Linda Stout

I just started up with an agent, Gary Dallaire of AMASS Entertainment. I'm embarrassed to say my press kit had been a bio, biz cards and a bunch of (good) press clippings or copies. It had good press, but wasn't pretty. I knew Quark, but it wasn't working on my computer. I knew I could make a poster in Adobe InDesign (we got a Mac G5 for $500 from my sister's husband after an ad agency went out of business, loaded with software). But on really short notice, I didn't see learning a brand new program, though I think I'll like InDesign, so hired a designer, wrote and rewrote copy with edits from my agent. We were doing posters, and I got my sweetie, a professional photographer, to make photo montages of me performing, set to two songs. He's tired. And rehearsals and gigs, can't forget them. I hardly had time to eat, sleep or breathe. I had to go to work, too, as an editor, but that was easy compared to running a music business.