THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

      It’s Valentine’s Week and here at The Latina Book Club we believe in celebrating love and romance every day of the year with family, friends and lovers.   Our celebration can be as simple as hugging a niece and nephew to giving chocolate covered cherries to our favorite aunt to dinner for two in bed to reading a romance novel. And we love romance novels!  We’ve been reading them since high school and they continue to be our favorites because of the guaranteed happy ending.  And, it certainly helps that romances come in all categories -- suspense, paranormal, historical, science fiction, etc. – so the thrill is never gone. The Latina Book Club is happy to welcome award-winning romance writer Mia Sosa as our Valentine’s Day guest blogger , who shares with us her thoughts on romance and why February 14 is just another day in her house. And for your reading pleasure, we’d like to share some of the romances on our shelves by ...

   The Latina Book Club welcomes author Dee Tenorio .   She writes in numerous categories, is a perfectionist and loves any and all kinds of books.     A woman after our own heart!   Welcome, Dee. Q:   You write paranormal mysteries, contemporaries, romantic comedies and erotica.  Which category is your favorite?  How do you decide which category to write next? Do you ever get confused? A:   I wish I could say I had a specific favorite. I tend to love the one I'm working on at the time.   It's just the way my mind handles its creativity. If I finish a dark paranormal, I need to lighten up a bit and I write a rom com. Empty one well, switch to another so the one I just used can refill. (That might make sense only in my head, but I hope you know what I mean.) I don't really get confused because I kind of program myself to certain tones using music and imagery. When I have to write two different books at the same...