"For too long, we've been an underrepresented and misunderstood group and I want my book to change that fact," says Courtney Brandt.

Brandt is the author of The Line, a celebration of the marching band experience.

She has taken a young adult novel writing course with Mediabistro and has had two young adult novels published.

The Line is a self-published novel in a series of five books. The other novel, the next in the series, is titled, A Fine Line.

Says Brandt, "It was about bringing a fictional voice to band geeks everywhere."

--William Battaglia

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