BECKONING SHORE hit slot #40 on Ingram's top 50 Best Selling Romance list and was chosen in the top 5 Best Americana Historicals by Romantic Times, earning a 4 & 1/2 star review.

SMALL BLESSINGS made the top ten Historicals voted by Barbour's book club readers.

SO CLOSE TO THE FLAME won National Pen Women's Book/Fiction Award, after winning first place in the Texas Pen Women's Category.

THE GENTLE SEASON received a 4 & 1/2 star review from Romantic Times.

DeWanna won the Jodi Thomas Award for Career Achievement from Romance Writers of the Texas Panhandle. 

DeWanna was named a lifetime member of both Panhandle Professional Writers and Romance Writers of the Texas Panhandle.