Music Clearance: “Girls Just Want To Have Fun”

You have almost finished editing your first full-length novel and are belatedly beginning to think about how to get people to buy it. The book will be self-published, but how do you promote a self-published book? A friend suggests creating a “book trailer” that you...

How Songwriting Teams Can Avoid Disputes

Jerry Leiber, a lyricist from Baltimore, teamed up with Mike Stoller, a music composer from Long Island, in the 1950’s to write such hit songs as “Hound Dog” for “Big Mama” Thornton, later immortalized by Elvis Presley, and “Yakety Yak” for The Coasters. Felice and...