Just a little plug here for my friend and music consultant Daylle Deanna Schwartz, former rapping teacher, noted author, speaker and current cheerleader and supporter of all things musically independent.  Her latest book for independent artists - the 3rd edition of Start & Run Your Own Record Label - just came out, and if you’re an independent artist looking for some guidance as to start conducting your business (because, like or not, your music IS your business), I urge you to buy a copy.  It’s a comprehensive look at what you need to do to set up and conduct your business.  Yes, while it’s written from the perspective of running your own label, as an independent artist, that is essentially what you are doing - i.e., running your own label, be it as either a DBA, LLC, corporation or whatever business vehicle by which you conduct your business and present yourself to the world.  In other words, YOU are the label and you are running a jack-of-all-trades operation, from soup to nuts.  This book will help you with the basics and sort things out a bit to make it easier.  It will also inspire you.  Check it out.

And to plug myself a bit, I am thrilled to appear in the book giving a short blurb regarding my thoughts as to why I left the world of tax law to pursue my dream of living the rest of the my life as a singer-songwriter.  Thanks, Daylle!

Here’s a link to Daylle’s site - http://www.daylle.com/