Shirley has won multiple awards, including:

• Booksellers Best Award (winner, The Virgin’s Proposal, finalist: The Bachelor’s Dare, The Marine’s Kiss, Around the Bend)
• HOLT Medallion (winner: Rescued by Mr. Right, finalist: The Bachelor Preferred Pastry)
• Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence (winner: The Bachelor Preferred Pastry, finalist: Really Something)
• More than Magic (winner: Twelve Days, finalist: The Bachelor Preferred Pastry, Rescued by Mr. Right)
• Multiple Reviewers’ Choice awards from CataNetwork.com, Multiple prizes from Golden Quill awards (Really Something, Snowbound Bride, Marry-Me Christmas, etc.) 
• Two-Time Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice nominee
• YASLA Top Ten Teen Read Nominee (The Well)