| ANDREA
MCKEOWN |
 Chief
Operating Officer (COO) Andrea McKeown was born in Kansas
City, where she studied writing and literature at UMKC. She
joined AEI, Writer's Lifeline's management and production
affiliate, working as a story and script analyst on "Shadow
of Obsession" (NBC-Saban Entertainment, starring Veronica
Hammel and based on the novel Unwanted Attentions by
K. K. Beck).
When AEI expanded into literary management in 1996, Andrea
moved into an editorial capacity in the Writer's Lifeline
Program in addition to her duties with AEI Production-Management.
As a senior editor, she discovered and was associated with
Rick Lynch's 180 Seconds at Willow Park, which was
sold to Newline Cinema and to Dove Books. She was instrumental
in reshaping and editing James Michael Pratt's The
Last Valentine, which sold to St. Martin's Press for
"huge six figures." and to the Literary Guild and Doubleday
Book Club at auction. Pratt went on to write The Lighthouse
Keeper, Ticket Home, and The Piano Man.
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