{"id":1442,"date":"2009-12-01T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2009-12-01T01:00:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T06:00:29","slug":"march-top-pick-first-comes-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/01\/march-top-pick-first-comes-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"March Top Pick ~ First Comes Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Season readers chose <span style=\"color: #808000;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marybalogh.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Balogh&#8217;s<\/a> <\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>First Comes Marriage<\/strong><\/span> as their Top Pick in March. Congrats Mary! And if you haven&#8217;t gotten around to getting the first in Mary&#8217;s Huxtable Quintet series, I&#8217;ll be giving away a copy of the book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">~*~*~<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marybalogh.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1443\" title=\"marybalogh\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/marybalogh.jpg?resize=175%2C218\" alt=\"marybalogh\" width=\"175\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a>I was addicted to the novels of Georgette Heyer, whom I had discovered only a few years before while working my way through a Grade XI reading list during a maternity leave. I cannot adequately explain how enchanted I was, how transported into a world I had experienced before only through Jane Austen. I knew that if ever I wrote, it was that romantic world of Regency England that I wanted to recreate.<\/p>\n<p>And so <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>A Masked Deception<\/strong><\/span> got written in longhand at the kitchen table while home and family functioned around me after the supper dishes were done. Finally, at the end of 1983, three months after I had started it, the manuscript was ready to be submitted. But where? And how? I knew nothing about the publishing world and nothing about any writers&#8217; organizations. To say I was a greenhorn would be to flatter me. I picked out the publisher I thought did the best job of Regencies, found a Canadian address inside the cover of one of the Signet books, and sent my manuscript there with a brief covering letter. The Mississauga address was a mere distribution centre! But incredibly someone there read the manuscript, liked, it, wrote to tell me so, and sent it on to New York. Two weeks later I had a call from Hilary Ross, offering me a two-book contract. Sometimes it pays not to have a clue what one is doing!<\/p>\n<p>And so the dream became reality. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>A Masked Deception<\/strong><\/span> was published in 1985 and I won the Romantic Times Award for best new Regency writer that year. Since then there have been numerous Regencies, historicals, and novellas, and more awards too.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px;\"><em>*Mary in her own words<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: large;\"><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1445\" title=\"firstcomesmarriage2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/firstcomesmarriage2.jpg?resize=200%2C328\" alt=\"firstcomesmarriage2\" width=\"200\" height=\"328\" \/>First Comes Marriage<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #800000;\">Author: Mary Balogh<br \/>\nPublisher: Dell<br \/>\nPub. Date: February 24, 2009<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-0440244226<br \/>\n416 pages<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em>Elliott Wallace, Viscount Lyngate, has just acquired unwilling guardianship of Stephen Huxtable, the new young Earl of Merton. If he were to marry Stephen&#8217;s eldest sister, he would have the eligible wife he needs and she would be able to look after launching her younger sisters into society. It would be a comfortable arrangement all around. However, Vanessa, the middle sister, thinks otherwise. Margaret loves another man and has a secret agreement with him. And so Vanessa steps up as the sacrificial offering.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comment to enter to win a copy of this March Top Pick!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And don&#8217;t forget to vote for your November Top Pick now! 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