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

By 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:

Introduction

Let me admit, up front, you’re about to read a frivolous romp through a Duranie’s brain. We’re about to dance together down Memory Lane, inspired by a Star Wars book title I saw about four months ago. To prevent myself from stealing the author’s intellectual property, I didn’t open the unauthorized 100 Things Star Wars Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.

Instead, I’ve put together a Duran-o-rama of my own making. It’s arranged exactly as the title suggests: first an item of what a Duran Duran fan should know, followed by an item a fan can do. This order proceeds from one to one hundred in a conversational tone.

The prompts of nostalgia might be numbered, but they’re not in chronological order. Most of the to-do items are geared toward sharing your insanity with others.

Basically, you’re holding amusing reminders of carefree times when a ticket to a concert cost all of eighteen dollars, when you listened to the local radio station at midnight because they were playing the entire new DD release, or when you could grab a crew of giggling girls to plop down on the couch with a six-pack of Pepsi—because that’s what John preferred over the sponsor of the Arena tour—to watch and sing along to Arena: An Absurd Notion, complete with parental advisory.

Now, let me lift the needle off the record for a second.

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Fun Fact From My Duran Duran Research

By Sandy Lender

If we’re looking at how I “researched” my newest book “100 Things Duran Duran Fans Should Know & Do During This Life,” this will be a short blog post.Basically, the way I researched this book was living it.

I’ve been a 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 my first bout with chemo in 2008, numbers have been a little tricky. My second round of chemo was insane in 2011 and, let me tell you, I’ve lost the ability to “do” dates. I had to sit 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” board game out of the closet to make sure I had the right manufacturer and date listed in the book. That sort of research came from the memorabilia in my house.

Then, I approached a biographer who has her own Duran Duran title out there when it came time to edit to make sure things were accurate and correct in the book. Fun Fact: She noticed I misspelled Michael Des Barres’ name when talking about The Power Station. And that, my friends, is why you always hire an editor! Even when you know the material like the back of your hand, your editor can keep you from embarrassing yourself! I have to give a shout-out to Jen Selinsky for her valuable suggestions and amazing help with the book.

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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/

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