She studied at the University of Otago, after which she began working as an editor and publisher, co-founding Longacre Press in the city in 1994.
[1] Many of Boock's novels and television scripts are aimed primarily at the young adult market, and have been since her earliest writing.
She began scriptwriting more in earnest in 2000, becoming one of four writers working on Gibson Group series The Strip.
[2] In 2007, Boock and Donna Malane inaugurated Lippy Pictures, a production company which was responsible for the children's time-travel drama Time Trackers and tele-movie Until Proven Innocent.
[2] Boock was the 1994 Writer in Residence at the Dunedin College of Education and in 1999, was named as the University of Otago's Burns Fellow.