Anne, one organization you should know about is the Songwriters Guild of
America.
Write to George Wurzbach
Songwriters Guild of America
Room 1306
165 W 46th Street, NY NY 10036
and ask for membership info.
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Now for my own cheerless outlook:
Seeking out a publisher at this time would be, imo, premature. The reason is
that you can offer them only the songs, no guaranteed way of making money.
If you could walk into a publisher's office and say "I've just signed a deal
to write six songs for the new Bette Midler movie," then they could see the
mechanism whereby the money would be generated for them.
It's the same business philosophy that makes a label reluctant to sign a new
act until the act has proven that it has a following who will spend bucks.
The music business is cruel; it reminds me of the Biblical parable of the
talents, where the third servant says to the returning lord, "Master, I know
you are a hard man; that you reap where you have not sown."
To reap where they have not sown is what almost every suit in the music
business devotes his/her career to.
DAVID LAHM
