Dear All Friends,

My trip to SONY/ATV was a little different than the trips that have been made there before. Before I never questioned anyone about how to submit material. (Thank You Breana for answering my questions.) Well unfortunately a new writer has little hope of getting anything into them without some serious connections. All of their mail is sent to a whole different place to be sorted. They only accept material from contracted writers or through someone/business or legal representative that is already known to them.

With that aside, when they do listen to new mat. from a new writer they expect the demo to be of the best quality (professional demo),Breana made a good point today "If a new writer doesn't believe enough in their own material to drop money into it, then why should a publisher?". She also said that if a song was written with a particular artist in mind, tell them, the person listening may not pick up on your intention. All songs MUST have lyric sheets included. They also prefer to have at least 6 songs from a writer. It's important that submissions are cutting edge, (not a song you wrote when "He Stopped Loving Her Today" was a current hit.) Times and music styles change. Writers need to be aware of that. SONY's only focus is on their current and up coming artist.

The above it pretty much verbatim of what I was told today, but on the bright side, we have an appointment in three weeks to submit one of our writer's project. Wish Trey Earnhardt luck.

BM Bland