Hello all

I am hoping to get some savvy advice from the folk here. I signed a three year publishing agreement with a local publisher Sheer in May 2015 so now I have a chance to make some changes.

I have not received a cent from these publishers in the three years (and only one statement with Zeros all over it...) nor have they ever contacted me regarding any "opportunities or offers" for my songs.

So I looked at "doing my own publishing" and I don't even know right now what this entails but it looks like there are huge admin hoops to jump through to get this done. I contacted Sheer about "not renewing" my publishing contract and they have asked that I supply a complete schedule of all the songs I have written, along with co-writers and splits, in the three years...more admin for what return I do not know....I have written probably over 200 songs and instrumentals in the last three years.

What to do that involves the least admin and headache:

1. Do I just leave my Sheer publishing contract as it is "in case" anything ever goes big/gets selected at SongTradr/ gets played on the radio?

2. Do I cancel my Sheer publishing contract and just not have a publisher?

3. Do I do the admin to set up myself as my own publisher?

4. Do I find another publisher?

I do wish this was simple....Any advice is much appreciated.

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