Sixteen truths about building a music career that lasts.
Sixteen chapters from something close to forty years inside the business — the deals, the rooms, the people and the money — sent to your inbox straight after you pay. Read it on a screen tonight.
Sixteen chapters, part memoir, part manifesto, part roadmap.
All three side by side, with the author and the questions: The Long Way Home
The book
The Long Way Home is for every music artist who has ever felt the odds were stacked against them. In sixteen chapters Paul K Saunders shares what he learned as a major-label insider, indie label owner, artist manager, promoter, pirate radio DJ and mentor to thousands of independent artists. This is not a book about overnight success. It is about building something real — on your own terms — with the people who believe in you.
"Paul K Saunders has lived the entire evolution of the music business. Now he's handing artists the playbook he wishes he had." Artists. Fans. Venues. Believers.
Sixteen roads
The book and the album were never meant to be separate. Each chapter has a song written to carry it, from the first road to the last. Read a chapter, play its song, and you get more out of both than either alone.
Part of the book is memoir — the cardboard box at Decca, the A&R man who taught Paul to listen, one night with Sugar Lime Blue. Where a lesson needed a life to live in, it lives in Jesse: not any one artist, but a career built from patterns Paul has watched play out across dozens of real ones over four decades. The book tells you which is which as it goes.
The other two
The same book in print, and the sixteen songs written to carry it on a card you tap with your phone. Each sells on its own.
The same sixteen chapters in print, for the shelf and for lending to the bass player.
The sixteen-song album on an official TapTunes card. Tap it with your phone to listen and collect.
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Questions
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Yes — the paperback is $20 plus shipping and handling. It is printed to order rather than stacked in a warehouse, then posted to you. For now it ships to US addresses only, and shipping and handling is $5.69, added at checkout.
Yes — buy each one: the ebook $5, and the paperback and the Music Card $20 each, plus shipping and handling on each ($5.69 and $2.95, US only), added at checkout. The ebook lands straight away; the paperback and the card follow in the post, separately, from the two places that make them.