 After writing "Little Divas", Boles was compared by critics to Judy Blume and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.Sybil Wilkes, of the nationally syndicated "Tom Joyner Morning Show", twice featured "Little Divas" as a recommended book for youth.Boles has appeared as a panelist at The Baltimore Book Festival, The Miami Book Fair International, The Indiana Black Expo, The Southern Kentucky Book Festival, and alongside Eric Jerome Dickey at Camp Mariah.