“I have romanticized you to the point where the knives you pressed into my skin began to look like cupids arrows.”
– E.J. Wood
There is a close relationship between women and fiction. According to cognitive psychologists, women are more empathic than men and can process more emotions. They are famous for reading fiction and also for writing fiction. Women fiction writers and women fiction books have formed a significant place in literature. Marian L. Thomas is one women fiction writer who is celebrated for her women fiction books.
Women read more fiction than men because their ability to empathize makes the genre more appealing. It has been found that women generate 80% of fiction sales. The tendency to read is also more common in women. For instance, they are members of book clubs and libraries. Still, they can also be seen attending literary classes and listening to audiobooks. In bookshop events and literary festivals also, women form a majority part of the audience.
Thomas is one women fiction writer known for her extraordinary work in fiction. She has written almost six women fiction books. Having been featured on various television stations, including NBC, Fox, CBS, Thomas has acquired great success in writing women fiction books. In addition to being featured on television stations, Thomas has also appeared in print and online magazines, including Wednesday Journal, USA Today, AJC, West Suburban Living, Southern Writers Magazine, Shoutout Atlanta, Voyage Atlanta, and even Black Enterprise. Her most recent novel, The Caged Butterfly, has made her receive USA’s Best Book Fiction Award for African American Fiction.
Thomas’s work in fiction illustrates how women are more inclined to propagate the reading of fiction novels. Reading and writing fiction come naturally to women, as can be observed by Thomas’s success through her writing. Thomas has achieved the USA Best Book Finalist Award (twice), the AALBC Bestseller Award, and the Sankofa Literary Society Award. In addition, she has ranked among the top 100 Most Popular Authors in Literary Fiction on Amazon for her book “I Believe In Butterflies.”
Fiction has always been known to help people grow as individuals. It has always enabled people to discover parts of themselves that they never even knew existed. Fiction helps people delve into their emotions and decipher them. Most importantly, the genre has the potential to influence people’s demeanor. When women writers write women fiction books, they do so to make readers get to adopt this mindset.
The themes in women fiction books, such as Thomas has written, revolve around family, community, and home. Women writers create fiction that usually focuses on characters overcoming real-life challenges such as cancer, divorce, betrayal, and job loss. Marian L. Thomas’s The Caged Butterfly is an ideal read for anyone looking forward to reading a great women fiction book. According to D. Donovan, a Reviewer at Midwest Book Review, The Caged Butterfly is “Powerfully evocative and winding in its story of uncertain connections and alienation.” The book is bound to “delight women’s fiction readers who seek strong multicultural stories of enlightenment, and family connections honed through generations of interaction and self-examination.” Because of these reasons, the book has led Marian L Thomas to win the USA BEST BOOK AWARD.
