Blog Tour: 100 THINGS DURAN DURAN FANS SHOULD KNOW AND DO DURING THIS LIFE by Sandy Lender

 

100 THINGS DURAN DURAN FANS SHOULD KNOW AND DO DURING THIS LIFE

Sandy Lender

 

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GENRE:  Entertainment

 

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BLURB:

 

Best-selling, award-winning author and life-long Duranie, Sandy Lender, offers a delightful guidebook to the fun and sometimes wacky events that bring a fandom together. 100 THINGS DURAN DURAN FANS SHOULD KNOW & DO DURING THIS LIFE is a unique, positive, optimistic, totally new take on exploring nostalgia alongside your BFFs with the supergroup that continues to provide the dance track for so many people’s lives.

 

This non-fiction foray into Duran Duran history is unlike any biography you’ve read before. Instead of dry stats and facts, it’s a reminder of the joy and positivity that comes from obsessing over a shared musical interest. Herein you’ll find a series of random acts “to do” and trivia you might have forgotten to celebrate. To-do: Dive in and celebrate again!

 

 

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Excerpt Three:

 

2. To Do

 

Ignore the haters.

 

Being a Duranie has made me a source of ridicule for most of my life. Since 1984 when I heard “New Moon on Monday” and became a fan, bullies have made fun of me for my exuberance and snobs have looked down on me for my musical preferences. Forty years is a long time to endure strangers (and some acquaintances) mocking you for something you love and enjoy, but it helps you grow a thick skin. It also helps you learn to ignore bullies and haters in other areas of life.

 

I encourage you to do the same if you find someone laughing at you because they don’t “get” the genius behind a supergroup that’s been making music since 1978.

 

I encourage you to find your Duranie tribe and enjoy the amusing ideas in this book.

 

 

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GUEST POST

 

Lifelong Prep Work for Latest Release

The research and prep work you asked about for my newest book “100 Things Duran Duran Fans Should Know & Do During This Life,” has been ongoing most of my life. Basically, I lived the research phase.

I’ve been a Duran Duran fan since 1984. I’ve been to more than 30 of their concerts. If we want to talk about the fancy concert with the Orlando orchestra in the early 2000s, we can do that because I was there. If we want to talk about the show under the huge moon in the Rocket Garden of the Kennedy Space Center, we can do that because I was there. If we want to talk about the emotional devastation of John Taylor playing “Lonely in Your Nightmare” to a small crowd of fans at an L.A. hotel after telling us he was taking a break from the band, we can do that because I was there. Remember the guys covering The Animals’ “The House of the Rising Sun” at the VooDoo Festival? I was there.

Now, I’m the first to admit that I’m terrible with numbers and dates. Ever since I underwent a couple bouts with chemo in 2008 and 2011, numbers have been tricky. I’ve lost the ability to “recollect” dates. For some of the research & prep, I sat next to my album and CD collections to double-check each and every mention of a release for this book. I had to pull the “Into the Arena” boardgame out of the closet to make sure I had the right manufacturer and date listed in the book. That sort of research & prep came from the memorabilia in my house.

Then, when it came time to edit, I approached a biographer who has her own Duran Duran titles. Jen Selinsky is amazing, and she made sure things were accurate. She offered suggestions and helped curate a fabulous book about a fun and quirky fandom!

 

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Sandy Lender is an international best-selling poet and award-winning author of fantasy, literary fiction, poetry, and short story work. She’s a construction magazine editor by day and author of #GirlPower fantasy novels by night, living in Florida to help with sea turtle conservation and parrot rescue. You can follow her author page on Amazon, check her website at SandyLenderInk.com, or subscribe to her newsletter at https://bit.ly/SSReNews.

 

With a four-year degree in English and thirty-year career in publishing, Sandy’s successes include traditionally and self-published novels, hundreds of magazine articles, multiple short stories in competitive anthologies, a handful of technical writing awards, a handful of creative writing awards, and the 2023 Michael Knost Wings award. Sandy’s been writing stories since she was knee-high to a grasshopper when her great-grandmother shared her odd little tales of squeaky ghost-spiders around an apartment complex in Southern Illinois. The stories have developed to include strong young ladies working with dragons to save worlds from terrible fates, but those pesky spiders still show up from time to time.

 

There’s always something brewing at Sandy Lender Ink headquarters where some days, you just want the dragon to win.

 

Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Sandy-Lender/e/B00304ZIIC

Website: http://www.sandylenderink.com/

Newsletter: https://bit.ly/SSReNews

 

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