Contributors Wanted!

Be a Guest Blogger

Most of the readers of songwritinghooks.com are musicians, songwriters or serious music lovers with strong opinions. We want you all! We're building a stable of contributors who want to be a part of the conversation in a big way.

Benefits of being a guest blogger:

• share what's grabbing you in music right now
• each guest blog post will include a bio blurb, and a link to the guest blogger's own site, helping you promote your own work to the songwritinghooks.com community
• we can time your post so that it appears when you are most interested in promoting yourself (e.g., to coincide with your CD launch, showcase, etc.)
• no commitment: we'll try each other out for one post. If it works for you and it works for us, we'll consider a second date.

How it works:

• add a comment below indicating your interest, or DM us at twitter.com/songhooks. We'll get back to you ASAP letting you know if/when we can get your contribution in.
• let us know what song you want to cover (right now we want well known mainstream songs, current or classic; though we invite you to promote your music in your bio, this isn't the place for you to tell us why your original music is hook-y)
• submit a blurb saying what you think the effective hooks are in the song we agree on. If you can provide the audio clips, all the better. For examples of the sort of post we're looking for, have a look at the "If U Seek Amy" post.
• we'll add your post to the blog, along with your bio, and promote it to the community; hopefully you'll promote it to your followers, too.

(See the bottom of the page for quasi-legal fine print.)

Too Much Work? You Can Always Take the Easy Route

Alternately, you can just comment on anything you find at songwritinghooks.com. Your web link will appear with each comment, helping you promote your own music.

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Quasi-Legal Fine Print about Guest Bloggers

• the content of your blog post (i.e. the smart stuff you have to say in the blog) belongs to you 100%. You grant us permission to use it at songwritinghooks.com and in any related promotional endeavors, but you still own it to use however you want.
• the traffic generated from the post, any user information gathered (none at the moment), and any other benefit from the traffic, belong to songwritinghooks.com.
• if you want to contribute anything to the encyclopedia ("Hookipedia"), or if we re-purpose your comments and include them in the encyclopedia, that would become part of the encyclopedia and as such would belong to songwritinghooks.com.
• we trust that what you write will not be breaking any laws. We won't publish slanderous or libelous material, but if something slips past us, you are solely responsible and accountable for those comments. Similarly, we trust you won't be plagiarizing anything, and you agree to be completely responsible and liable if you do plagiarize.
• we might do some editing of your post, including linking to other relevant parts of the site or other off-site resources. Rob comes from a magazine and media background so he's very sensitive to the author's voice; if there are any significant edits we'll run them by you first (or, this being the web, we can always revise after the fact).
• sometimes things happen beyond our control, and your blog post may not run when we thought it would (or worst case scenario, may not run at all). We sure don't expect this ever to occur, and we won't waste your time or ours going through the work of getting your blog post together if we don't truly believe that we're going to run it. But just to cover our butts, we need to include this: we can't promise that your post will be published.
• if at any time you regret the decision to contribute (we can't imagine why, but for the sake of discussion...) we'll take your post down. And if we need to remove your posts at any time, for any reason, we will do so at our discretion.
• we don't promise to deliver to you anything that isn't explicitly outlined in advance and in writing. We can't pay you with Bentleys or Benjamins, promotion or dollars, fame or fortune.

Comments

[David Kraut]

I'd like to blog about one of my favorite songs -- "When the Stars Go Blue", the Ryan Adams song redone by Tim McGraw.

[Cliff Goldmacher]

Hi Rob,

I'm a songwriter and producer based in NYC but I've also worked as a staff songwriter in Nashville. I'm a friend David Kraut's which is how I found your blog. Congrats on a job well done! I've got a few articles that might be helpful to songwriters including one about the differences between songwriting in Nashville and New York City. If you'd like to consider it for your blog, I'd be honored.
Best,
Cliff