Meeting with a mentor/library owner at the 2023 Road Rally leads to a publishing deal - though still early days

[MJLeeman]

I traveled from Brisbane, Australia for the '23 Road Rally (RR). On the first day, I lined up for several hours and registered to play my music to a RR library owner/mentor.

We met on the Saturday afternoon; I provided a QR link to several of my nylon string guitar tracks.

The reactions were: first, "Michael, this is your lucky day!" and second, "How many more similar tracks could you provide in the next 3 months for a flamenco-ish album?"

This direct contact would not have happened if I had not gone to the RR,and had rather hoped for a Taxi forward to lead eventually to a deal - to date I have had 3 or 4 Taxi forwards in as many years, with no follow up or deal.

After the RR, I waited a couple of weeks, then sent the library a link to a new track. The library owner then informed me that he would like to sign me up. At that time, I tried to commit to a number of tracks which I believed I could realistically manage. I avoided the temptation to over promise, which I believe would be important when trying to establish reliablility.

Anyway, I provided 6 guitar demo tracks to the library and all were accepted. I then spent much time learning how to present the music for publication. But I did it (with now a total of 9 tracks made up of 6 guitar tracks,1 dark ambient tension, 2 Christmas crooner songs, with 7 published so far, hopefully awaiting licensing).

For me the good news is that there's still much to learn.

Cheers
Michael Leeman

[superkons]

Great stuff!

[cosmicdolphin]

Awesome. That's the way to do it

[MJLeeman]

Great stuff!

Thank you. I appreciate that you took the time to read and comment positively on my post.
Cheers
Michael

[MJLeeman]

Awesome. That's the way to do it

Thank you for your encouraging words on this occasion and for your previous direct and helpful advices on the peer-to-peer forum.

Cheers
Michael

[steveprobst]

Nice job, Michael!

[MJLeeman]

Nice job, Michael!

Thank you Steve. I value your words of encouragement.

Cheers
Michael