David,

Hey it good to see you're still kickin'.

The two publishers that I visited for this post were asked this question "If a writer is trying to get a publishing contract with this company, what would you like to have from them?". The trick word here is publishing contract. I was just informed that I need to pick up more songs from Horipro tomarrow, I'll ask them afew more things to help answer some of the questions posted, but they did tell me that they prefer pitch quality demos. Which means pro. The publishers don't produce the demos for their contracted writers, they hire people like us to do them. Yes they pay for the demo but under most contracts the cost of the demos are deducted from the writers proceeds if the song gets cut, so in most cases the writer pays for the demo anyway. Just like any advance given to an artist is taken back once money starts rolling. Maybe that's what alot of people don't understand. But my questions will be a little more taylored tomarrow to help answer some of these questions.

BM Bland