books as influences: Stephen King’s The Eyes of the Dragon, Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club (novel), Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, Dathan Auerbach’s Penpal. Her recent reading has included Sharp Objects and Gone Girl (novel) by Gillian Flynn, and The Good House by Ann Leary, which she called an "extraordinary debut novel" and the "perfect delicate balance of intrigue and poetic justice". Bell has said she likes "suspense, some domestic drama, and strong deeply flawed characters". Bell has said a good last line or paragraph is her favourite part of a story. Citing the last lines of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World as a favourite: "Just under the crown of the arch dangled a pair of feet. Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and, after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east...." Audiobook In an interview published 18 February 2015 Bell announced an audiobook version of Sniggerless Boundulations would be available on Audible in about a month. She said "I have been working with a voice artist Jon Severity to get my book into audio format, he has been doing a fabulous job". The audiobook for Sniggerless Boundulations went live on Audible 5 March 2015. It is 58 minutes long (unabridged) and is in the category of Fiction > Short Stories & Anthologies. It is narrated by Jon Severity and the audio sample is 2:16 minutes from the story Garsdale. Laissez Faire Bell published her second short story collection on 8 September 2017. Bell announced it was three years in the making. The collection contains fifteen stories plus a "bonus track" (poem) and runs only 48 pages long. Feminist writer Ruby Hamad posted an except from the story The Permanence of Ceramics pertaining to May–December marriage, referring to it as "micro-fiction", "ultra short stories", and remarking "It's amazing what creative minds can do with so little words." The promotional tagline is Laissez Faire: Awkward. Weird. Excruciating. Stories The collection contains the following stories: Bonus track: Yawning Bill of Fare Hunter anthologies Novascapes volume 1 Bell contributed a short story to Novascapes, the 2014 Hunter Speculative Fiction Anthology, alongside award-winning authors such as Margo Lanagan, Kirstyn McDermott, and Russell Blackford. Bell's story, The Switch, is based on Germanic folklore. The Anthology was published 30 September 2014 by Invisible