The Last Binding

And I'm really excited for today's guest.

We are joined by the incredible Freya Mask, Hugo Award-nominated podcaster and USA Today bestselling author of The Last Binding trilogy.

She is also a Sunday Times bestseller with Marvelous Light.

And She's known for her brilliant blending of queer romance, historical and dark academia settings and intricate magic systems and she is absolutely the master of the fantasy genre.

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And obviously, one of the things that I have found out about you is that you're coming off an incredible run of recognition, which is including a Hugo Award nomination for Best Theories for The Last Binding Trilogy, Best Novella for Cinderhouse, and not to mention also your earlier Hugo-nominated podcast, Be the Serpent.

Looking across all these different formats and different types of awards, what do you How does your approach to story structure change when you're building a massive kind of three book arc versus crafting a tight standalone novella?