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Joan Frances Turner

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http://www.joanfrancesturner.com/

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Urban Fantasy, Young Adult

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Joan Frances Turner is the author of Dust, forthcoming from Ace Books on September 7, 2010. Dust is a story of the undead from their own point of view, as they battle time, decay, the loved ones they left behind, encroaching humanity and each other. Or, think Watership Down with zombies instead of rabbits. She is currently working on a sequel, tentatively titled Frail, from the all-important human perspective.

Joan was born in Rhode Island and grew up in the Calumet Region of northwest Indiana, which fellow Region Rat Jean Shepherd famously said “clings precariously to the underbody of Chicago like a barnacle clings to the rotting hulk of a tramp steamer.” Like Mr. Shepherd, she aspires someday to have a local community center named after he ...more

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Some news of good import: Thanks to a friendly Twitter follower (nobody ever tells the writer these things directly), I have discovered that Frail is now available for (US) pre-order at Amazon. The definite for-real release date: October 4, 2011. So soon! So far away! (ETA: The paperback edition of Dust drops on the same date. Faraway, so close, et cetera!) Eventually I plan to have the first chap

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Joan Frances Turner’s books

Average rating: 3.33 · 1,942 ratings · 332 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dust (Dust, #1) 3.25 avg rating — 1,397 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who by Deborah Stanish (Goodreads Author) (Editor), L.M. Myles (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Aliette de Bodard (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.97 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frail (Dust, #2) 3.03 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Companion Piece: Women Celebrate the Humans, Aliens and Tin Dogs of Doctor Who by L.M. Myles (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Emma Nichols (Goodreads Author), Julia duMais 3.96 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grave (The Resurgam Trilogy #3) 3.42 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Story Behind the Book: Volume 3 by Kristijan Meic (Editor), Ivana Steiner (Editor), Steven Erikson (Goodreads Author) 3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Suspense Magazine, September 2010 by D.P. Lyle, Shane Gericke, Alan Orloff (Goodreads Author) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dust by Joan Frances Turner (October 04,2011) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Resurgam Trilogy (3 books)
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“Isn't it wonderful when people do that, when you put all your faith in their being selfish and self -centered and not giving a damn and it turns out, all that time, you were wrong?”
― Joan Frances Turner, Dust

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“Be nice to her,” I muttered under my breath. “She’s my sister; she got sick. She lost her kid. For all I know, she may have eaten her.”
― Joan Frances Turner, Dust

tags: zombies

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“So am I dead? How many kinds of living and dead and living dead and dead living had I been in just these few months, these few days, after the stasis of plain old human living and dying? I deserved some kind of existential medal.”
― Joan Frances Turner, Dust

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