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Julie Whitney

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Whitney is a public relations professional with more than 35 years of experience, having worked on both the agency and client side and also 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.
Julie appeared as an Extra in the movie “Grease” which was shot on location in the summer of 1977 in Los Angeles.

She lives in Cincinnati with her husband Dan, a corporate pilot, (Captain Dan in the book), who as a naval aviator and USNA grad,  flew the P-3 Orion on active duty, and who has flown a Gulfstream G100 (Astra) for the past 13 years.  With four grown children, they are now empty nesters, and love spending time with their Black Lab Brody, and also enjoy traveling, boating, golfing, and all types of physical fitness. 

Julie's book, Astra the Lonely Airplane, was selected as a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards.

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Astra the Lonely Airplane

$2.99 - $24.95
written by Julie Whitney

illustrated by Michelle Simpson

Astra is a sleek, shiny airplane who loves to go flying with her best friend, Captain Dan. But when Astra and Dan suddenly find themselves out of a job, Astra must wait in her lonely hangar for a new owner to come along and give them somewhere to go! As the weeks turn into months and the right buyer still doesn’t appear, Astra begins to wonder: Will she ever get to fly again?
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More about Astra the Lonely Airplane

"Astra The Lonely Airplane, is based upon an idea that came to me after my husband’s job as Chief Pilot of a G100 came to a grinding halt during the COVID-19 pandemic. I sat in her beautiful interior one last time and openly wept, feeling sick to my stomach wondering what would become of her, and how long she would sit there in the hangar before being flown again. Thankfully the real-life Astra has a happy ending as well." - From the author, Julie Whitney.

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