VIDEOS

Trailers

Book 1 -  The Hidey-Hole Truth

Click to play trailer video for Amanda Cadabra and The Cellar of Secrets. Grumpy British Blue cat with yellow eyes on the left and on the left Amanda Cadabra and The Cellar Of Secrets in ereader and paperback against the background of an old English village in a wood at dusk with lights on in the pub and cottages

Book 2 - The Cellar of Secrets

Tempest the cat on the left. In the background an apple festival with fairy lights next to a spooky church hall. Ghostly image of a pompous man with a monacle in 1918 evening dress and a ghostly image of a couple waltzing at a ball. On the right Amanda Cadabra and The Flawlesss Plan by Holly Bell in ereader and paperback

Book 3 - The Flawless Plan

Click to go to trailer for Amanda Cadabra and The Rise of Sunken Madley. Image of Tempest, a grey British blue grumpy cat with yellow eyes on the left of the image with a sunny village with stormy clouds coming in the background. The books as ereader and paperback in the middle and on the left a sunny ballroom with a grandpiano, stool and chandelier on the right

Book 4 - The Rise of Sunken Madley

Tempest the cat - British Blue grumpy feline - on the left, in the centre a mahogany jigsaw of South America with a black book on it. On the right Amanda Cadabra and The Hidden Depths by Holly Bell in ereader and paperback. In the background the concrete steps of a library basement

Book 5 - The Hidden Depths

Click for trailer of Amanda Cadabra and The Strange Case of Lucy Penlowr by Holly Bell. Image of a grumpy British Blue cat with a twinkle in his eye. Background is a granite manor by a poor at dusk. On the right are the books in ereader and paperback. There are some magical stars coming from the wand in the image. In the top centre is the image of a hooded blonde woman looking out cautiously

Book 6 - The Strange Case of Lucy Penlowr

Click to go to trailer video for Amanda Cadabra and The Hanging Tree by Holly Bell

Book 7 - The Hanging Tree

Click to watch trailer for Book 8, Amanda Cadabra and The Nightstairs

Book 8 - The Nightstairs

First Chapters - Chapter 1 of Each Book

Chapter 1 - The Hidey-Hole Truth

Link to chapter 1 of Amanda Cadabra and The Cellar of Secrets read aloud by Holly Bell in witch hat reading from Amanda Cadabra book while grey British Blue cat looks up at her grumpily from the sofa in a sunny room

Chapter 1 - The Cellar of Secrets

Link to chapter 1 of Amanda Cadabra and The Flawless Plan read aloud by Holly Bell in witch hat reading from Amanda Cadabra book while grey British Blue cat looks up at her grumpily from the sofa in a sunny room

Chapter 1 - The Flawless Plan

Click to go to video of Holly Bell reading Chapter 1 of Amanda Cadabra and The Rise of Sunken Madley. Image of Holly Bell in witch hat reading from Amanda Cadabra book while grey British Blue cat looks up at her grumpily from the sofa in a sunny room

Chapter 1 - The Rise of Sunken Madley

Click to go to video of Holly Bell reading Chapter 1 of Amanda Cadabra and The Hidden Depths. Image of Holly Bell in witch hat reading from Amanda Cadabra book while grey British Blue cat looks up at her grumpily from the sofa in a sunny room

Chapter 1 - The Hidden Depths

Click to go to video of Holly Bell reading Chapter 1 of Amanda Cadabra and The Strange Case of Lucy Penlowr. Image of Holly Bell in witch hat reading from Amanda Cadabra book while grey British Blue cat looks up at her grumpily from the sofa in a sunny room

Chapter 1 - The Strange Case of Lucy Penlowr

Click to go to video of Holly Bell reading Chapter 1 of Amanda Cadabra and The Hanging Tree. Image of Holly Bell in witch hat reading from Amanda Cadabra book while grey British Blue cat looks up at her grumpily from the sofa in a sunny room

Chapter 7 - The Hanging Tree - available from October 2024

Chapter 1 - The Nightstairs

Click to go to Holly Bell reading Wretched Things - The Unhappy Medium 3 by TJ Brown

By TJ Brown read by Holly. Chapter 1 of Wretched Things - The Unhappy Medium Book 3

On Location with Holly

Click to go to video: On Location at A Real Cozy Village Green

A Cosy Village Green

Click to link to video - On Location

A Cosy Village Street

Click to play On Location - Sunken Madley video

Introducing Sunken Madley

Flower Festival at a 700-year-old Church

Click to go to video of Holly Bell reading Chapter 1 of Amanda Cadabra and The Hidden Depths. Image of Holly Bell in witch hat reading from Amanda Cadabra book while grey British Blue cat looks up at her grumpily from the sofa in a sunny room

Chapter 1 - The Hidden Depths

Click to go to video of Holly Bell reading Chapter 1 of Amanda Cadabra and The Strange Case of Lucy Penlowr. Image of Holly Bell in witch hat reading from Amanda Cadabra book while grey British Blue cat looks up at her grumpily from the sofa in a sunny room

