The year was – I think – 2000. The Backstreet Boys, formerly the leaders of the latest wave of boy band success, were being lapped by the younger N Sync and their double-diamond “No Strings Attached.”
I headed into a writer room with Brian White (Holding Out Hope To You, Rough and Ready) and Don Koch… 
Archive for 2006
Christmas Without You
Remembering
The smell of urine and Mr.Clean clogged the white tiled hallways. I dreaded visiting the home every Sunday after lunch. He lived in a place that smelled of ripe cucumbers and pine trees once. He was strong then. Six and a half feet of street boxer. Three and a half pounds of banker gray matter…
Ruined Christmas
When I was eighteen I read Carpe Diem, Seize The Day by Tony Campolo. It didn’t change my life immediately. It changed the way I thought about my life first. It began me wondering about what my life should be about. It gave me permission to dream of a life larger than the cul-de-sac in…
Nothing Comfortable
I’ve added a few sections of scripture this week to the already long list of passages that confuse or chap me. It’s comforting – to me at least – to know I’m not the only who has this bad experience again and again with the “good book.” Last night, while baby sitting Brian’s kids,…
Can I Record My Own Music, Please
I started my life in the music business at a publishing company. Publishing companies own and administer the right to songs.
A song’s ownership (and income) is divided into two equal parts: Writer share and Publisher share. Most writers can’t get a larger piece of the pie than this on their first publishing deal. Because I…
I’m Trying To Sell You Stuff
The Washington Post says Uncle Sam is cracking down on “word-of-mouth” marketing.
The Federal Trade Commission yesterday said that companies engaging in word-of-mouth marketing, in which people are compensated to promote products to their peers, must disclose those relationships.
In a staff opinion issued yesterday, the consumer protection agency weighed in for the first time on the…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
