In her twenties, Sally married and wrote articles for a Seattle community newspaper, The Capitol Hill Times, about college life, baking her first apple pie, and the joy of owning cats. By her thirties, she had three children and had left the beaches of Kailua, Hawaii for the mountains of Denver, Colorado and part-ownership of a German delicatessen. Sally is active in Mystery Writers of America and Romance Writers of America and is frequently a seminar speaker.