20 year career author, journalist and screenwriter

Author, journalist, novelist, film-maker and musician Julian Phillips has created hundreds of successful creative projects for Kuma’s Kitchen clients, online since 2004. Semi-retired at age 55-years, the writer earned a BA-degree in Communications in 1981, and was a paid career-writer since before that. Professional work has included years as a newspaper reporter, editor, freelancing for magazines, radio-news, work writing and producing industrial and educational videos, interviews and moderator-host-MC, and teaching classes. Julian is a fifth-generation Californian and has spent most of his life in San Luis Obispo county, with wife Carol and their son Preston Laverne, currently a forensic courtroom animator in San Francisco. The writer focuses on high-quality, well-researched fact-based journalism styles, and positive dramatic story forms, as entertainment.