Chapter 1 - The Strange Case of Lucy Penlowr

Click to go to video of Holly Bell reading Chapter 1 of Amanda Cadabra and The Hanging Tree. Image of Holly Bell in witch hat reading from Amanda Cadabra book while grey British Blue cat looks up at her grumpily from the sofa in a sunny room

Chapter 1 - The Hanging Tree

Chapter 1 - The Nightstairs

Tips for Writers

Click for video Decisions, Decision - Fabulous, Foreigners in Fiction Part 1: Decisions, Decisions

Fabulous Foreigners 1

Click to go to video Fabulous Foreigners Part 2 - Which UK English?

Fabulous Foreigners 2

Click to to go video What is Foreign? Part 3 of Fabulous Foreigners in Fiction

Fabulous Foreigners 3

Click to go to video: Fabulous Foreigners in Fiction Part 4: How To Get It RIght?

Fabulous Foreigners 4

Click to go to video: 3 Ways to Express a Foreign Language - Fabulous Foreigners Part 5

Fabulous Foreigners 5

Click to go to Fabulous Foreigners in Fiction video part 6

Fabulous Foreigners 6

Click to go to Fabulous Foreigners in Fiction - Part 7. Holly Bell with Youtube play button.button.

Fabulous Foreigners 7

Click to go to video Fabulous Foreigners in Fiction Complete Series

Complete Series - Fabulous Foreigners in Fiction

Click to go to video: Cozy Maps - Yes or No?

Maps in Mystery Books - Yes or No?

Click for video: Spelling It Out - Your Character's Accent Part 1 - TH

Spelling It Out - Accents: Part 1

Click for video: Spelling It Out - Accent Jewel

Spelling It Out - Accents: Part 2

Click for video: Accent Jewel: J - Part 3 of Spelling It Out - Your International Character

Spelling It Out - Accents: Part 3

Click to go to video. Holly Bell in black witch's hat in front of her library. Text: Spelling It Out - Your Character's Accent. Part 4: Valuable Vowels

Spelling It Out - Accents: Part 1

Author Reveal and More

Holly coming out of a cardboard box on a desk in a vintage study: Click to play full reveal compilation

Author Reveal - Complete Series

Link image to play Blooper reel.

Blooper Reel - Holly Bell Author Reveal

Click link to go go 4 Queens of Cozy

The 4 Queens of Cozy Mystery

Click for video #5 step reveal how-to

5 Easy Steps to Showing Your Face on Camera

Holly's Reveal 1: Unboxing ... What?

Click for video of the next part of the author reveal

Holly's Reveal 2: Wearing The Hat

Click to see more of Holly

Holly's Reveal Part 3 (2)

Click to watch Holly's Reveal - The Face Beneath - part 3/4

Holly's Reveal Part 4 (3)

Click to play video of Book Hunt - Up The Garden Path

Holly's Reveal Part 5 (4) The Book Hunt

Holly's Reveal Part 6 (5)

Click for link to Thank You Video

Thank You, 800

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Thank You, Book 7 Launch

Click to go to St Valentine's Day Card
Click to Watch A special Thank You : Book 8

Thank You, Book 8 Launch

White lily on mid blue background with text: This is to say 'Thank you' to... link to video

Thank You, Book 4 Launch

Cornish Language

Who Are The Cornish Nations?

Author Reveal 1: Unboxing. In Cornish

Author Reveal 2: Wearing It. In Cornish

Watch Author Reveal Part 3 - Lifting the Hat in Cornish

Author Reveal 3: Lifting The Hat

Click to play video Author Reveal Part 4: Face Reveal in Cornish

Author Reveal 4: The Face Beneath

Click to play the Book Hunt video with Cornish subtitles

Author Reveal 5: The Mystery Book Hunt - Cornish

Click to play Cornish language version of Return To The Village Green vidoe

Author Reveal Part 6: Return to The Village Green - Cornish

Chapter 01

It was a blissfully sunny August Sunday, and, as the villagers expected, Amanda Cadabra and her irascible feline companion were making their way towards their favourite picnic spot. Jonathan, the dazzlingly handsome but incurably shy assistant librarian, had raised a hand in greeting as they’d passed.

Amanda Cadabra and The Nightstairs

Chapter 01

It was a blissfully sunny August Sunday, and, as the villagers expected, Amanda Cadabra and her irascible feline companion were making their way towards their favourite picnic spot. Jonathan, the dazzlingly handsome but incurably shy assistant librarian, had raised a hand in greeting as they’d passed.

Latest Sequel

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Four strangers, one missing dog and a body. But Sunken Madley is just a quaint, peaceful English village. What does the 1000-year-old ruined priory have to do with it? The answer, as it so often does, lies in the past.

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