Her first short story "Stowaway" inspired by her work as a flight attendant was published in 1956 in Extension Magazine. She was paid $100 for it. Stowaway had been rejected 40 times for about six years.
Persuaded by her agent, she wrote her first novel, a biography of George Washinghton, "Aspire to the Heavens" in 1968. It did not do well either. She went ahead and wrote her first suspense novel "Where are the children?" In 1975 and it became an immediate hit.
Her publishing firm Simon and Schuster, paid her 3,000 dollars at the time and then later $100,000 for paperback rights.
Her second novel sold $1.5 million
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