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I'm out of town, Heidi, without my book. I'll check when I get home. Truth can be communicated amidst fictional data. I get into that in the chapter, "Truth Vs Fact in Songwriting." Your copy should be there soon. Check it out. The industry has changed so much, though, that PR is not enough for selling CDs and songs the way independent artists need to sell. Itunes, live concerts, CD Baby and places like that require people to buy our CDs and songs one at a time. We do not have the benefit of major label bucks spent on advertising, PR and payola (or whatever the politically correct term for it is now). People have to want to buy your song because it communicates something they want to hear it or want to say to someone else with your song/record as the spokesperson. Carol may want to tell her boyfriend something she can't put into words and she loves the melody to your love song so she downloads it and plays it for him. One at a time. That's how people are won over. And the truth wins them over, along with the craft to communicate it. So I'm back to my original point I always make: truth and craft = remarkable songwriting.

Wasn't I supposed to be out of town? Well gotta go now. You guys really inspire me.