Happy Birthday, SUN!
Is it your 4,603,000,004th birthday? Or the 4,603,000,005th? Well, it’s OK, enjoy, who’s counting anyway?
STACY MCANULTY! She’s counting, that’s who! And she was counting on me to host her on the blog today.
But, you may have noticed, the blog has been DOWN for DAYS…while I co-chaired the RUCCL One-on-One conference this past Saturday and could do nothing about it. So, frantically on Sunday, I renewed the domain (after having mucho problems logging in), but it remained unprocessed. Then I woke up from a nightmare. Yes, this morning, I woke up from an actual nightmare, checked the URL and BAM! It’s back!
But I am also backlogged because I did not work with Stacy to create this wonderful blog about her second book in the Universe series, SUN, releasing TODAY!
So, consider this post a placeholder until I am able to get something worthy of Stacy, Stevie Lewis, and YOU, my dear blog readers, up and running today.
My apologies to SUN!!! Our favorite celestial body deserves better.
Writing for Kids (While Raising Them) 
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October 23, 2018 at 10:28 am
Sylvia Mary Grech
Looking forward to reading it!
October 23, 2018 at 10:46 am
Andria Rosenbaum
Your blog and guest bloggers are ALWAYS worth the wait.
October 23, 2018 at 10:59 am
danielledufayet
I can’t wait to read this bright and happy book! And, thanks, Tara, for always shining your beautiful light on the KidLit community. 🙂
October 23, 2018 at 11:05 am
Michelle O'Hara Levin
Congrats for being back in action! I hope this year’s RUCCL was awesome.
October 23, 2018 at 11:14 am
Tara Lazar
It was, thanks!
October 23, 2018 at 11:13 am
curryelizabeth
We will wait for you, Tara! 🙂 Thanks!
October 23, 2018 at 11:29 am
mariaordish
SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!! We LOVE the Earth book!
October 23, 2018 at 11:34 am
Linda Mitchell
Hooray! Anything that helps humans of any age put things into perspective in a fun ways is what I want to be reading to and with kids. Hip Hip Hooray for One in a Billion!
October 23, 2018 at 12:13 pm
Cherie Downey
I can be patient. 🙂 And meanwhile I am eagerly looking forward to it.
October 23, 2018 at 12:25 pm
Jay
Your blog is worth waiting for so no worries. A huge congrats for getting back up and running. Happy Birthday, Sun!
October 23, 2018 at 12:34 pm
Lydia Lukidis
Great idea!! Very clever
October 23, 2018 at 1:20 pm
Gabi Snyder
I’m glad your blog is back, Tara! I loved EARTH!, so I can’t wait to learn more about SUN!
October 23, 2018 at 1:30 pm
chardixon47
Congrats on the new book birthday, Stacy! Looking forward to SUN!
October 23, 2018 at 1:33 pm
Kim Pfennigwerth
Glad your site is back up Tara and look forward to round two with Stacy!! Congratulations on the new book!!
October 23, 2018 at 1:43 pm
viviankirkfield
And when I saw the brevity of the post, I just thought that was intentional. We would never have known, Tara! Sorry you had blog snafus…glad it has been restored. And I’ll look forward to learning more about Stacy’s new book…I absolutely LOVE the cover!
October 23, 2018 at 1:47 pm
Brenda Huante
This sounds like a great book…congratulations!
October 23, 2018 at 3:44 pm
Author Yvona Fast
I loved EARTH! I”m Sure SUN will be great too! And i’m happy the blog is back. We all get so busy… life!
October 23, 2018 at 6:16 pm
kathydoherty1
I’m fine with a place holder. Till then . . .
October 23, 2018 at 6:36 pm
Mirka
Its crazy, i swear i was reading your latest blog entry the other day, and in the middle of reading, it refreshed and poof was gone! I thought id gone mad.
October 23, 2018 at 8:22 pm
mariagianferrari
Glad it’s back up too!! Sorry about the trouble, Tara. I’m sure it was the last thing you needed!
October 23, 2018 at 11:50 pm
Judy Sobanski (@jkspburg)
No worries. You’ll make it happen. “Here comes the Sun, doo,doo,doo,doo,doo, Here comes the Sun. And I say…it’s all right!”
October 24, 2018 at 10:33 am
Angie
Whew! The anxiety of dealing with techie stuff. Well, that’s showing my generation. But it is stress inducing! We’ll be patiently waiting. 🙂
October 24, 2018 at 1:13 pm
shannonstocker
Tara, you’re adorable. Your posts and blogs always brighten my day anyway (see what I did there?)!
October 24, 2018 at 2:23 pm
Lynne Marie
LOVE Earth and can’t wait to get my hot little hands on Sun. Best of luck to you!
October 24, 2018 at 6:38 pm
seschipper
Tara, when I hear computer horror stories, I am especially grateful I am married to a computer nerd, oops, I meant genius!!! Your posts always make me smile!! 🙂
October 25, 2018 at 10:32 am
David McMullin
I’m so happy to see another book in this series. Earth is fantastic.
October 27, 2018 at 2:11 am
Linda
What a beautiful cover!
October 30, 2018 at 2:12 pm
Cassie Bentley
I’m so glad Tara, you keep the old blogs and posts for us to reread. Writing a picture book is a life long learning skill. I reread one of Stacy’s old posts and relearned stuff all over again.
I love Stacy’s books and ReFoReMo.