Tuesday, November 20, 2012

It's been a happy birthday month!

What's your favorite birthday song? If you're singing, thank you!
I looked up some alternative birthday songs and picked this one from the 80s! Love the 80s!

I have had a truly wonderful birthday month so far!
  • Started with a successful Thankful hop with my buddy, Vikki who also helped me by critting my current WIP and I'm over halfway thru another round of editing. 
  • Cassie and you all helped make our 500 followersary (ha ha) celebration an outstanding party!
  • and I was flabbergasted at the response to the Miss You fest - so much love here in the blogosphere!
  • finally, I patiently (somewhat) waited for the next phase of my publishing process and happily got instructions this weekend. I am excited to be working on that now!
I also received some tags and awards that I have collected to post on my birthday =) They are gifts, after all!

Thanks Darling Nicki (sorry, hee)! And Lovely Laura! They both passed me "U Got the Look" (no button, so I made one, of course!)

This is how it works - take your current manuscript, search for the word “look,” and post the surrounding paragraphs. Then tag 5 blogging authors. So here's a quick section from Broken Branch Falls, MG Fantasy:

A lame attempt at a bird call makes us laugh.
“Ca-caw, woot, woot.”
“Come on up, Jordy,” Argus yells to him.
“What kind of bird is that?” I ask. We each extend a hand to him.
“You’re a melonhead,” Argus teases.
“What? We don’t have a secret code anymore?”
Argus looks at me. We shake our heads and laugh some more.
“Not since third grade.”

Tamara probably thought I forgot, but she gave me the icing on the cake with the Sweet Award - thanks, girl! I answered those questions a few weeks ago, here are my answers again, just for fun...
Cookies, ChocolateBrowniesAfter a meal or salty snack, Pumpkin
If you'd like to snatch a sweet award, be my guest! You can see the original post for the questions =P

And Elizabeth tagged me with the Next Big Thing meme. I have done this with Pop Travel and Broken Branch Falls so I don't want to bore everyone doing it again, but I appreciate the tag! I would still like to pass it on too. So I'm naming five bloggers who can choose which award or meme they would like, if any...


Tagging - TamaraAnnalisaJulie LMary P, and Ellie G!

16 comments:

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

You have had a great birthday month! Don't stop.

Madeline Mora-Summonte said...

The month's not over, Tara! Keep working and enjoying it! :)

VikLit said...

Happy birthday month! Is it today then? Hope you have a super day!!!! Yay to birthday month!

Dana said...

What a great birthday month—and the best part is that it's not over yet!

Jennie Bennett said...

Happy Birthday!!!!! What an awesome month :)

randi lee said...

Sounds like an awesome month! Nice! :D

Elizabeth Seckman said...

Happy Birthday to you; Happy birthday to you...I'll stop there before I get sued for copy right infringement!

Rena said...

I'm a big fan of "Today is your birthday."

And happy birthday! I definitely think a month of celebration is about the right amount of time...

Suzanne Furness said...

Happy Birthmonth!Hope the fun continues :)

Sheena-kay Graham said...

Enjoy your B'day month Tara!

Sherry Ellis said...

It has been a great birthday month! I hope all the wonderful things continue!

Tamara said...

So glad your having such a great b'day month!! Don't you love it when everything comes together?

I already did the Next Big Thing twice too. haha. I JUST did it. BUT, you did remind me that someone tagged me for the "You got the Look" and I never did a post on it. Can I steal your button? :)

Tara Tyler said...

of course, tamara!

Livia Peterson said...

Congrats on the awards!

Can I steal your button, too? I received the meme a day ago and could use it...

I'll say this again: Tara, you're a fab artist!

Great stuff happening around here! Looking forward to it!

Happy Thanksgiving! :)

Brinda said...

Congrats on all the awards and love the excerpt!

Unknown said...

Happy birthday month! That sounds amazing. Our first anniversary is coming and we want to host it in Valentine’s Day style. It would be romantic party so we are willing to make the reservation for one of ht prettiest roof top Chicago venues. I am just so excited for this bash and hoping that it would turn out to be super enjoyable.

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