The short of it
Ollie Hennis is the author of the Iron Garden and the Bloodletters short story series. Originally from autumn root themself, Ollie now lurks under sky and cherry orchard, plying trade as anything from a Halloween park designer to tarot reader or coffee-slinging bookstore gremlin.
These days, when not writing Good Omens fanfic, Ollie enjoys a good social deduction game with friends, petting every cat, or drinking cheap absinthe with Backlist & Chill Podcast.
Find Ollie on Twitter if you can. We’re not linking you.
Writing Happens Sometimes
Ollie is the author of the Iron Garden and the Bloodletters urban fantasy and horror series of short stories. Past works were featured in YA Magazine, pacificREVIEW, and Unfading Daydreams.
You can enjoy IGU short stories Ollie never published by joining Ollie’s Patreon. Other stories are available from on Amazon.com.
(Cover images by CM.)
Favorite Books
Young Adult
“History of Glitter and Blood” by Hannah Moskowitz
“On the Edge of Gone” by Corinne Duyvis
“Every Heart a Doorway” by Seanan McGuire
“The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)” by Susan Beth Pfeffer
“How It Ends” by Laura Wiess
“The Wee Free Men” by Terry Pratchett
“Extras (Uglies #4)” by Scott Westerfeld
“How I Live Now” by Meg Rosoff
“A Separate Peace” by John Knowles
“Lessons from a Dead Girl” by Jo Knowles
“The Wrap-Up List” by Steven Arntson
Adult
The Arcadia Project series by Mishell Baker (#3 in particular)
“An Artificial Night (October Daye #3)” by Seanan McGuire (but the whole series is amazing)
“John Dies at the End” & “This Book is Full of Spiders (Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It)” by David Wong
“Vittorio the Vampire” by Anne Rice
“The Stupidest Angel” by Christopher Moore
“The Talisman” by Stephen King and Peter Straub
“The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Arthur Conan Doyle
“Rant” by Chuck Palahniuk
Middle Grade
“His Dark Materials Trilogy” by Phillip Pullman
“Anne of Green Gables” by L.M. Montgomery
“Rilla of Ingleside” by L.M. Montgomery
“Evil Genius” by Catherine Jinks
“The City of Ember” by Jeanne DuPrau
“Matilda” by Roald Dahl
“Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White
Children’s
“There’s a Monster at the End of This Book”
“I Need My Monster”
“The Lorax”
“Chloe & Maude”
“The Runaway Bunny”
“Cat Walk” by Mary Stolz
“Caps for Sale”
“Baby’s First Mythos”
Graphic Novel
“The Wicked + The Divine”
“52, Volume 1 – 4”
“Lumberjanes”
“Hopeless, Maine”
“Watchmen”
“The Flintstones, Vol 1 & 2”
Other
Ollie says: Once upon a time, I worked with an online magazine where–among other things–I interviewed YA authors. These links might die randomly but until then, here’s some of the authors I interviewed:
Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl interview: Dangerous Creatures
Kami Garcia interview: Unmarked
Melissa De La Cruz interview: The Ring And The Crown
James Patterson interview: Homeroom Diaries
PC & Kristen Cast interview: Redeemed (House of Night)
Julie Kagawa interview: The Forever Song
Kass Morgan interview: The 100
Soman Chainani interview: A World Without Princes
Adi Alsaid interview: Let’s Get Lost
And I commissioned, content edited, and generally encouraged short stories as an editor there. Here are some of the ones I am most proud of working on, a lot of which deal with sexuality, gender, queer romance, and others. (Also, reading some of them again, I’m remembering how I was not always the last person to edit them.):
“So Full Of Shapes Is Fancy” by Aleksander Shagalov
“My Own Terms” by Aleksander Shagalov
“New Bloom” by Genalissa Smith
“Survey Says” by Genalissa Smith
“What It’s Like” by Genalissa Smith
“The Family That Prays Together” by Genalissa Smith
“Unraveling the Mystery” by Genalissa Smith
“Our V-Day Miracle” by Kelsey Anderson
“A Cosmic Match” by Kelsey Anderson
“Reflection of a Leader” by Kelsey Anderson
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