About Julie

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 and a writing coach, workshop leader and presenter.

Julie co-authored BABY: An Owner's Manual, 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 submissios. She also contributed two stories for Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul. She has ghostwritten a business book on selling, which was published in 2006, and has completed a novel, Maharishiville (which was a semi-finalist in the James Jones First Novel Fellowship 2007), as well as 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 the co-founder of Fat Plum, which provides "Juicy solutions for today's writer” through coaching, workshops, editing/critiquing services and nifty products.  She also presents on writing and publishing to various groups and associations.

Julie was born and raised in Iowa, in a small town with a bandstand in the middle of the square. She lived several 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 Engligh bulldogs.