Five years into her marriage, she published her first book, Heidelberg Kiss, a chronicle of the minutiae of her married life in a foreign land that surprised readers with its crisp prose. The book went on to sell in excess of 70,000 copies, and, in 2003, won the Mark Twain Travel Journalism Award.
婚後 5 年出版了第 1 本著作《海德堡之吻》，紀錄自己在異國婚姻的點滴趣事，清新筆風令人驚豔，累計銷出 7 萬本以上，並在 2003 年獲得德國「馬克吐溫旅遊文學獎」。