She finally began working on her first novel, ‘Who is Frances Rain?’, published in 1987 by Kids Can Press under the title ‘The Haunting of Frances Rain’. She soon appreciated many of her daughter’s books and understood that she enjoyed writing more than painting. It was at this point that Buffie started to note down her memories of the log cabin at Long Pine Lake and of her father’s death in a journal. Looking at her teenage daughter Christine Anne, Margaret began to remember her own childhood. A year later, Buffie started to earn her living as a freelance illustrator and painter. In 1976, she left the post and tried her hand as a teacher of art in the River East School Division in her native Winnipeg. Four years after her dismissal, she found a job at the Winnipeg Art Gallery where she has fulfilled the duties of a painting instructor. From 1968 to 1970, she worked as a fashion illustrator at the Hudson's Bay Company. Margaret Buffie was not always a writer, she started her career as a visual artist.
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