Julie Long has always made her living writing – except when she interned at an ad agency, where she wrote and didn’t get paid. But they ended up hiring her, so that actually paid off, too. Eventually, she ventured out on her own as a freelance writer. Today, she is also a published author.
Julie co-authored BABY: An Owner’s Manual (Broadway Books), a humorous book of operating instructions for new parents, which went into its second printing just four months after its release and remains a perennial favorite baby gift. Her story “The Worm” appears in Chicken Soup for the Fisherman’s Soul, one of just 88 stories selected from more than 1,500 submissions, and in Chicken Soup’s Older & Wiser: Our 101 Best Stories. She also contributed two stories for Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur’s Soul, has ghostwritten a business book on selling, and co-authored the business parable Fat, Dumb and Lazy and the self-improvement guide A Mouthful of Truth: The real deal on food and eating.
Her latest publishing endeavor is in the fiction arena. She has completed Maharishiville (a New Age twist on the age-old question: Can you ever really go home again?), and is at work on a second novel. She has also written a memoir about her father’s death when she was nine. Her humor essays have appeared in Pittsburgh newspapers, and her work for corporate clients has won several awards.
Julie is a long-standing member of Pennwriters, co-coordinator of the Pennwriters 2011 Conference, and a charter member of Chapter CH of the P.E.O. Sisterhood.
Born and raised in Iowa, in a small town with a bandstand in the middle of the square, Julie lived for several years in southern California, where she never did find the center of town. Today she lives on a farm in Pennsylvania with her husband and two English bulldogs.
