Wookiee
As I usually do, cut three or four CD-R's do some printing stuff for cover and liner etc., give a couple away, stick one up on the shelf with the other ones I have done, move on to the next one.
 
You could if you feel brave send it to Sound on Sound for a review, though I would not hold my breath, as good as your music is I think it is who you know where getting a review with them is concerned if you get my furry drift.
 
PS PM me and I could be interested in spending a few of the remaining pennies I have on a copy I would even pay P&P

Thanks John, but no purchase necessary

paulo

rsp@odyssey.net
I like your idea of sending it to the author who wrote the book. No telling where that might lead. If nothing else, you might get a nice letter acknowledging your work.
 
Randy
 

 
I was going to say that, but he's ignoring me.....

Yeah right..(on both counts)

jamesg1213

rsp@odyssey.net
I like your idea of sending it to the author who wrote the book. No telling where that might lead. If nothing else, you might get a nice letter acknowledging your work.
 
Randy
 

Scary tho...he might tell me to cease and desist immediately..

That is not so far fetched as you might imagine. Although the title of an individual book is not protected under copyright law, there is some protection granted under trademark law. The fact that you are making a record album using the title of and inspired by a book may actually make you more vulnerable to trademark infringement claims. In order to claim trademark protection as a title of a book per se, the work would need to be part of a series ("Masturbation for Dummies" would probably run afoul of this kind of protection), or to have achieved such a high level of public recognition that someone could be misled by the similarity ("Gone With the Wind" by Nobody Special). It is easier to obtain and defend a trademark for "related" materials than to get one for the book title itself. A T-shirt with the book title might be an obvious example, and especially if the author or his publisher has sold such an item or registered a trademark with the PTO. An album using the name, might well provoke a response. And since defense of a trademark requires that the holder actively police his rights by contesting any public infringement, and a letter costs little, you may well hear from the author. 
 
Note that like copyright you do not need to register a trademark in order to assert it, so even if the PTO database does not show a registration for the book title as a related album, you may still have trouble.

Part 1 of a potentially interesting 2 part article on getting your music out there and heard, in Music Tech magazine...
 
Get Your Music Heard -The Ultimate Guide – Part 1
 
 
 
 

rsp@odyssey.net
I like your idea of sending it to the author who wrote the book. No telling where that might lead. If nothing else, you might get a nice letter acknowledging your work. ...

 
I don't. But then I have done this to many of the literatii that were (and some are) around my dad and his work, and for the most part, you are compared to the kitchen sink, the cockroaches, or the rats a lot more than you are for what you said and did or wrote, or sang!
 
Luciana -- (on my screenplay) -- "why don't you use more universal symbols instead of personal symbols?"
 
Joaquim -- (on my book of poems - 75 of them) -- "                              " (you get the idea, right? He never bothered to read them. Will tell me after he dies that he didn't have the time!)
 
Isabel -- (older sister and sometimes emotional idiot representing the family!) "I'm so mad, I could not borrow the book, to photocopy the pages I needed"/So? Bring in a scanner and then scan it!/"I'm not scanning anything! I need to photocopy a couple of pages!"
 
Brown University Moron -- "Very nice work! You might think about publishing it!"
 
UCSB JackAss and Jerk -- "We can't set a bad precedent by allowing you a stipend to spend your time writing!" (Look at my record now!) Oh, btw, this same thief used up several million of a donation from the Gulbenkien Foundation on people picked off the street in Dakar and Sweden and Argentina, to study Portuguese 101 and 102! That ought to further the study of Portuguese arts and literature that bring the students in!
 
Nice guy Jesuit and sometimes tennis partner before he passed on -- "Sometimes we just have to give up and go somewhere else." "Yeah, but you're talking destroying the  spirit of your own children." "Yeah, I can relate. Sometimes I feel the very church I'm a part of is in it to destroy our spirits so we all believe a fantasy!"
 
CHouse#1 -- "Just unplug this and plug this here and it should work". Done that. Nothing!
 
CHouse#2 -- "You need to use this other program to make that program work!". Still not working!
 
CHouse#3 -- FRED!
 
CHouse#4 -- Too busy with Photoshop to make $100 bux!
 
Famous singer that has gotten 4 of my poems -- "These are really neat and I'm hoping to find some way to sing these, specially the one about vision/poem"// It has been 18 years, and one dinner, and two letters! Either him or I will be dead before I hear from him!
 
But there are 3 people that have helped a lot and they are, in my life, the greatest inspirations for anything I do. They are:
 
Kevin Ayers - Gave permission to use his music on my film
 
Anthony Phillips - Allowed me to use his music for the Ygdrasil Journal of Poetic Arts issue of live readings. I read a poem over his music.
 
Gilly Smith - Shakti Yoni, is one of my secret dream folks with one of the nicest spirits of anyone I have ever met. Also a part of the Poetic Issue for Ygdrasil.
 
Favorite line EVAH from a musician .... Mike Howlett on his warmup and testing in Eugene, OR ... "is it too bassy?" 

rsp@odyssey.net
How refreshing that you could make this thread all about you.

 
I'm going to take your advice Randy, and write to Alan Garner.

I think tying the book in with the music is a great idea..maybe the author would let you put songs on his website. 
Soundcloud will let you make a group of songs that you can then link to. The advantage there is that a listener who really likes the music has immediate access to all tracks. If you choose not to allow downloads from SC, you can link to a site like CD baby and maybe make a few sells off of it. I'm waiting for SC to eventually offer a paid service where it will cost people to download certain music...and then you make money too.
 
Posting a movie on YouTube is also helpful, with a link to a site they can buy from..........If you're looking for maximum listens to your track you almost need to be out there like a mad man for the first several weeks after release on all the social networks promoting it..and as soon as you stop doing that the track will probably be buried unless you can somehow keep the momentum going. 
 
When I post one of my tracks on Facebook, I might as well pee in the wind...no one even notices it. A site devoted to your music on Facebook might help but I think many users stay away from anything that looks commercial on FB...most of them are there to catch up on news from friends. 
 
Having followers on soundcloud is your largest advantage .. the more people who follow you there will repeat play or play new tracks you make.Having sincere dedicated followers is probably one of the toughest things to get.
 
NOTE- Hey James I just interviewed another Scot by the name of John Moxey on my show...he touched on some of the ways to get music noticed.