 She began writing as a journalist for national publications including the "Toronto Star", "Maclean's" magazine, "Canadian Living", the "National Post", "Reader's Digest", "Homemakers" and "Today's Parent", and was published as Shelly Sanders Greer in most of her newspaper and magazine articles.After 20 years of freelance writing, Sanders wrote her first novel, "Rachel's Secret", an historical fiction, published in 2012 by Second Story Press.The plot followed her grandmother's journey from Imperial Russia to Shanghai in the early 1900s, and was the first in a series of three stories.