Where else do you start? Welcome to my blog. This is a little intimidating... I feel as if I have to use words with more than one syllable, comment on philosophy, religion, politics and culture. Well, that may happen occasionally, but this blog will always be about songs and songwriting.
The name? Schparkenmusik? I don't want to spawn any urban legends, so here it is, straight from the horse's keyboard. Our first puppy and my grandma. Grandma was German and spoke German to us sometimes - usually when she was cussing at us for playing in the cow pasture. So I often heard the lovely German sounds, like "sch", as in the Wayne Newton classic Danke Schoen. (Or in "scheiss.) We named our puppy Sparky. (My Grandma's name was Hildagard.) Sparky had European lineage, and when we registered her with the AKA, my husband and I called her Rebel Rouser vom Schparkenholz. And when it came to choosing a name for my publishing, Schparkenholz morphed in to Schparkenmusik.
That's the story behind Schparkenmusik.
Little did I know that the first rule for choosing a publishing name is to "use your name so that people can find you and pay you." E.g., Wendy Wills Music. The second rule is to choose a name people can pronounce. shpar-ken-MU-zik.
