Like the previous book in the series, Snail Mail No More was written by the authors through responses to each other's emails.

[1] After a year of snail mail following, long-distance friends Elizabeth Richardson and Tara*Starr Lane are ready for the more immediate gratification of e-mail.

Tara*Starr is getting used to having a baby sister, Scarlett, who was born prematurely and becomes a source of worry to the family, and [missing description here] how a social studies project ruined her relationship with her boyfriend Bart.

However, the family is deeply affected when Elizabeth's father is killed in a fatal car crash.

Mary Harris Russell of the Chicago Tribune praised the book's handling of societal issues within the story, stating "the mixture of frothy and heavy topics will be attractive to young readers who couldn't bear either all crisis or all party talk".