The year 2010 will see quite a number of Mary Balogh books, both old and new.
First there is A Matter of Class, a January, 2010 book though it has been out, I understand, since before Christmas. It is a long novella but is being published alone in a hardcover volume by Vanguard Press with a gorgeous cover. It will eventually be out in both trade paperback and mass market editions, I believe, but I have no date on those yet.
Next will be Dell's two-in-one edition of Dark Angel and Lord Carew's Bride at the end of February. These are books that were first published in the early 1990s and are the first two books in a series. Two of the other books in the same series, The Famous Heroine and The Plumed Bonnet, are due out together at the end of January, 2011. The final book of the series, A Christmas Bride, will be out with Christmas Beau in September, 2011.
The remaining two books of the Huxtable quintet, Seducing an Angel and A Secret Affair, are scheduled for the end of April and the end of May, 2010, respectively, Seducing an Angel, Stephen's story, in paperback and A Secret Affair, Constantine's story, in hardcover. Watch for the latter book in paperback in the spring of 2011.
In October, 2010, there will be a Harlequin book, Bespelling Jane. It is an anthology of paranormal novellas by Susan Krinard, Colleen Gleason, Janet Mullany, and me. All the novellas are based on various Jane Austen novels. My novella "Almost Persuaded" is based on Persuasion. It is a reincarnation story with nothing to do with vampires or werewolves!
In November, 2010, Dell will be publishing A Christmas Promise, another old novel of mine.
I am currently working on a prequel to my two Dell novels, More Than a Mistress and No Man's Mistress. The brother heroes of those two books had a married sister. Angeline and her husband, the Earl of Heyward, seemed a mismatched pair in those books with Angeline being a flamboyant chatterbox and Heyward a quiet, serious man. Angeline's brothers always referred to him as a "dry old stick." However, they both agreed that the two were besotted with each other. I had no intention of writing their story, but a number of readers have asked for it, and I have wondered about those two myself! I am beginning to find out how they ended up together!
After this I will be writing a book for Gwen, Lady Muir (One Night for Love, A Summer to Remember and a few other books).
But first I'll be writing a new novella. Some of you may remember It Happened One Night, an anthology in which Candice Hern, Jacquie D'Alessandro, Stephanie Laurens, and I wrote novellas all with basically the same plot. We are going to repeat the experiment with another plot. This plot idea, however, will be provided by a reader. Avon is going to hold a competition in February, 2010, and the winner will see his/her plot challenge taken up by the four of us. Anyone interested in entering the competition should keep an eye on the Avon web site. I will let everyone on my mailing list know when it begins.
For those of you anxious to see my old books back on the bookshelves, there are more on the way. Two two-in-ones, A Promise of Spring/The Temporary Wife and The Counterfeit Betrothal/the Notorious Rake, are already scheduled.
Happy reading in 2010!