I haven’t blogged in awhile partly because I am currently writing two books. One book, COVIC 19, isn’t necessarily for publication, it is for me to process and someday look back at, maybe share with the grandkids. Since the virus has been the biggest thing in my life besides seeing clients again, and private issues, I haven’t had tons of other things to blog about. Every now and then I share a chapter or two from COVID 19.
The other book is the story of another “Haven” girl. It will be similar but also different from “She’s On Her Own”, not just because their stories are different, but because they have very different personalities and voices. This one skips around a lot with some twists. I think it will be more of a memoir. She’s On Her Own was too, really, very little was fictionalized.
So. The only other interesting thing that is happening right now is the music. The album is out. Released. Available on pretty much all music platforms. Scott and Chad and also Dave have put hours upon hours of promoting and marketing. We have a virtual street team of people who help us share on social media. We are making lyric videos and music videos and do “live performances” of the songs. We started a You Tube channel. We paid to get some reviews and they are very positive. We are getting a lot of views and great feedback. The sales are…. ok. We are in the process of pressing vinyl, 200 collector copies that will come out in August. We are promoting one song at a time as we go. We have no idea when we will get to perform live or what that will look like. We anticipated more radio attention and more interviews, etc. That isn’t happening, most likely due to covid, but who knows?
I am mostly just involved in the “live videos” (besides sharing on my facebook and instagram pages). This is a new experience for me. Chad lays down the acoustic guitar video track and sends it to Dave. Dave records his lead vocals and sends it back to Chad. Chad videos himself singing his parts, some leads, some third above harmony. He sends it to us. We listen with headphones and sing our parts, separately. I either double up the third above with Chad or sing the fifth above harmony. Scott sings the third below. I have never sang for a “camera” before. It is not easy! Then I have to completely lower my expectations for how I sound singing a harmony part by myself when I play it back. We send it all to Chad and he puts the videos together and then blends it before we “release it”. It is supposed to look like we did a zoom call and just all sang together, sort of like the Brady Bunch or something. That’s what the artists do that you see like that. It isn’t live.
So we practice and we watch and we share and we promote and we wait. I believe in the music, the sounds, the harmonies, the vocals, but most of all, the messages. I want the music to be successful. I think for all of us, that means that many will be blessed by it and enjoy it, be uplifted by it.
So help us out with that on all our platforms and websites and social media. 
dianegclark 