I wasn’t planning to send a newsletter today, but my flight to Cincinnati is late. Shocker. And then I got an email from 54 Below last night about a two-day flash sale for tickets to my album release shows next week—so I thought, why not say a quick hi?
It’s seven days until release day, and I couldn’t be more excited. I want to thank all of you who pre-ordered my CD. It was honestly a little overwhelming, and I’m so grateful. Many of you should be receiving your CDs today or tomorrow. And if you haven't ordered yet, you can still grab one here.
I’ve been trying to document the whole process, and I even made a little video of opening the first box.
The first thing I did after making that video was prep the CDs to ship to Amazon. Each CD needs a special label printed and placed over the bar code — and it takes a while to get them into Amazon's warehouse. Fingers crossed they'll be there by release day.
It's way more fun fulfilling pre-order CDs and autographing them for you, my devoted friends and fans. I ordered 400 bubble mailers, bought special oil paint markers for signing, and I would be absolutely lost without my Dymo label maker.
You may remember in my last issue I mentioned wearing my “record producer hat” and that I was tempted to order myself an actual hat that says that. Well, a week later, my friend Kara Cutruzzula sent me exactly that hat, with a lovely note. I am obsessed with it. I wear it while I’m doing CD orders. I wear it to the post office and the UPS store. It just makes me feel like a record producer, and I love it. Kara, many, many thanks.
One of the tools available to independent artists is Spotify for Artists, which among other things allows you to submit a song for possible playlist consideration. I submitted 'Fearless,' the song Stephen wrote for me, and I have no idea if it'll be chosen. It's unlikely, but a girl can dream…
If you use Spotify, I’d love it if you pre-saved the album. It helps Spotify know there’s interest—and there’s a fun countdown showing the hours and seconds until the album drops. If you pre-save, it’ll arrive on your Spotify at midnight on March 20th.
Pre-save The Wizard and I on Spotify
If you'd like to come to my album release concerts next week, 54 Below is running a two-day flash sale today and tomorrow only—35% off tickets with the code CALLAWAY35.
I’m thrilled to share that Stephen Schwartz himself will be joining me on opening night, March 18th—he’s going to play “Fearless” for me again, which was such a thrill when we did it together for the first time at NJPAC a couple of weeks ago. Here’s a little clip. (Thanks to my friend Lauren for naughtily capturing this moment from her seat.)
Singing “Fearless” at NJPAC with Stephen Schwartz (clip)
I’m so grateful that 54 Below livestreams their shows—they do a beautiful job, and I hope you’ll join me from your homes for one or both of these evenings.
On March 20th, the album release date, I’m live-streaming The Wizard and I at 7pm ET. On Sunday the 22nd, I’m doing my Sondheim show To Steve With Love on what would have been his 96th birthday, and I’ll be live-streaming that one as well.
It’s a bit daunting to be working on both shows at the same time. Hopefully I will not confuse my Stephens!
Livestream tickets — The Wizard and I, March 20
Livestream tickets — To Steve With Love, March 22
That’s it for this issue of Between Flights—I need to go finish packing!
Thank you, as always, for your support. It means the world to me.
Have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll be back next Friday!
xoxo Liz
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