[2] The anthology Taming The Alpha hit the New York Times[3] and USA Today[4] in 2014 and included her novel Stirring Up Trouble.
In 2015, Pillow received the Virginia Romance Writers HOLT Medallion Award of Merit for outstanding literary fiction for the book Love Potions.
[5] Pillow is also involved in various film and historical documentary projects with her filmmaker husband[6] and played a refugee extra in Z Nation[7] on SyFy that was released in 2016.
[8] Dragon Prince received praise in 2019 on SyFy as part of a science fiction and fantasy romance recommendation list.
[9] In 2021, Pillow received a grant[10] from the Mississippi Arts Commission in support of her Order of Magic paranormal women's fiction series.