Welcome to My Blog

Hi Everybody:

Thanks for coming by to visit my new blog. I'm really excited to have this little corner of cyberspace to share with my fellow obsessive-compulsive songwriters, and I hope to hear back from many of you.

I've been haunting the Internet for over a decade now...showing up in e-zine articles like those on the Writers Write (http://www.writerswrite.com) or the Muses Muse (http://www.musesmuse.com).
You may have run into me through my Internet radio talk show, "I Write the Songs" (http://www.iwritethesongs.com) or through my Dallas-based umbrella company, CQK Music Group (http://www.cqkmusic.com). Perhaps you have even read my book, "How to Get Somewhere in the Music Business from Nowhere with Nothing" (http://www.fromnowherewithnothing.com) --or taken one of my songwriting courses at Southern Methodist University.

Whether we have ever "met" before or not, I hope you will return soon and frequently. I will post a new entry every week. Most of the time my thoughts will center around songs and the craft of songwriting, but I may -- from time to time -- wax a bit philosophical, or don my promotional hat and talk about ways we can find our way through this maze we call the Music Business to the Oasis of Success.

Wherever my sometimes scattered mind may lead, I am absolutely confident that I will NEVER run out of things to write about. Music is as infinite as the universe and as much of an adventure to explore. It is the language of the heart, and the heart is never empty of emotions. As Shakespeare so beautifully put it in Twelfth Night:
If music be the food of love, play on!

All Good Things to You,
Mary