2018 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition Quarterfinalists Announced
by ScreenCraft on January 16, 2019
Listed below are the quarterfinalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition, selected from over 1200 submissions. We’re excited to be exploring these excellent books and to have received a slate of compelling works.
This year's jury is comprised of a literary agent from Abrams Artists Agency, a publishing coordinator from The Gersh Agency, the editor of Red Hen Press, a manager at MXN Entertainment, and a New York Times best-selling author.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcement of the semifinalists, finalists and winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
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Here are the quarterfinalists:
| The Goddess of Liberty: The Spear Beneath the Tree | Samuel Wenger |
| The Big Buff | Jack Halliday |
| #Lazarus10 | Andrew Rajan |
| 30 Red Dresses | John Burger |
| 4 Years Trapped in My Mind Palace | John Burger |
| A Christmas Wish | Charlie Wetzel |
| A Dose of Deception | Mark Koenig |
| A Hundred Weddings | Cathy Cruise |
| A Knife in the Fog | Bradley Harper |
| A Life Without Water | Marci Clark |
| A Northern Rebel | John Schaffer |
| A Song for Leonard | Christopher Canning |
| A Special Breed of Warrior | Joseph Mujwit |
| A Spilling of Stars | Mike Cramer |
| A Splintered Step | Marian Exall |
| A Tightening Noose and Cities on Hills | Brian Wells |
| A Time for Kindness | John McCrite |
| A World Such as Heaven Intended | Amanda Lauer |
| Abracadabra | Jean-Pierre Dorleac |
| Ahab, a Love Story | Stephen Melillo |
| American Phoenix | Jane Hampton Cook |
| Among the Gravestones | Laurel Pardo & Janelle Leonard |
| An Irish Lullaby | Louis Manzo |
| Andrea Wells and the Defenders of Earth | Bryan Kelsey |
| Andy Beane and the Catkins' Tale | Judy Delmain |
| Annaliese, Sound and True | Lindy Carter |
| Anomaly: The Legacy of Adya | Dayna Dunbar & Julia Padawer |
| Apprentice to Gutenberg | Benjamin Davis |
| Assassin Nation: The Platinum Assassin | Craig Lew |
| Atlas | Lior Torenberg |
| Audrey Appleton and the Nightmares of Everdream | Tom Grey |
| Avery Colt Is A Snake, A Thief, A Liar | Ron Austin |
| Back to the Morgue | LA Fields & Tyson Kadwell |
| Bargain On The Prairie | Rhonda Eichman |
| Beautiful Eyes | Jennifer Dickinson |
| Becoming Hero | Jen Finelli |
| Becoming Unmarried: Navigating Divorce with Grace (for the most part) and Humor | Tami Jayne |
| Behind Me Lies the Desert | Kevin Neill |
| Being Friends With Billy Logan | Rusty Lofgren |
| Betsy and the Emperor | Staton Rabin |
| Beware The Mermaids | Carrie Talick |
| Big and Bad and How I Got My Life! Back | Anna Scotti |
| Bigz Uneasy | Jeremiah Foley III |
| Bistro Swamp Mystery | Georgia Gates |
| Blackwell | Alexandrea Weis & Lucas Astor |
| Blood and Discord: Sang et la Discorde | Ricardo Fleshman |
| Blood on the Snow | George Perreault |
| Bloodfire and the Legend of Paradox Pond | Rosemarie Sheperd |
| Blowback | Eric Murphy |
| Borrowing a Moose Head from Cole Porter | G. Lloyd Helm |
| Brazen Violations | Jonathan Macpherson |
| Bribing Saint Anthony | Rita Moreau |
| Broken Soul to Broken Soul | Aud Supplee |
| Brothers | Kirk Weddell |
