The Indie Express: LGBTQ Feature: Liddy-Jean Marketing Queen and the Matchmaking Scheme by Mari SanGiovanni #fiction #lgbtq #romance #bookreview #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours

Fiction / LGBTQ / Romance

Publication Date: June 11, 2024

Publisher: Bywater Books

Novelist and filmmaker Mari SanGiovanni introduces readers to the irrepressible Liddy-Jean Carpenter, a matchmaker with special talents who will charm readers with her wit, wisdom, and sensibilities in this warm, enchanting love-is-love office romance.

Liddy-Jean Carpenter has learning disabilities. But she also has a surprisingly genius plan.

While she spends her days doing minor office tasks with nobody paying attention, she sees how badly the wand-waving big boss treats the Marketing Department worker bees. So, she takes lots of notes for a business book to teach bosses to be better.

While compiling pages of bad behavior notes, she finds she likes office-mate Rose and Rose’s new friend Jenny. But she doesn’t like Rose’s creepy boyfriend. So how can she save Rose?

Liddy-Jean knows with certainty that love is love, and she concludes that Rose should be with Jenny, bosses should do better, and everybody needs the services of Liddy-Jean, Marketing Queen.

Review

What a unique tale this was. I think that Mari SanGiovanni has such a fresh and fun voice and she seriously made me think about aspects of the world and the people in it that I hadn't on this level before.

The characters feel very real, and I think he did an expert job at capturing the emotions of the characters and evoking them in the reader.

I loved the way this story was laid out. It wasn't one note, there were so many layers to it.

About the Author

MARI SANGIOVANNI is a novelist, filmmaker, screenplay writer, and owner of Love Is Love Productions. She is the author of the award-winning novels, Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer, Camptown Ladies, and 80% Done With Straight Girls, and she wrote and directed the award-winning short film, The Sibling Rule. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, she splits her time between Boston, MA, and Coventry, RI.

Contact Links

Instagram: @SanGiovanniMari

Purchase Link

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