Welcome back to our series on making money with production music libraries. If you’re a music composer looking to find placements in television, film, video games, and other places, submitting your music to production music libraries is a great place to start. In this installment, we will look at the process of evaluating online production music libraries, and submitting your music.

We’re moving right along with our series on making money with production music libraries. Now that you have produced your music for picture tracks and registered your music copyrights, the next step is to register your tracks with your performing rights organization. Why is this step important? It’s how you get paid. This installment will show you how it works.

In a previous post I proposed 4 reasons keeping a day-job can benefit your songwriting career. This post will tackle the flip-side. Freelancing, or making a living without a steady nine-to-five job can be the perfect support system for the working songwriter. The first part of this post covers freelancing as a career choice. The second part ties freelancing to the songwriter’s career.

It’s one of the most common questions anyone is asked when meeting for the first time. What do you do? For musicians and songwriters, it may not be such a clear-cut answer. In this open question to our readers, I ask how do you answer the question: what do you do?