While many composers and songwriters can make great music, how many can make great money in the business? This guide is focuses on specific techniques that can be used to generate money from music in the film and television music industry.

Written by film and television composer and Film Music Network founder Mark Northam based on interviews with professionals in the industry, this new guide includes detailed sections on:

• Breaking Into the Film/TV Music Business – how to do it, how not to.

• Job Sources for Film & TV Music Jobs – where jobs are posted, several unusual sources for jobs, and a step-by-step approach to submitting your materials for film and television projects

• Getting Hired as a Film & TV Composer: What works, what doesn’t – Observations of success traits of composers

• Ground Zero: Getting Hired Without Any Credits – specific techniques to use if you’re just starting out in the business and need to accumulate film and television credits

• Agents: What You Need to Know, What They’re Looking For – Do you need an agent? Info on this and the “Third Party Rule” explained

• Licensing: Getting Your Existing Music and Songs Into Film and TV: Ways to make your existing music earn income without giving up your ownership rights

• Marketing Yourself and Getting “Known” – developing and executing a two-part marketing plan for you and your music

• Maximizing Your ASCAP/BMI/SESAC Royalties: How The Pros Do It – Inside information about ways to maximize your royalty income, including how some types of music pay royalties 500% more than others. Also includes information on maximizing your foreign royalty income.

• Building Your Business: Getting To The Next Level – How to maintain and build your business, generate PR, and continue your success in the business

“This guide is the culmination of many years of work in the area of how composers and songwriters can maximize their financial success and make a living writing music for film and television. In today’s competitive climate, composers need every advantage they can get in order to identify opportunities and turn them into successes. With this guide we look at different ways that music can earn money in the film and television business and describe very specific actions people have used to make this happen,” said author Mark Northam.

Of special interest to instrumental composers is the detailed section on royalties, including a special six-step procedure for making sure that a composer’s performance royalties are paid as accurately and completely as possible.