Billie Kelpin

I'm a nobody writer with a story that was this close to being made into a film--seriously--this close. The screenwriter and other author collaborator had life get in the way and blah-da-de-blah. I have a treatment of the story which is quite different than the short story that was featured in Lost Coast Review Literary Magazine.

I'm going to be 75 in February, so it would just be so cool and helpful to my family to have this adapted to the screen. I can't do it. The arc of the treatment was the point where the screenwriter got stuck, but that was based on the treatment and not the original story.

My daughter is an actor in Burbank, but you know how it is.--your adult kids have their own paths.

So in this world of shams and facades, that's my introduction. I received the email that invited introduction, so blame this the open invitation.

The story is here--short version. The long version is more literary, and the treatment is quite different than either the short story and the longer version. The story is registered with the Literary Guild, whatever good that would do.

My motto is from Tennyson's Ulysses: "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" so how could I not write this blurb?