Make Your Mark

 Make Your Mark by iamemma 

You may, or may not, know that International Dot Day is this very Thursday.  Dot Day, inspired by Peter H. Reynolds' The Dot, encourages you to embrace your creativity bravely and 'make your mark.'  We'll be doing a little feature on The Dot on Wednesday's podcast and for this momentous occasion, I wrote a little song about making your mark and doing what you want to do. 


Hope this starts your week off happily!

Song Sketch Situation: a Thought Piece in Two Parts...

Song Sketch Situation:

So, here's the thing:  technically, I'm not supposed to be recording and distributing other songwriters' work without paying a licensing and distribution fee.  I can do public domain songs but for a song to be public domain, it needs to have been published before 1923. 


Which, as you can imagine, somewhat limits my options.

Possible Song Sketch Solution:

So, I thought maybe there are enough people who love Song Sketches that they would be willing to pay $4 a month to get a free song delivered to their inboxes once a week on  ____day.  I  need a certain amount of people to sign up for me to break even paying the licensing fees, but I really love doing covers and have been getting quite a few requests.  If I did have enough people sign up, I'd cover a Reader's Request song a month (it really should be "Listener's Request" but then it's not alliterative) so that would be incredibly exciting!  You'd never know if your request got covered and was sitting there, patiently waiting in your inbox on ____day!




In conclusion, if you think this is a service you'd definitely be interested in subscribing to, please email me or leave a comment below!  I'd need to start getting licenses in order several weeks beforehand so I'd want to be sure that I have the minimum amount of subscribers.


Whew! 



P.S. Episode Five of Rose-Colored Radio Show will be up on my blog on Wednesday!  Be sure to come back by!


Class dismissed.


Seriously though, thank you all for your constant support!


Love,
Emma

The Baby (album) is Almost Here!

My newest album, Love Songs and Lullabies, is coming out next month! Just in time for Mother's Day-ish! Yay! It'll be perfect for both babies and people who want to be babied (and don't we all need that sometimes?). It'll be a mix of originals and covers - a couple instrumentals, the rest vocals, and all completely soooooothing.

After polling and asking people whether to release it digital-only or both c.d. and digitally I've decided that the subject matter of the album will mean it's given a lot as a gift to new parents and such. So I'm going to release it as a physical c.d. too.

Part of the reason I've balked at the c.d. thing is also the un-eco-friendliness of the jewel cases so I'm so excited to have discovered an adorable little eco-friendly c.d. wallet duplicated by a little independent company. Hooray!

Which brings me to this:

Getting a short run of the c.d. costs about $300. Since I hadn't budgeted that into my album-creation-costs, I thought just maybe you might be willing to help a bit.

Of course, I know you have already helped me out a ton with this album - offering song suggestions, feedback, translations, pronunciation and lyric help, etc., etc. So firstly, thank you so much.

If you're willing to help out financially too and you donate any amount to my PayPal address, I'll send you a digital download card with the album on it for free once the album is released plus your choice of either a limited signed print by the artist who created my album cover (it's her picture up top!) or an original song* emailed to you.

Thank you again for all your help and feedback in the past and for all your constant support.

You are the best in the whole world.
Love,

Emma

*This song will never be available to anyone else by sale or ever released on an album.


Just wanted to thank you all! I've met and actually, overmet my goal!