The Music City Mantra

About the Book

This book is the second effort of this songwriter turned novelist. After retiring from his position as president and CEO of a seven-state insurance agency, he took up songwriting as his next career challenge and now has a catalogue of over two hundred songs, forty of which have been recorded by various country artists. After five years of jousting with the windmills of the greedy power-hungry, megalomaniac music moguls that come and go like tumble weeds before a prairie wind, he has once again retired, this time from the frenetic, backstabbing, dog-eat-dog world of the Nashville music industry, where the question is always “What have you done for me today?” and the mantra is “You scratch my back while I stab yours.” He’s now living the quiet life with his wife, Maelene, and their four cats in the serenity of the Woodlands, Texas.

About the Author

This author was formerly president of an interestate insurance agency with seventy-five agents and offices in six states. After retiring; following a dream of his youth; he took up songwriting as a means of keeping his mind active. His song catalogue now contains over two hundred songs; thirty of which have made it onto records by various country music artists. His songwriting efforts eventually led him to Nashville in search a publishing company to represent him and promote his songs. This book is inspired by his experiences in the dog eat -dog world of the, megalomaniac mogul controlled, mecca of country music.