POINTERS FOR THE JOB SEARCH
Apply for an internship or an entry level
position as a receptionist, in the mail
room, or tape copy, and discover if publishing
is for you. "At our company, we've pro-
moted almost every intern that stayed with us,"
says Stone. "People that started with
us in the mail room have been promoted.
Secretaries and receptionists--one of our
former receptionists is now our director of
creative services."
"Music publishing is the less talked about, or
less known part of the business, but
it's also the most solid. Friends of mine have
been in music publishing for years and
years. Once you get a little bit of that fever,
working with writers in the very infancy
of their careers and developing them, it can be
very rewarding."
THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT THIS
JOB:
"When you have built relationships and helped
develop the careers of
writers, producers, and artists and then you
come to the end of their
first publishing agreement, and have to go
about the process of renego-
tiating a new deal, it can be a challenging and
sensitive process
because you've developed friendships. Nine
times out of ten we
manage to keep people. It's not real pleasant
when something you've
worked on and developed is walking out the door
and going to see
every other publisher in town. That's a
challenge."
THE BEST THING ABOUT THIS JOB:
"I love the very first time that I hear
something. Somebody sends me a
song by a writer, a band, or a writer/producer
and I hear something
new that I think is just fantastic. I love
bringing the person in and
showing them the genuine enthusiasm I have for
their music. I get a
little star struck. When somebody really puts
together a fine piece of
work--whether it's country, or rap, or R&B,
or pop, or rock, no matter
what it is--I get very excited about that. The
next step is to meet the
person and spend time with them; to relay the
enthusiasm I have and
to see their eyes kind of light up because
there is someone that is
excited about what they are doing. That is
still the most exciting part
for me."
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