Dear All,

Sorry, yesterday started off like a nightmare. I awoke to a fridge defrosting and water from melting ice coming from the dispenser and I HAVE HARDWOOD FLOORS AAAAAH!. Once the repair guy got it fixed, I spent most of the day listening to submissions from you folks.

There is a bunch of talent on this sight. I had 5 songs that I passed to the producer and if he likes any of them, they will be presented to the artists. Anyway that's how that works. He chooses between 15 to 25 songs that he feels suits (in this case a M/F duo) They are allowed then to choose 10 from them. If they don't agree on ten then back to the publishers we go.

I did go back to Horipro to pick up more songs, Mr. Baker wasn't there so I spoke to Amy. Asked her afew questions

I asked:
Can a person recommend someone else?

Answer:
This is done everyday, but done for a writer that has no interest in having his/her song published, why waste everyone's time? We deal with represenatives everyday.

Asked:
Will Horipro accept demos that are not industry standard or what we call pro demoed songs.

Answer:
We ask for pro demos but writers need to know, we are not producers and have a hard time envisioning what is beyond what we receive. We don't put alot of effort in to listening beyond poor production. When we do agree to listen to a writer that has no writing history, we like to think (and most other publishers do too) that we give the best opportunity we can for them to present hopefully their best to us. We don't want to pass on great songs just because "we didn't get it." and I'll tell you first hand, bad vocals and out of tune instruments are hard to ignore to focus on the message of the song. That's why we ask for good demos. It's the fairest way to everyone.

She didn't have alot of time and neither did I, but I hope this will give you all a little view into the publishing world.

BM Bland