Hi Everyone! Just wanted to share the news that I have relaunched my Skool community for 2026 with new tiers, classroom content and live calls! This follows a pilot programme last year with some of you from this community, in which you helped me refine what I wanted my community to be, and kindly shared testimonials of your experience working with me. I'm really excited to see where this goes next and wanted to drop a post to thank all of you, especially my volunteers and @Alex Pfeffer for giving me the tools and confidence to actually give this a try - especially at the end of last year when I was starting to have doubts about pushing on with this new phase of the community! It's just another confirmation to me that the Audio Artist community is awesome and so unique in the support it provides - it's a pleasure to be part of it and to be in all of your corners as you do awesome things on your journeys!

So I was talking to good ol ChatGPT earlier tonight and had asked it about strategies for contacting publishers. It mentioned using cut versions of my music and that got me thinking as I don’t think I’ve heard of doing that before. Part of its reasoning was my track are too long (2:30-3:00, doesn’t seem too long to me 😂) and people make their decisions within the first 10-15 seconds. I know that’s true. I recognize it’s a bot so I’m skeptical to put all my eggs in that basket. So naturally I came here to see what people think about sending different versions in a demo reel. Would love to hear any feedback in this area as I’m still working to get my first placement!