6 Stories, 1 Song and a whole lot of Dark
Lithgow author, Carole Kelly, is launching a series of short, dark and twisted fiction titled ‘Black, no sugar’. The stories are being distributed as podcasts.
At the end of February 2025, the anthology featuring all Carole’s stories will be published as an audiobook and in paperback.
The audio recordings of the six stories feature Blue Mountains actor Shane Porteous of Australian Television’s ‘A Country Practice’ fame, with Central West voice actors Sumara Meers, and Bryan Cutts (also the series producer and director).
The series’ title song ‘Black, no sugar’ is written and recorded by Bathurst’s Bruce Inwood.
The entire production was recorded at Tim Roebuck’s studio in Bathurst.
As they’re released, each story can be listened to on the website blacknosugar.au, and can be found on streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio and others.
The project is supported by the Australian Cultural Fund.
Carole has been writing for most of her life. Her first published work is ‘Cerelia’, a dystopian post-holocaust fiction, which is included in the anthology ‘The Four Season Project’ (2022). She has since been published in several other anthologies, including in 2024, ‘Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies’, and ‘Monsterthology 3’.
Readers compare her work to the writing of Margaret Atwood, Laurell K Hamilton and Stephen King, with a touch of American Gothic included.
She is currently one of the judges for The Aurealis Awards 2024, in the Horror Short Story category.
As a Masters qualified psychotherapist specialising in Relationship Counselling, Carole brings multidimensional characters and their complex relationships to life in her stories.
Carole was born in New Zealand and lived both there and the UK, before settling in Australia.
Her early jobs included window dressing, debt collection and working for the British Civil Service, before pursuing a career as a complementary therapist.
In Australia, Carole extended her allied health practice, moving into grief & trauma and relationship counselling, and completed a Master’s in Counselling & Applied Psychotherapy.
For more information and links to the podcasts visit blacknosugar.au
