The Latina Book Club is celebrating Valentine’s and Galentine’s Days all week long. Each day we will feature a new Latina romance author for your reading pleasure. Enjoy and remember to Read Latino Lit and Read Romance. DID YOU KNOW?! Romance novels make up 34% of the U.S. fiction market according to a Nielsen BookScan/ PubTrack Digital survey in 2015. . MEET ALEXIS DARIA. Alexis Daria is Puerto Rican and a contemporary romance author, artist, and native New Yorker. Alexis has a BFA in Computer Arts, but her most fulfilling job was as a group facilitator for a women’s empowerment community, where she coached other women in following their creative dreams. And now she is making her dreams come true. Her Dance Off Series was inspired by Dancing with the Stars . Book 1, TAKE THE LEAD, was a 2017 Golden Heart® finalist and was named one of the Best Romance Novels of 2017 by The Washington Post and ...