…To my book signing yesterday in Eldorado, Illinois. It was a wonderful time of seeing some very special people in my life. I appreciate each and every one of you.
I’ve spent most of my career as a completely behind-the-scenes marketing guy or publicist, or the guy interviewing people for my book, but now I’m getting a good understanding of what it’s like to be the guy being interviewed – and it is not super-simple. While writing my first book, I was fully reminded of just how much work goes in to a creative endeavor, and it is remarkable. From concept to motivation to execution – it takes a lot to complete a book, or an album, or a movie, etc. Now I’m fully learning how much effort and attention goes into marketing a product with my name on it, and how important it is to try and do really great interviews. It is easy to make fun of people being interviewed on your local news, or even professionals on …
Below is a new video telling the story of my first book, The Music Industry Doesn’t Have To Kill You.
Towards the end of the 2 year period it took to write my first book, The Music Industry Doesn’t Have To Kill You, I started putting together a Spotify Playlist by the same name. It is specifically intended to accompany your reading of the book. Whether you will like all of the songs or not, I can’t say. But I can say that if you are at all interested in the types of music that continually inspire me – especially what inspired me while writing this book – you will find them in this (currently) 138-track, 10-hour playlist. Every artist and/or song on this list is intentionally selected to show motivation behind the book, add to the book, further prove the points I’m trying to make in the book, make you stop and think about your life, or simply make …
I am honored to share that my first book signing will occur at my hometown library on Saturday, June 2, 2012. From 2-4 PM CT, at the Eldorado Memorial Public Library, in Eldorado, Illinois, my new/first book – The Music Industry Doesn’t Have To Kill You – will be available for purchase on-site, and I will be there to sign copies. I hope to see you there.
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