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to each one!

1 Tina Donahue

2 Susan Vaughn

3 Diane Saxon

4 Kryssie Fortune

5 Carmen Stefanescu

Honorable mention: Kris
Bock, Jose Riviera

Top Chatters for the Month

Because the person who gets the most comments in a month is not always the
person who

gets the most page views per month, I instituted the Top Chatter Award.
This is the award for the person who receives the most comments. To win, a guest
must have five or more comments (not counting the guest author’s). There can be
up to three winners.

This month’s winner’s are:

1 Sabrina York

2 Carmen Stefanescu

3 Susan Vaughn

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This quick
interview includes info about the author, and introduces the story.

Sweet Christmas Kisses 2

About the Author

Milou Koenings writes romance because,
like chocolate, stories with happy endings bring joy to the world and so make
it a better place.

She’s lived all over the world,
working as an intellectual property lawyer and freelance travel and technology
writer, but loves to stay home with her family more than anything.

Interview with Milou Koenings

Why
did you write this book?

Sweet romance and
holidays just seem to go together so well! This is a group project by 19 authors
from Sweet Romance Reads. We banded together to create a boxed set of holiday
novellas. It was a fun way to get into
the Christmas spirit as early as possible. My contribution, Sweet Blizzard, is
another installment in my Green Pines Romance series. The story spun itself
after I came across my grandmother’s holiday spice cookie recipe.

What
is your favorite genre to read?

Romance, but as long as
a book has a good love story in it, I’ll read any genre – from contemporary
romance, to historicals or political thrillers.

Who
is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?

That’s a tough one. Hermione Granger or Lisbeth Salander? Neither
of them are romantic heroines! Sticking
to romantic heroines, I’ll vote for the little known Jean Paget from A Town
Like Alice by Nevil Shute. She’s strong, tough, kind – and based on the
war-time experiences of a group of real-life heroines that included my great-aunt.

What
are you working on at the moment, and what will we see from you in coming
months?

I’m working on another a
Green Pines Romance, a prequel to my novel Reclaiming Home, as well on as a
brand new series.

Please
tell us about your latest book.

Sweet Christmas Kisses 2
is a boxed set to welcome in the holiday season with 19 heartwarming and
wholesome novellas from New York Times, USA Today, national bestselling, and
award-winning authors.

Our novellas take you
from the Smoky Mountains to Florida’s sun-drenched beaches, from the Italian
Alps to Paris, France, from the Midwest to a quirky little town in Arizona.

The Sweet Christmas
Kisses 2 bundle features all-new, stand-alone stories that are sure to make you
laugh, sometimes bring tears to your eyes, but always put you in the Christmas
spirit. Foreword by New York Times bestselling author,
RaeAnne Thayne.

About the Book

Title Sweet Christmas
Kisses 2

Genre Sweet Romance

Authors Mona Risk, Beate
Boeker, Melinda Curtis, Denise Devine, Raine English, Aileen Fish, Patricia
Forsythe, Grace Greene, Roxanne Rustand, Magdalena Scott, Kristin Wallace,
Christine Bush, Lois Greiman, Shanna Hatfield, Susan R. Hughes, Julie Jarnagin,
Shaleen Kapil, Ciara Knight, Milou Koenings

Book heat level (based
on movie ratings): G/PG