Her involvement in the local Junior League newsletter in the mid-1930s eventually led to her contributing fictional sketches to the national Junior League publication.
Her stories about the married Cugat couple, a young bank executive and his wife, led to interest by Houghton Mifflin, and ten sketches complete with illustrations were published in October 1940 as Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage.
starring Ray Milland and Betty Field as the Cugats.
[4] Rorick published a follow-up collection of Cugat stories, Outside Eden, in November 1945.
Since Arnaz could not pull off the role of a midwestern banker, the show was reworked into what became I Love Lucy.