| Bullets and Bosses Don'Hve Friends: How To Navigate Tough Challenges In the Workplace | Natonia Crowe |
| California Son: A Liam Sol Mystery | Timothy Burgess |
| Carnival Lilly | Kathy Johnson |
| Carrying Independence | Karen A. Chase |
| Casino Perilous | John Villesvik |
| Cezanne's Quarry | Barbara Pope |
| Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security | Robert Guffey |
| Chance and Consequence | Sylvia Smoller |
| Charon's Blade | Michael J. Alcorn |
| Chasing Dragonflies | Raya Khedker |
| Chasing Shadows | K.N. Salustro |
| Chimera | Dona Lee |
| Cimarrona | Sara Monteagudo |
| Cirque du Phantastique | Claire Clements |
| Citizen Cárdenas | Steve Cole |
| Cold Reckoning | J. R. Geary |
| Collective Awakening | Pat Finley |
| Come Again | Rick Novak |
| Coming Darkness | Susan Terry |
| Compulsive | Lia Fairchild |
| Conjure Seven | Erik Day |
| Cool Side of the Pillow | Gregory G. Allen |
| Corinth | Gene Lassers |
| Crazy Woman | Lee Atterbury |
| Coratoa The Roanoke Iteration | Roger Henry |
| Crowsong for the Stricken | Ted Morrissey |
| Curse of Cortes | Guy Morris |
| Deja vu All Over Again | Larry Brill |
| Dangerous Dreams: A Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke | Mike Rhynard |
| Dark Waters | Sasha Tomaszycki |
| Darlin the Lost Twin | Charles Loebbaka |
| Darling Girl | Terry Watkins |
| Daughter of Destiny: Guinevere's Tale Book 1 | Nicole Evelina |
| Dear Bernie, I'm Glad You're Dead | Elizabeth Crowens |
| Death Card Series | Joan Peck |
| Decoys | Karen A. Chase |
| Deep Water Blues | Richard Guimond |
| Descending Thirds | Nicole Conn |
| Desert Runner | Dawn Chapman |
| Destiny's Grace | Kirby Freeman |
| Devotion | Christopher Acker |
| Die to Live Again | David Crane |
| Dire Road | Alyssa Milani |
| Dream Big | Charles Haner |
| Dreams Thrown Away | Dilsa Saunders Bailey |
| Duplicitous | Nicholas James |
| Eagle Rock Gothic | Jason Gelt |
| East of Mecca | Sheila Flaherty |
| Eden | Jeanne Blasberg |
| Edgewise | Jan Stites |
| Emerson Page and Where the Light Enters | Christa Avampato |
| Eternity's Account: Kingdom Lost | Julie Bryson & Catherine Sharpe |
| Every Breath I Take | John Trigonis |
| Evidence of Grace | Candace Armstrong |
| Exiles of Titan | David Christmas |
| Exit | Julian Boote |
| Feisty Nuns | Rita Moreau |
| Finding Hollow Earth | Anastasnia Campbell |
| Fly Away Little Bird | Gerald Shovlin |
| For Her Sins | mark wooden |
| Force No One | Daniel Ross |
| Forcible entry | David Thyssen |
| Forever Drifting Through the Great River of the Sky | Safdar Muttaqi |
| Forever Hold Your Peace | Robert Peterpaul |
| Forgotten Letters | Kirk Raeber |
| Friends Like These | Alexander Ferrar |
| Full Sun | Sandra Olson Connelly |
| Getaway Day | Ken White |
| Gettysburg by Morning | Randy O'Brien |
| Ghost on the Path | Gail Webber |
| Ghosts of Charleston | Don Upton |
| Go Home | Sohrab Homi Fracis |
| Going to Cameroon | Izzaldin Alzain |
| Gone Gorilla | Robert W. Walker |
| Good Morning Diego Garcia | Susan Joyce |
| Good Prince Will | Arthur Marziale |
| Grand Finale | Jim Pat Pounds |
| Great Encounter | Paa Mannoh |
| Grog, Destroyer of Hope | Greg Weiland |
| Hallo-tween | Lisa Nardini, Gina Nardini & Sucia Nardini, Marina Ummel |
| Happily Destroyed | Evan Purcell |
