Marian has been featured on television stations such as Fox, NBC, CBS, and in print and online magazines such as USA Today, Black Enterprise, Voyage Atlanta, Shoutout Atlanta, and Southern Writers Magazine, just to name a few. Her book The Caged Butterfly, reached No. #8, on Amazon’s Hot New Releases chart and No. #1 in an Amazon Women's Fiction category. The Caged Butterfly also received the USA Best Book Fiction Award for African-American Fiction. Other accolades include receiving the AALBC Bestseller Award, a recommended read, and feature on USA Today, a #2 on the Amazon Bestseller list ranking, and a Top 100 Most Popular Authors in Literary Fiction ranking on Amazon. In short, Marian knows how to self-publish a book.