NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literature – Mama’s Boy 2015
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature – Say Amen, Again 2012
NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literature – The Secret She Kept 2013
Honoree-Arkansas Black Hall of Fame
Houston Library Author of the Year (2020)
Houston’s Top Ten Authors (2015)
Rolling Out Magazine
Top 25 Woman of Houston
Romantic Times Book of the Year 2007 (I Know I’ve Been Changed)
Library Journal Best Christian Fiction 2004 (Let the Church Say Amen)
National Association of Black Journalists Creative Spirit Award
YMCA Minority Achiever
Houston Top Professional
Houston Chronicle’s Woman on the Move
Houston Association of Black Journalists Regional Awards
Press Club of Houston Awards for Outstanding Reporting
Texas Top Author