 She started crafting. She made pendants out of felt that she actually sold in Bloomingdale's for a brief period of time. And maybe she would have continued on that path, but she developed an allergy to the fabric glue she was using. So she had to stop making the pendants. And it was only then that she started writing. And like many creative parents, she was reading her kids' stories at night in bed and thinking to herself, I could do this. This seems like something I could try.