Her novels include: Hick, Bury This, Anatomy of a Misfit, The Fall of Butterflies, This is Not a Ghost Story, Liberty, Henry and Eva and The Castle on the Cliff, Henry and Eva and the Famous People Ghosts, Creeping Beauty and the upcoming literary fiction novels A Terrible Place for Murders and They Were Like Wolves.
She has lived ever since on the east side in Echo Park, Silver Lake and Los Feliz.
[6] In winter 2015, Portes' spy series, Liberty, was bought in a three-book deal by HarperCollins.
During the pandemic, Portes' standalone novel This is Not a Ghost Story was released to critical acclaim and immediately optioned by Stone River Pictures.
The post-pandemic consisted of Portes writing her next two upcoming literary fiction novels: A Terrible Place for Murders and They Were Like Wolves.