Between 1989 and 2003, she worked for a variety of advertising agencies as a copywriter. She began to write novels after her youngest sister died of breast cancer. Her young-adult novel How I Live Now was published in 2004, in the same week she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Between 1989 and 2003, she worked for multiple advertising agencies as a copywriter. After her youngest sister died from breast cancer, she started writing novels. Her young-adult novel How I Live Now was published in 2004, at the same time she learned of her own breast cancer.