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ANDREA MCKEOWN
writers lifelineChief 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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literary managementDr. Nicolas Bazan’s "fable of music and the mind," Una Vida, will appear from Five Star Publishing (Linda Radke).

Born in the tiny town of Los Sarmientos in Tucuman, Argentina, Nicolas Bazan's defining moment was witnessing an aunt suffer a seizure while walking him to a music lesson when he was a young boy, putting him on the path to becoming one of the worlds premier neuroscientists.
literary managementJesse Ventura - We worked with him to find the "mythic substructure" of his life adventure culminating in being elected governor of Minnesota - and built the book, which became a New York Times bestseller, around the "Labors of Hercules."
literary managementSteve Alten - After a few months' work with Writer's Lifeline, he went from being broke to having a million dollar studio deal, and a two million dollar book deal to launch his career as a New York Times bestseller.
literary managementJohn Scott Shepherd - He wanted to write it as a screenplay, but we advised him to do the novel first--and it sold in manuscript for $1.6 million to New Line Cinema.