Works by
Mari SanGiovanni
(Writer)

Liddy-Jean, Marketing Queen (2008 release) -- Winner Second-Annual Bywater Prize for Fiction
Liddy-Jean Carpenter has a plan. She is going to write a book. Liddy-Jean Carpenter also has Down syndrome. Working in the marketing department of a large corporation completing basic tasks, no one takes any notice when she starts making a detailed list of what is wrong with the way the company operates.

Enlisting the aid of her coworker Rose and friend Jenny, Liddy-Jean writes an advice book for corporate America called Wand-Wavers & Worker Bees. Rose worries what will happen if Liddy-Jean's clever book is published and fears that it will be The Devil Wears Nada if the book actually becomes a hit and people find out that the guru of all things wrong with corporate America is really a young woman with Down syndrome. Meanwhile, Liddy-Jean is cooking up another plan-a plan to get Rose away from her dangerous boyfriend.

The way Liddy-Jean sees it, love is love, and she becomes convinced that Rose belongs with Jenny and that she must hatch the perfect scheme to fix both their lives (and maybe a few others along the way).

Greetings from Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer (2007) -- Nominated 2007 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction;  Nominated 2007 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
Marie Santora has always known her family is a little crazy, but when she inherits her grandmother's estate, they now have a million more reasons to act nuts. It soon becomes clear that the amount of money Marie needs to live comfortably will be decided by her family--if they don't get enough of her money, she won't live comfortably.

Marie plans her escape. She'll give her family a parting gift and then move to Hollywood to chase her dream of writing film scripts. But will millions at stake, it will take more than a free vacation to Jamaica to get the erratic Santora family to toe the line. The timing couldn't be worse when her hot pursuit changes from screenplay to foreplay. Now she has to stop her loud-mouthed clan from spilling her secrets as fast as they're swilling Jamaican rum.

Climb aboard this hilarious rollercoaster ride where Marie is wishing "out" was the new "in", and where every lounge chair is a hot seat when the Santora family ventures this close to the equator. The island of Jamaica just may not be big enough...