Author: Elizabeth Hyde (The Temperamental Writer)
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2023 is gone for good, but I am not!
Hello again! ….It has been some time. After I was last sighted (almost a full year ago, but not quite), I found myself utterly swept away by the tide of 2023. I was stranded on an island and forced to eat my shoes and have only just managed to get home on a raft I…
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Smashing and Dashing Character Awards 2022–in which someone is even more sleep-deprived than I am
Hello friends! The first month of 2023 is nearly gone, but we still have some important 2022 business to attend to: We must discuss characters from books that I read last year! We must give them awards! Fortunately, there is a handy-dandy blog tradition that allows us to do just that. [This awards ceremony was…
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A vague, sleep-deprived recap of 2022
*wanders in looking vaguely lost and sleepy* Hello there, friends. If I’m not mistaken, I believe I’ve made it to the new year? *looks confusedly at map* *muttering wait a second, what kind of map is this anyway? it’s just a bunch of boxes with numbers in them and a big picture of a baby…
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One Quirk Later #17–Less than 25%
….Hi, friends. Life is a thing. It has been busy. I mean…I MISSED TWO QUIRKS. *collapses weeping* But I’m back for this one, so… *dabs away the tears with a handkerchief, straightening up bravely to face the world again* As always, Jem Jones is the distinguished host and we are the writerly goblins who do…
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Mini-Reviews–prose, undercover operatives, and the Black Death
Hello, friends! So….time is a thing. A lot of it has diminished and passed into the undying lands since I last graced you all with my presence. I’ve been quite busy–and I’m not exactly about to get LESS busy…but what else is new? A short update of the past few months: Anyhoo, I think it’s…
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One Quirk Later #14–The Island
Hello, friends! I’m here because there’s a quirk–and quirks are important to me, don’t you know. But also I’m terribly busy because my sister is getting MARRIED next week. So let’s keep this brief. Many thanks to Jem Jones for the prompt! A few things you don’t need to know before you read what I…
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In which I tell you everything about my book, except…what it’s about
Hello, friends! Bold of me to assume I would be gone for the month of May and then…come back at the start of June. Ha. The naivete. And I KNEW there were all kinds of things happening in June and July that would have me Very Busy, but…I was overly optimistic? Let’s just say, I’m…
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One Quirk Later #13–Just two siblings having tea, certainly no angst…
Hello friends! As you may recall, I told you I would be gone for the month of May. Yet here I am, with the month not yet over? You may well wonder, why have I returned prematurely? The answer to THAT, my dear friends, should be evident from the title of this post. Grandma Jem…
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One Quirk Later #12–Moonstone (+ Hiatus announcement??)
Hello, friends! *banging and clattering from backstage as I try to find the intro for 30 seconds before shouting, Aw, just give ’em the fanfare.* *trumpet fanfare* Yes indeed, my friends. It’s time for another Quirk from Grandma Jem! You know the drill. And if you don’t, it’s as simple as A, B, C Agonize…
Trivialities 