She is the wife of American television writer Rob LaZebnik, with whom she has four children.
She is also the sister of television writer Nell Scovell and of children's book writer Alice Scovell Coleman.
[1] Her novels include Same as It Never Was, Knitting Under the Influence, and The Smart One and the Pretty One, the second of which defunct magazine Romantic Times said "turned into a burdensome cliche".
[2] She has co-written two books on autism with Dr. Lynn Kern Koegel of the Koegel Autism Research Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
In the second, Growing up on the Spectrum (2009), the everyday issues of adolescents with autism are addressed.