Julie Whitney

Julie Whitney is a public relations professional with forty years of experience

in public relations and marketing, having worked on both the agency and client

side as well as in the television industry. Her company, Phillippi-Whitney Communications,

LLC, founded in 2000, represents both large and small clients in a

wide variety of industries. She has promoted dozens of authors throughout her

career, often supplementing the efforts of the internal PR teams of their publishers.

She also works as on-camera talent, appearing in both television commercials

and video podcasts. She even appeared as an extra in the movie Grease,

which was shot on location in the summer of 1977 in Los Angeles.

Julie lives in Cincinnati with her husband Dan, a corporate pilot upon whom the

character of Captain Dan is based. A naval aviator and USNA grad, he flew the

P-3 Orion on active duty, and has flown a Gulfstream G100 (Astra) for the past

thirteen years. With four grown children, they are now empty nesters and love

spending time with their black Lab, Brody. They also enjoy traveling, boating, golfing,

and all types of physical fitness. Whitney's first book, Astra The Lonely Airplane was

one of only 6 picture books selected as a finalist in the highly esteemed 2022

NIEA (National Independence Excellence Awards).

Her newest book, Astra In Hollywood, the second book in the Astra The Lonely Airplane series

is the winner of the Best Overall Picture Book Category in the Hindi's Libraries 2024

Females of Fiction Contest.