A Film About Billy: For Us By Us Juvenile Fiction

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raw ink afabWe’re doing layout work for A Film About Billy right now, and it’s taking me back a bit.

I’ve hardly put this project down my entire adult life. I started the story when I was a teenager, and on the 6th of next month I’ll be 25. It’s hard not to feel crazy when I think about it—about how I…

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So here is the final video for querying agents. We’ll see how it goes. Pass it along if you like it. 

-dan

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Thank you for your consideration. To contact Daniel McCloskey click HERE, or email aFilmAboutBilly{at}gmail.com

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a tumblr for my book

I set up a tumblr for my book A Film About Billy, with a video, the first 10pages, and an extended summary. Still needs some polish, but going well.

Advice

I got some solid advice on my novel manuscript A Film About Billy. I gave the manuscript to my friend Bill somewhere around a year and a half ago, and I was surprised to hear that he finished it just as I was preparing to submit it to agents. I’m going to have to do some serious reflection about how the advice might effect a rework of the piece, if that rework would be better than what I have now, and how much better.

Hmm.

-d

Here’s a rough sample of a video my friend Lewis Lehe is putting together to help me pitch my hybrid novel A Film About Billy. It’s still rough, but I’m very excited. I’ll be sending it out to a handful of carefully selected agents in the near future with my fingers crossed.

-d