Donna Grayson's Monthly Newsletter!
November 1999

Last Update: 11/14/99
Happy Turkey Day ! Thanksgiving is just around the corner and I hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday!
Update on my upcoming CD...Josh, Dana and I are getting ready to head into the studio for our FINAL song for this CD. Its hard to believe the recording is finally over. I am sure we will all be recording again soon, as I hope to contribute to a few compilation CDs next year - and who knows, maybe even put a compilation together!
And of course, there is the big debate in my head, if I will play shows or not next year. My first job is to get the CDs in the stores, on college radio and on the internet. Everything will come after that.
Dan Orias, who is one of my songwriting partners on my upcoming CD, now has his very own MP3 download site. You can download his songs with Danny and The O-Tones at his MP3 site. I wish Dan the best of luck, and I hope he climbs those MP3 charts!

These last few weeks I have been busy at all sorts of conferences and classes. On Nov. 13, I attended the Indie Nation Conference in Burbank that was arranged by Los Angeles Women in Music. It was a very imformative conference, with many speakers teaching on the correct way to market your Independant CD Release. A great conference for the recording artist doing it all on their own!

Then I took a few classes through The Learning Annex. The first of which was "Breaking Into the Entertainment Business" with panelists from the business side of movies and television telling how they got to where they are today.
The second was "How to Promote and Market Your Music" with Tim Sweeney about marketing yourself and your CD as an Independant Recording Artist. I heard Tim speak at the LAWIM Conference as well, and his classes and books are extremely beneficial for any unsigned or independant band or artist.

Even though I have spent the month busy learning - I still have had time to create over 50 new Webpage Backgrounds, as well as Thanksgiving Backgrounds, for your free use on your website with just a link back to www.donnagrayson.com. My David Cassidy Page is up and the webrings in place. I hope to get started on some abstract windows wallpapers soon as well.

Please drop me a line and let me know whats on your mind. I love to hear from other up-and-coming musical artists. And I would love to hear what you think about my website. Give me your URL so I can visit your site! Its so much fun to visit the sites of the people who have visited mine!

I hope everyone has an Incredibly Blessed Thanksgiving Holiday!

Until next month,
Love and Good Things,

Donna

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