Attention New Songwriters: Publish Your Own Songs

The Ultimate Music Business Guide For Beginners


Music makers new to the independent recording business will need this book. Learn to promote, market and sell your own independent CDs. A great book for young songwriters, aspiring recording artists, studio owners and music producers.

Memphis,TN (Presse News) October 25, 2006 -- Recent television talent competition shows are prime examples of how the major record labels overlook talent. Aspiring recording artists of today have two options. One is to grow older and become disinterested in making it and the other is

to release an independent CD. Many of today’s major recording artists surprisingly chose the latter and were discovered after their own successful independent CD releases!

Most of the thick music business books that are currently on the market today are geared toward those who are already actively involved in the business (i.e. working bands, studio musicians, songwriters, etc..). To a newcomer most of this information is hard to understand. Not knowing what questions to ask can be very expensive through an entertainment attorney’s consultation sessions. Trying to start and run an independent record label without the proper business knowledge (or direction ) will be even more expensive and frankly just an overall bad decision. Finally there is a music business book written in layman’s terms with “must know” information.

"In the Right Direction - A Beginner's Guide To Starting A Record Label (3rd Edition)" by Samuel D. Gilleylen was written for those who know very little or nothing at all about the music business. This book gives the reader an overall scope of what goes on within the independent music business, including the information needed to actually start and run one's own independent record label! This book also contains checklists, artist royalty breakdown information, independent record promotion and distribution techniques, important contacts (including phone numbers, web sites and mailing addresses), and much more. All in 70 easy-to-read pages! This will be the best money that an aspiring independent recording artist will ever spend toward his/her musical career. The internet price is $16.25 + $2.75 shipping & handling when ordered online (www.futuremix.biz).

About The Author: Samuel Gilleylen, President / C.E.O. of Future Mix Publications, resides in Memphis, Tennessee. He has been involved within the independent music industry as both an aspiring songwriter/musician/producer and also a record label executive. His experience within the business spans over 20-years and includes commercial printing, audio engineering, studio session musician, record promotions and distribution, A&R, artist development, label consultant, music publishing, and business administrations. Though he loves songwriting and producing music, Samuel has always wanted to write books.

During the 90’s downsizing of many companies, including the one in which he worked for at the time, he decided to take a break from the music business and to try his hand at writing. Thus his 1st and 2nd editions of, “In the Right Direction - A Beginner’s Guide To Starting A Record Label”, which appeared in 1998 and 2000 respectively, were sold exclusively over the Internet as information booklets. Future Mix Publications was formed as a result of the tremendous success of these internet booklets and to give birth to the 3rd edition as a trade paperback. This book appears in major book stores and public libraries across the U.S.A. and Canada.

"In the Right Direction - A Beginner’s Guide To Starting A Record Label (3rd Edition)"; Samuel D. Gilleylen; © 2002 - 2006; ISBN 0972304207; LCCN 2002093492; Category is Music Business / Recording Industry; 70 pages; $24.99 Retail; 8 1/2” x 11” trade paperback; Illustrations include a Start-up Checklist, Artist Royalty Calculations, a Record Store Sample Consignment Form, and a Publisher’s / Songwriter’s Credits examples; Future Mix Publications, P.O. Box 181356, Memphis, TN 38181

The wholesalers for this book are Baker & Taylor, Quality Books and Whitehots (Canada).

Contact: Future Mix Publications
Email: FutureMix @ hotmail.com