Editing Danielle Steel (section)

===1965–1971: Career beginnings===
While still attending New York University, Steel began writing, completing her first manuscript at 19.<ref name="readersclub"/> Steel worked for a public-relations agency in New York called Supergirls. A client, ''[[Ladies' Home Journal]]'' editor John Mack Carter, encouraged her to focus on writing,<ref name="People" /> having been impressed with her freelance articles. He suggested she write a book, which she did. She later moved to San Francisco and worked as a copywriter for [[Grey Global Group|Grey Advertising]].