THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

         "When I’m writing a book, I work off of an outline and set word count goals for myself so I always know where I’m supposed to be." --Margo Candela             Q:   Tell us about yourself. Where are you from? What is it like to grow up in "Hollywood"? What is your "day job"? I was born and raised in Northeast Los Angeles and come from a family of seven, not including the two dogs we grew up with. We first lived in Lincoln Heights, where I remember watching Richard Dreyfuss shoot scenes for a movie on the corner. In the 80s, we moved to Cypress Park, where they filmed "Secretary" and "Chasing Amy", a block down, just to name two of the projects that took over the neighborhood. Even with such exposure, the idea of Hollywood was not a constant in our lives. My parents expected us to finish high school and get jobs. I was lucky and stubborn enough to continue onto Glendale Community College...

CONGRATULATIONS TO AUTHOR MARGO CANDELA!!  Her novel, GOOD-BYE TO ALL THAT, has just been selected by Los Angeles Magazine as the "Best Beach Read" for it's Best of L.A . issue, on newsstands through August. It's the ONLY BOOK to have garnered that distinction this year. Los Angeles magazine called GOOD-BYE TO ALL THAT "witty," "breezy" and "tantalizing." The book is available at Borders and Barnes & Noble stores nationwide, and at Amazon.com. To learn more about Margo, please visit her website at:   http://www.margocandela.com/ For The Latina Book Club's own Summer Reading List, click here . Happy Summer.  Happy Reading. READ LATINO.  --mcf

This is the national book club launched by author Alisa Valdes.  The ELLA Book Club has 500+ registered members coast to coast.  The Club even has a Facebook page.  Their January selection is Margo Candela's MORE THAN THIS. Visit the ELLA Book Club website for a Skype video interview with Margo:  http://www.ellabookclub.com/ SUMMARY:   After living in Paris for a year, Evelyn Reed-Sinclair returns home to San Francisco nursing a broken heart. An heiress to a coffee and tea empire, she has no desire to participate in the highsociety, party-hopping lifestyle in which her younger sister revels. And when a mix-up leads to a job at a struggling dot com company, Evelyn keeps mum about her true identity and joins the nine-to-five workforce.              Meanwhile, Alexander Velasquez, an ambitious lawyer from a working-class San Francisco neighborhood, signs on with a pos...