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Kenneth Atchity (B.A.
Georgetown, Ph.D. Yale), “the story merchant,” has authored books,
screenplays, poems, short stories, articles, and reviews as well as produced
films for video, television, and theater. Since resigning from his tenured
position as a professor of comparative literature at Occidental College,
Ken has created his own Type C dream lifestyle around the work he loves
the most: storytelling. As a writer, literary manager, motion picture producer,
and entrepreneur who divides his time between New York and Los Angeles—as
well as parts as far-flung as Manila, Vancouver, Rome, Rio de Janeiro and
his native Louisiana—he acquires, conceives, develops, finances, and
produces stories of his own and of the storytellers he mentors through The
Writer’s Lifeline, Inc. (www.thewriterslifeline.com);
manages through Atchity Entertainment International, Inc. (www.aeionline.com);
and partners with through Creative Media Group, Inc. In AEI’s first
five years of operation, the company made $27 million in sales for first-time
writers and produced Joe Somebody, directed by John Pasquin (The
Santa Clause), starring Tim Allen and Jim Belushi; and Life or Something
Like It, directed by Stephen Herek (101 Dalmatians, Mr. Holland’s
Opus, and The Three Musketeers), starring Angelina Jolie and
Ed Burns; both based on scripts by John Scott Shepherd, his partner in Warp
& Weft Productions.
Ken’s first study, as a teacher of literature, myth, dream, creative
writing, and communications management, was focused on the continuum from
dreaming to creative thinking to communicating to new realities (leading
to his cofounding of the journal Dreamworks: An Interdisciplinary Study
of the Relationship between Dream and Art, published by Human Sciences
Press from 1980 to 1986); and then to A Writer’s Time: A Guide to
the Creative Process, from Vision through Revision (W.W. Norton). The
recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mellon Foundation, and the American
Council of Learned Societies, he served as a Fulbright professor at the
University of Bologna, teaching American literature and institutions.
Since his career transition, Ken’s numerous films for television have
included Champagne for Two, The Rose Café, The Amityville Horror,
and Shadow of Obsession. AEI has managed literary and dramatic rights
for Ripley’s Believe-It-or-Not! and The Learning Annex.
Ken served as writer and on-camera host for Columbus: The Voyage of Discovery,
and has given lectures, seminars, and workshops for corporations and universities
throughout the United States and Europe on aspects of myth, storytelling,
Type C personality career transit, time- and mind-management, and creative
thinking for writers, artists, entrepreneurs, professionals, and businesspeople.
In addition to Ripley’s and The Learning Annex, Ken’s
clients have included Steve Alten (Meg, The Trench, Domain, Goliath,
Resurrection, Primal Waters, The Loch), Tracy Price-Thompson (Black
Coffee, Chocolate Sangria, A Woman’s Worth), April Christofferson
(The Protocol, Patent to Kill, Buffalo Medicine), Gary and Joy Lundberg
(I Don’t Have to Make Everything All Better), Shirley Palmer
(Lioness, Anvil, Danger Zone, The Trade), John Robert Marlow (Nano),
James Michael Pratt (The Last Valentine, The Lighthouse Keeper, Ticket
Home, Paradise Bay), John Scott Shepherd (Henry’s List of Wrongs,
The Kill Martin Club, Life or Something Like It, The Dead Father’s
Guide to Sex & Marriage), and Governor Jesse Ventura (I Ain’t
Got Time to Bleed, Do I Stand Alone?).
Kenneth welcomes comments and questions, and can be reached at:
jp@aeionline.com
or by snail mail at:
c/o AEI
9601 Wilshire Boulevard
Box 1202
Beverly Hills CA 90210
For information regarding any phase of your writing career, visit the websites listed right or www.thestorymerchant.com
Contact by snail-mail:
Ken Atchity
The Writer’s Lifeline, Inc.
510 S. Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phone: (323) 932–0905;
E-mail: amcthewriterslifel@aol.com
Allworth Press books written by Kenneth Atchity:
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