Her work includes picture books, easy readers, middle grade fiction, biographies, and nonfiction.
[1] Her experiences growing up in rural Virginia, especially those as a student at Robert Frost Junior High School, provided ideas for her books' plots and characters.
After that she scribbled stories in her spare time, usually casting herself as the star who had all the fun and solved all the mysteries, inventing the adventures that were in short supply in real life.
[2][3] Lacking the finances to go to college, Ransom wrote magazine articles in her spare time while she earned a living as a secretary.
[3] The next big step in Ransom's career came when her publisher called with the chance to write a four-hundred-page historical novel for teens.
[7] Ransom has a monthly column in Bookology Magazine, titled "Big Green Pocketbook".
Her work includes picture books, easy readers, middle grade fiction, biographies, and nonfiction.