list.  My 2010 and 2011 lists are getting pretty long.  You can view my previous Books to Watch posts here.

Synopsis (Publishers Marketplace):

1. Sherrilyn Kenyon’s next three books continuing her No. 1 NYT bestselling LEAGUE series, taking place in the Ichidian Universe in which corrupt assassination politics dominate.

2. Ari Marmell’s THE GOBLIN CORPS, the story of an elite squad of goblins in a Dark Lord’s army and their battle against the assembled forces of good — who may themselves not be quite as “good” as they’re cracked up to be — pitched as INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS meets THE LORD OF THE RINGS.

3. Flynn Meaney’s debut BLOODTHIRSTY, a humorous coming-of-age tale set in our paranormal-obsessed world starring a super-skinny, super-moody, super-pale teenage guy who decides to become a vampire; or at least fake it…to get a date, in a two-book deal, for publication in Fall 2010.

4. NIGHT VILLA author Carol Goodman’s THE DEMON LOVER, the first novel in a sophisticated paranormal series featuring a Mythology professor who teaches at an unconventional college with a mystical faculty.

5. Karin Tabke’s dark, erotic paranormal series, pitched as Sons of Anarchy meets Rise of the Lycans, in a three-book deal.

6. NYT bestselling author of Wake and Fade Lisa McMann’s DEAD TO YOU, about a teenage boy who was abducted nine years ago and is now returning to his family, and THE UNWANTEDS, about kids who are exiled from their homeland when they display signs of creativity to a hidden world where they are trained to use their abilities and hone their magical skills, in a four-book deal.

7. Martyn Bedford’s debut FLIP, about a teenager who wakes up inside another boy’s body and faces a life-or-death quest to return to his true self or be trapped forever in the wrong existence, in a two-book deal, for publication in Fall 2010.

8. Cynthia Leitich Smith’s graphic novel adaptation of Eternal, which features angels, shape-shifters, demons, ghosts, vampires, and some nifty humans, in a two-book deal.

9. Nick James’s SKYSHIP ACADEMY, when a fifteen-year-old slacker discovers that he has the power to control Pearls – fragments of space debris that are a dying Earth’s most important energy source – the government’s forces work to capture him, in a two-book deal, for publication in 2011.

10. Myra McEntire’s debut HOURGLASS, a timeslip romance in which a girl who sees ghosts meets a boy who knows the truth about what her visions really are, and he alone can unlock the secrets of her past, in a two-book deal.

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