Second Voice Press
Fiction and nonfiction from a band director, educator, and storyteller. Because the people making the music matter even more than the notes on the page.
Nonfiction
Practical guides and honest preparation for music educators and students — written by someone who has lived this work from both sides of the podium.
Published
Nonfiction · Band Directors
A Practical Guide to Diagnosing, Tuning, and Rebuilding Your Band Program
No one teaches you how to take apart a band program — and put it back together better. This is the book they never taught you in music ed. From culture and curriculum to recruitment, rehearsal strategy, marching band, scheduling, and burnout prevention, Under the Hood is a practical, personal guide to building a program that doesn't just run, but runs well. Includes a full appendix of tools, checklists, and reflection prompts free to copy and adapt.
Coming 2026
Nonfiction · Student Guide
What Students Think, What Actually Happens, and How to Succeed When It Counts
Built from surveys and candid conversations with collegiate faculty across the country, this is the honest preparation every aspiring music major deserves — and rarely gets. What does music school actually demand? What do professors wish students already knew? What does a sustainable career in music truly look like? Clear-eyed, compassionate, and essential reading before stepping onto any music school campus.
Fiction · Latest Release
The Second Voice Series · Book Three (ongoing)
Book Three of an ongoing series.
Michael and Lena are building a life together — and their hearts keep pulling toward Cadence Monroe, a quiet, gifted clarinetist navigating the foster system while deciding whether belonging is worth the risk of hoping again.
Set against Franklin High School's most ambitious summer yet, this is a novel about what happens when musicians become family — and what it costs, and what it gives, to keep showing up for each other.
A testament to what can grow from grief, what can rise from silence, and what it means to find your voice again.
Also in the Second Voice Series
Ongoing Series
An ongoing series set at a high school band program in small-town Pennsylvania — about music, loss, legacy, and the voices that linger long after the final note fades. Three books published, with more on the way.
Book One
A band director uncovers a forgotten story. A community begins to remember. The opening movement sets everything in motion with quiet tension and a manuscript that was never meant to be found.
PublishedBook Two
The story grows larger than anyone expected. Students step into a legacy. A new composer arrives. The tension builds — and the community must decide what it truly means to honor someone never properly heard.
PublishedBook Three
Chosen family, second chances, and a new voice finding its way home. The story deepens and opens — with more still to come.
PublishedBooks Four – Eight
The Second Voice Series is an ongoing work. Additional volumes are planned — continuing the story of Franklin, its students, and the music that holds them together.
The Author
"Not everyone gets to be heard the first time.
Some voices need help to be heard at all."
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