How to Write a Hit Song

Covering all the essentials of craft and marketing for launching and sustaining a long, successful writing career, this cutting-edge revision contains an exclusive interview with Oscar-winning songwriter Melissa Etheridge - "I Need to Wake Up" - and shows you, step by step, how to write a hit song.

Molly-Ann Leikin (Santa Barbara, CA) has dozens of gold and platinum records, an Emmy nomination, and is a Eurovision finalist ("American Idol" in Europe.) Consulting one-on-one, Molly helps writers find the right writing partners, then market their work. Over 5 000 of her clients have songs in movies, commercials, on TV shows and CDs.