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JULIE MOONEY

writers lifelineA freelance writer and editor, Julie Mooney has worked in association with Atchity Editorial/Entertainment Inc. since 1996. She earned her Master of Arts in Sociocultural Anthropology from the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC in 1994, and her Bachelor of Arts in Social Science from the University of Maryland, College Park MD in 1988.

Julie ghost-wrote Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura's autobiography, I Aint Got Time to Bleed (Villard, 1999--thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list) and ghost-wrote, with title-page credit, his treatise on government, Do I Stand Alone? (Pocket Books, 2000.) She also wrote and edited the retrospective coffee table bookRipley's Believe It or Not. (Black Dog & Leventhal, 1999) and Ripley's Believe It or Not! Book of the Strange, Inexplicable, Unusual and Bizarre (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2002.)

Through AEI's Writers' Lifeline program, Julie Mooney coaches writers in developing the characters and storylines of their novels and screenplays. Additionally, she has written numerous nonfiction book proposals for AEI's clients.

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literary management Jesse 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 management Steve 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 management John 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.