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.

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

I’ve been going trough and cleaning up comic pages of my hybrid novel “A Film About Billy.” It alternates between comics and prose with about 88pages of comic and 50someodd thousand words. A friend of mine is doing an animated preview kind of thing that I’m going to send out to agents with my query. Oh, and while I’m at it here’s a story summery: A Film About Billy is a novel that alternates between comics and prose to tell the story of Collin Heart—a kid editing a documentary about his dead friend during an international suicide epidemic.After high school Collin leaves the military base where his father and friends live. He moves in with his Grandmother to work on his film and wallow in depressed nostalgia. Billy the first friend of Collin’s to have died, let alone commit suicide. But, as the epidemic amps up, Collin is forced to recognize that it’s not just about him and his friend….or, at least not in the way he had thought. The Mint Foundation, who gave him an artist’s grant to work on his film seem to have ties to his father’s work with the military, and somehow, Collin, his friends, and his documentary are part of a last-ditch hair brained scheme to save humanity.In a world that has chosen to die, this is the story of the last person that wants to carry on, but can’t.
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I’ve been going trough and cleaning up comic pages of my hybrid novel “A Film About Billy.” It alternates between comics and prose with about 88pages of comic and 50someodd thousand words. A friend of mine is doing an animated preview kind of thing that I’m going to send out to agents with my query.

Oh, and while I’m at it here’s a story summery:

A Film About Billy is a novel that alternates between comics and prose to tell the story of Collin Heart—a kid editing a documentary about his dead friend during an international suicide epidemic.

After high school Collin leaves the military base where his father and friends live. He moves in with his Grandmother to work on his film and wallow in depressed nostalgia. Billy the first friend of Collin’s to have died, let alone commit suicide. But, as the epidemic amps up, Collin is forced to recognize that it’s not just about him and his friend….or, at least not in the way he had thought.

The Mint Foundation, who gave him an artist’s grant to work on his film seem to have ties to his father’s work with the military, and somehow, Collin, his friends, and his documentary are part of a last-ditch hair brained scheme to save humanity.

In a world that has chosen to die, this is the story of the last person that wants to carry on, but can’t.