PUBLICATIONS

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BOOKS

Published April 2025 by Secret Society of Words Publications.

Sylvia’s vivid dreams of her Aunt’s murder, alive with details only the murderer could know, attacks her sanity for she knows she innocent of the crime. And then the voices begin.  Hounded by police, her escape to outback New South Wales brings to a head the millennia old plot to free a demon and give an ancient shaman eternal life. She must find a way to stop the demon or die in the process.

A suspenseful paranormal thriller set in Sydney and the red soil of outback Australia. It brings together Celtic spiritualism, daemonic possession and a millennia old scheme for achieving eternal life.

NOVELLA’S

BENEATH AN OMINOUS SKY, Editor/Author

Published May 2021: Survivors takes of their experiences in the 2019-2020 Black Summer Australian bushfires. Tales and poems of courage and fear, both dramatic and sometimes funny but all unedited and straight from the heart.

Viv’s Last Hoorah, Editor/Author

Published November 2019: In every country town there is a story. An exotic shop owner inviting friends to her party. A new hairdresser in town, a sculptor, a property owner and a backpacker. What do they all have in common? What emotions come into play? Romance and adventure in Cocknell Creek.

Murder On the First, Editor/Author

Published October 2017: Tranquility Golf Club is disrupted on a beautiful Sunday morning by the discovery of a body in a sand trap. The victim is the groom from last night’s wedding reception. DS Hissteria Mitchell learns the man wasn’t very likeable. And the bride is missing. Is she murderer or a victim? Six authors tell one story, each in their own way, making an intriguing, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, whole.

Alien Zoo, Editor/Author

Published October 2015: Most of the magical shape-shifting creatures had been kidnapped by aliens over many centuries until they were extinct on Earth. They are kept in a zoo on an alien planet as a tourist attraction. Now a broken down spaceship arrives to brighten up the zoo for visitors. The shape-shifters must decide who will get one of the limited seats on the secretly repaired ship.

Seven Little Goatlings, Editor/Author

Published October 2014: A cautionary retelling of the classic fairy tale that outlines the tension between survival and the manipulation of a determined predator. Mama Goat must work for a living and leave her goatlings at home alone. Mr Wolf is a predator willing to do anything to feed his stomach. Who will win? Told by seven authors, this story is a whole, bound with laughter and tears.

SHORT STORIES

Thank You Mr Whitlam, Seniors’ Stories, Volume 10, Seniors Card/Australian Fellowship of Australian Writers, November 2024

The Right Ingredients, Writers Voice, Summer Edition #270, Fellowship of Australian Writers, December 2020

Delayed Reaction, Seniors’ Stories, Volume 6, Seniors Card/Australian Fellowship of Australian Writers, November 2021

November 2020.Christmas Comes But Once a Year, The Beagle, Lei Parker Editor, April 2020.

Instinct, CEA Greatest Anthology Written, Celenic Earth Publications, 2017

Blissful Symbiosis, Flights of Fancy Anthology, FAW Eurobodalla Writers, 2015

Dragonfly, Winds of Change, Editor Elizabeth Fitzgerald, CSFG Publications, 2011

Growing Old, Writers Voice, Summer Edition, FAW NSW Quarterly, Dec 2010

Hobnails from Heaven, Masques, Editor Gillian Polack and Scott Hopkins, CSFG Publications, 2009

PROFESSIONAL ARTICLES

Settling Disputes Effectively, Sid Spindler & Catharina Sheely, HR Monthly, July 2000

Creating an Eco Office, Dr Darren Phillips & Catharina Sheely, Department of Administrative Services, 1992 – available National Library of Australia, Canberra.