Her first adventures into the world of literature was writing romance. Apparently it was too smutty to be published anywhere eighty miles around any church.

[Hah, okay, not really, but it's true her sister did fail at first because her books were too racy to publish]

After that she poured her whimsy into writing books for children, about a hedgehog with chicken legs. Apparently they're good -- I haven't checked her work.