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How to Grow as a Fan! Spark your creativity as you grow into your fandom! This book helps you develop as you embrace the passions and interests that give you joy. Fandoms build friendships and communities through many engaging activities. With the help of this book, you can learn new ways to enjoy being a fan. Inside are numerous pathways that one can connect with others with similar pursuits! Whether it is through starting a collection, dressing in cosplay, writing a blog, or attending a convention, each of these brings happiness to those who participate. This book also contains interviews with fans of all ages (5 to 101), who tell their stories and share how they participate in their hobbies. Celebrate your fandom and the things that you enjoy the most! Fun Things to Do! New Things to Learn! Cool Things to Try! ""This is a book that most of us probably didn't realize needed to be written. But a few pages in and you quickly realize that How to Celebrate Your Fandom is a book that belongs in homes, classrooms, and libraries everywhere. It celebrates our varied interests and highlights the exciting and valuable differences that pique our passions. How to Celebrate Your Fandom fosters connections using our differences! To that end, it's a book every child deserves a chance to read. Zepo publishing takes the good that already exists in the world and amplifies it. A common thread in its books is its message of inclusion and acceptance of our individual differences that connect us in unique ways to one another."" - Dr. Janet Canino Ph.D., LMFT

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Nick is a fan of many different things. His favorite fandoms are the TV shows ""Doctor Who"" and ""Press Gang"" though he likes a lot of other sci-fi shows as well. He also loves gaming (especially role-playing games), films, music, nature/outdoors, astronomy/space, disc golf, soccer, ballet, and learning new things. He works in the field of higher education. Nick has studied and been involved in fan culture for over 40 years and helped start numerous fan clubs such as the Earthbound TimeLords and the Press Gang Fan Club of America. Libby is a software developer by day and tries to incorporate all her love of different fandoms in every aspect of her life. Libby loves to travel and has been to Japan twice (with hopeful plans to go every five years). She is the lead of the Chicago TARDIS game room and enjoys spending her Thanksgiving with her ""Doctor Who"" family. She is involved in many different fandoms/interests. Currently, her favorites include ""Doctor Who,"" Table Top Role-Playing Games, BTS ARMY, Coldplay, traveling, and ramen. Robert has been a fan of science fiction, horror, space travel, and astronomy for many years. He composes music in his spare time, most notably for Chicago TARDIS, and has also released several albums independently. He was a co-author of ""Red White and Who,"" and a founding member of The Federation, which was the first ""Doctor Who"" group in the United States to produce fan videos. He currently works in order and program management for an imaging and optical products corporation.

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