 After three months of researching, plotting, and writing, she sold her first book.She began publishing for Dell Publishing Company (Candlelight Ecstasy Romance) as Billie Douglass, for Silhouette Books (S. Intimate Moments and S. Desire) as Billie Douglass, and for Harlequin Enterprises as Barbara Delinsky.Now, she only uses her married name Barbara Delinsky, and some of her novels published under the other pseudonyms, are being published under this name.