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I'm an Ignyte Awards Finalist!
Friends, A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST is a finalist in the Ignyte Awards! My chonky debut has been nominated in the Outstanding Novel (Adult) category. I've been following the Ignytes since they began in 2020 as part of the fantastic online convention FIYAHCON (which honestly changed my life... it was the most uplifting and wonderful convention I've ever attended and I really hope it comes back one day.) As a fan of the awards and all they do to champion underrepresented voices, th
M. H. Ayinde
Jun 101 min read
I'm a British Fantasy Award Finalist! (Twice!)
I'm so excited to announce that I am a finalist in not one but two categories in the British Fantasy Awards! A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST has been shortlisted in the Best Fantasy Novel category, and I've also been shortlisted in the category of Best Newcomer (again for A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST.) This is such a dream come true, and as someone who loves the British Fantasy Society and all the work they do to elevate SFF, this means an incredible amount. It's also wonderful to see write
M. H. Ayinde
May 221 min read
My Books Are Human Authored (not a sentence I ever thought I'd have to write, but here we are...)
It feels incredibly dystopian to be writing this, but I’m just popping up to let you know that I’ve registered my books with the Society of Authors Human Authored programme. As someone who writes fast, who loves em dashes, and who finds the rule of three aesthetically pleasing (see what I did there?!) I want to make it absolutely clear where I stand on generative artificial “intelligence.” The steal-and-regurgitate programmes currently plundering the arts for the gain of the
M. H. Ayinde
May 182 min read
The Hierarchy of Climaxes
As I’ve been wrapping up eleventy billion plot lines in Book 3 of The Invoker Trilogy, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about the order in which that wrapping up needs to happen. I feel like there’s a bit of a hierarchy of plot climax when a story has multiple things going on, and I’ve spent the last few weeks moving around the final scenes in Book 3 so that none of the resolutions feel anticlimactic and everything is (hopefully) given the space and weight it needs. I do resi
M. H. Ayinde
Jan 162 min read
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