Hi there. I'm Milou. It's re-introduce yourself month here
on Sweet Romance Reads, so I'm here to share a bit about me and hope you'll all
share a bit about you so we can get to know each other.
Who I am
Here's the official bio:
Milou
Koenings is an award-winning USA Today bestselling author who writes romance
because, like chocolate, stories with happy endings bring joy to the world and
so make it a better place.
Yeah, yeah, I know it doesn't tell you much besides the fact
I eat too much chocolate. What can I tell you — I'm shy.
Five Funky Facts about Me
1. Lets start with the question I'm asked all the time. That name.
It's Meeloo, accent on the Mee. Not My-lou. Although I'm so used to the latter by now that I
honestly don't care either way.
The only other Milou I know is also
Belgian, which is exactly what someone else recently said to me, too. So it
seems I have a uniquely Belgian name. Technically, it's a contraction: Myriam
Louise. But my parents were overly fond of Tintin, the cartoon character, and
his dog's name is Milou. So you can see I might have some complicated feelings
about canines, being named for one...
For all you dog-lovers out there, rest
assured. I do like dogs - but only the really big ones. Great Danes are my
favorite. Cats? I love them black.
2. I've lived for at least a year in 12 different countries and
spent time in about 30 others.
3. Number 2 probably explains why I am passionately in love with
small towns where everyone has known each other forever.
4. My favorite bird? Owls. I have a huge collection of them
gathering dust all over my house. I keep saying I'm going to box them away, but
each one reminds me of a place I visited, or a particular special day. So they
stay.
5. I always need to have a dozen projects going on at the same
time. So I have multiple works in progress at any given time and I still have a
day job, several in fact. But whatever it is I do, I do it from home, because
that's where my heart is.
6. As you see, math is not my forte...
Something You'd Never Guess About Me
Both my mother and my granny, my father's mother, were
ladies-in-waiting. Yes, to real
queens. One of these days, I'm going to spill
the beans and write a royal romance — if they let me, which hasn't happened yet.
Why I write sweet romance
Because, as a Harvard study discovered, investing in our relationships
with lovers, family, friends and community is what keeps us happy and
healthier. (We needed a 75-year-long study to tell us this?)
So as a writer, I can't think of anything better than to
write about love and kindness.
My sweet romances — in chronological order
I don't write my Green Pines series in chronological order.
They come into the world as the characters demand their own stories. They books feature recurring characters, but each one is a stand along story. However, if you want to read them in the order the
stories happened in the universe of Green Pines, this is how they go:
A former Marine. A single mom. Two broken people.
A twist of fate. An overbooked flight. Christmas in Africa will flip her life upside down.
Covington Black knows what he wants. He wants to believe Ella’s the one, and yet it seems like falling for her is the one thing he shouldn’t have done.
He’s an ex-con, she’s a socialite.
He saves her life, she could make or break his; will the gift of love come in time?
And don’t forget to sign up for the Sweet Romance Reads newsletter. Scroll down the right side of our blog and enter your email address under Newsletter Signup.
Now it's your turn. Come join us in the Facebook Sweet Romance Reads Cafe and let's get to know each other!
What a fun post! It's wonderful to learn more about you, thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteLoved hearing more about you, Milou. Great post.
ReplyDeleteLove your post. Can't wait till you do a royal love story! Don't want to rush you but as a loyal reader I would love to see your insight there.
ReplyDeleteMilou, thanks for sharing. We were in Belgium last summer and saw a big painting of Tintin in Brussels. I love your book covers.
ReplyDeleteMilou,
ReplyDeleteSuch a fun and interesting post. Thanks for sharing!
So fun to learn more about you, Milou! That royal romance would be such an awesome book!
ReplyDelete