About Haley…
Haley Hix is a fantasy and historical fiction writer living in New York City.
Originally from a Tennessee farm town, she grew up picking tomatoes and splashing in the creek—and searching for artifacts with her father in the wild and untouched forests of her family farm. That’s where her love for history and buried treasure began.
After graduating with degrees in biology and public affairs, she started working in the field of arboriculture. In her spare time, she obsessively read historical fiction, often losing hours of time researching forgotten corners of ancient history.
In 2020, she decided to combine her love for fiction, history, and the environment to write her first book. She hasn’t stopped writing since.
She is currently working on a three-book fiction series about the seven wonders of the ancient world.
My writing is inspired by…
HIDDEN HISTORIES
myth & legendARCHITECTURAL WONDERS
ANCIENT LIBRARIES
Current Projects
The Wonders, 2024 - Seeking representation
Cassia, a cataloger at the Great Library of Alexandria, prepares to fulfill her uncle’s dying wish: lead a disparate band of scholars through three of the world wonders and write a travel guide for the library’s records.
But the mission is more than she bargained for. Along her journey, Cassia discovers that the true purpose of her mission is to use the powers she’s avoided all her life—the powers her uncle once called her “intuition”—to unravel puzzles and follow the clues that lead to a hidden weapon. A weapon that both Cleopatra and Julius Caesar would kill for.
The Wonders: Part II, In Progress
Past Projects
Shakespeare & Botany, 2023 - Shelved for further editing
William Shakespeare leaves the small town of Stratford-upon-Avon for London to pursue his dream of being a writer. But once he arrives, he encounters a vicious plague outbreak that lands him in quarantine on an earl’s remote estate.
In the earl's library, he happens upon a 300-year-old legend about an ancient medicinal garden beneath the streets of London that may hold a cure for the plague. When he returns to London, his writing career is almost derailed by his search for the long-lost garden, and he must decide how much he’s willing to sacrifice—his career and his family—to find it.