I was presented an opportunity to do things on my own, and I took it. I was there for 10 great years. They did a lot for me, and I left on good terms. Is Brave Music accepting much outside material, or are you pretty much relying on your long history in Nashville to help you find songs, writers and artists? Like most publishing companies in town Brave does not accept unsolicited material.
However, I do rely heavily on my relationships in the publishing and recording community when considering new acts to work with. I have been educating myself on the ins and outs of the sync community and how songs placements are made.
We are talking to a company that already has major success in that world about partnering with us. How did that come about? Good old-fashioned songplugging. It has its positives and negatives! So, um, if you have not joined my onward writers Slack channel, do that. You just write your goals, people talk back and forth to each other. Uh, that link is always www. What happens is we show up in the zoom room, simple app to use.
Um, everybody can see each other and we wave at each other, and I talk a little. Encouraging talk to you for a few minutes and then we share with each other what we are going to be working on. And then guess what? We write for about 45 minutes. We take a little coffee break, we go brush our teeth if we need to do what we need to, and then come back and we write for another 45 minutes or so together. And I know it sounds weird, but you can always flip over to zoom and see people with their writing faces on it.
I know my writing face is ridiculous and my mouth is always moving back and forth. You are writing together. Your phone is not within reach. Oh yes, it is hella early for West coast of the United States. I neglected to say this at the very beginning. We write from 5 to 7 and the reason we write, write from to AM is because looking at all the United States time zones, then the East coast is doing from 8 to 10 and I know that really gets in the way of things like, child running around and working.
What that means is we have started basically hashtag smug club, because once you do your writing on Tuesdays, you wonder around the rest of your day feeling completely smug because you have done this with community.
And boy, do you sleep well that night? Bedhead and pajamas are encouraged. Please wear clothing of some sort. So check that out if you would like to. Thank you so, so much Amy Tessakata. Hi, Amy. Thank you, thank you, Amy.
Clint White is new, as well as Johnston. Thank you again to all of you who support me on Patreon. It means I get to write the essays that I love and that I release nowhere else. So yes, I hope that your writing is getting done. You could be writing at that time period, which is AM Pacific standard time on your own, not in the zoom, but knowing that there are a bunch of amazing people doing the same thing at the same time.
So think about that. Get some writing then, let me know how it goes. Thank you for listening and please, please enjoy Jeremy Spillman.
Rachael Herron: [] All right, well, I could not be more excited to welcome today to the show, Jeremy Spillman. Hi, Jeremy. Please lay it on thick. Let me give you a little bio here. His debut novel, The DeVine Devils, was released just, this last September 24, , with an accompanying soundtrack EP and full-cast audiobook. Rachael Herron: [] That sounds really, really cool.
Especially the soundtrack. Did you approach the book writing with a soundtrack in mind or was that something that came after? Jeremy Spillman: [] Um, yeah. But I wanted to make a certain kind of music, so I wanted to do like cowboy rock. So yeah. Jeremy Spillman: [] Okay. And so, so I started, uh, trying to write a story so I could make the music, but then the story kind of overtook the music….
Jeremy Spillman: [] and I ended up, yeah, the music ended up kinda — kinda more of what the book was. Rachael Herron: [] That is not what I was expecting you to say. We play yacht rock and some of that smooth. Rachael Herron: [] I love doing it. But yeah, in my, in my family, this is the kind of music we were raised with. Um, what, how does the writing process differ? How does it feel different? I mean, obviously, you know, a song is three minutes and a novel is however much time of your life that it took, but how else did it differ?
Jeremy Spillman: [] It felt like, you know, um, it felt like I was using the same muscles creatively. And, and, uh, I think like creativity feeds creativity. So I think writing a novel in some ways made me a better songwriter. Jeremy Spillman: [] I have a little bit of grasp on the creativity. Not that I did that, but I think I had a grasp on what I needed to do.
Rachael Herron: [] That you are used to selling commercially something that you have born from creativity. So that you, you were already over that hurdle. So to keep five years to, to write, um, did you know where the book was going when you were writing it, or were your kind of following it? Jeremy Spillman: [] Uh, definitely pancing. Uh, you know, I, I had the concept, and knew broadly how I wanted it to end, but no, I did not know details. So they came as, as I was writing. Rachael Herron: [] Did you sell it beforehand or did you write it on spec and then sell it?
Rachael Herron: [] How fascinating. I love that. He considers his role as a father the most important in his life. The music was written by Spillman with Nashville artist and songwriter Randy Montana, Hall of Fame songwriter Dean Dillon, and Clint Ingersoll, and recorded and produced by Spillman at his home studio. For a complete list of recorded songs written by Jeremy Spillman, click here.
The DeVine Devils is an exceptionally well-written and fantastically entertaining novel. Nonstop action, with two murderous heroes that Western fans will love.
Like his songs, his debut book illustrates the perfect landscape across the imagination It is funny, unpredictable, musical, mysterious and yes!
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