| Hawk Ryder - The Beginning of Hope | Kristin Goodman |
| Henchman | Apollo Villa-Real |
| Henry's Re-entry: Mastering the Lost Art of Crash and Burn, a Love Story | Paul Herendeen |
| Her Only Son | Shawna Platt |
| Herbs and Swerbs: A Valley Boy Coming of Age in the Early 80s | Bruce Luchsinger |
| Hero's Code | Bob Sweet |
| Hit and Run | Diane Hester |
| Hope in Paris! | Donnalyn Vojta |
| Hounded | Ellie Douglas |
| Hum | Tracy Schumer |
| I Just Wanted Love: Recovery of a Codependent, Sex and Love Addict | D.J. Burr |
| Ian and the Great Silver Dragon, A Hero is Reborn | Jim Dilyard |
| Identity Check | Richard Jones |
| Imperfect Acts | Peter Shianna |
| In My Father's Generation | Roy Rhodes |
| In Wilderness | Diane Thomas |
| Incident on the Road to Canterbury | Vince Pantalone |
| Inn Love | Whitney Sweet |
| Inspired | Robert Balentine |
| Intuition A Kylie Anderson Vacation | Kaaren Brown |
| Iron Dogs | Neil Chase |
| It's In The Blood | Maria Restivo |
| Jinx: At the Greenbrier | Deanna Edens |
| Jolly's Christmas | Ken Robb |
| Journey Into Darkness, A Story in Four Parts | Joel Moore |
| Journey Through a Land of Minor Annoyances | Al Kline |
| Just a Theory: a quantum love adventure | Annie Wood |
| Just Act Normal | Susan L. Lipson |
| Katzenjammered | Michael Crame |
| Kill Them All | David Jack Smith |
| Killing Streak | Merit Clark |
| Kissing Frogs: The Thirteenth | Jessica Grange |
| Kobomoko | Richard Guimond |
| Kudzu | Stacey Osbeck |
| Laced | Cassandra Webb |
| Last Communion | David Ryan |
| Left Right Left in Texas | Stephen White |
| Lenny | Laura McVeigh |
| Letters from a Kurd | Kae Bahar |
| Life Without Shoes: The First Father Ambrose Mystery | Emma Cyrus |
| Lily Among Thorns | C. A. Lindsay |
| Lips | Peter Gooch |
| Long Live Glosser's | Robert Jeschonek |
| Looking For Garbo | Jon Miller |
| Loss Angeles | Mathieu Cailler |
| Lost in the Fog | Michael Ostrowski |
| Louisiana Blood | Mike Donald |
| Love and Hate: In Nazi Germany | Ryan Armstrong |
| Love and Justice | Tara Kearns |
| Love. Rinse. Repeat. | Lynda Foote |
| Madame Presidentess | Nicole Evelina |
| Malika | Stewart Fergus |
| Map | Vicki Burgess |
| Mariana Wong's Summer of Love | Janna Wong Healy |
| Master of Breath | Paul Allen |
| Matter of Discretion | Donna Lee Davis |
| Mayhem in Memphis | Christine DeSmet |
| Mean Little Miracle | Tom Senning |
| Mechcraft | Brian Fitzpatrick |
| Median Gray | Bill Mesce, Jr. |
| Meet Me Halfway: Milwaukee Stories | Jennifer Morales |
| Merrily Merrily | Kyle Spence |
| Metamorphophilia | Dorian Martin |
| Money Bear | Kerry Cox |
| Mrs Saville | Ted Morrissey |
| Murder in Moscow: The Oblast Court Trial | Frank Daley |
| Murder Syndicated | Kyle Spence |
| My Beautiful Impostor: A Story of Persia, Exile, and Lies | Katayoon Zandvakili |
| My Dear Alma | Sondra Brooks |
| My Life as a Sperm : One Man's Quest to Save the World | William Whitaker |
| My MacArthur | Cindy Fazzi |
| My Name is Trouble | James Taylor & Sam Schlafer |
| Never A $7 Whore | Toni Crowe |
| Never Die Twice | Mark Jones |
| New Suburbia | Stephen Jerrome |
| Neworld Papers | KB Shaw |
| No Cowboy Required | JoAnn Sky |
| North of Here | Laurel Saville |
| Not The Jamaica We Know | Paula Lennon |
| Nowhere Girl | Susan Strecker |
| Nuns! Physics! And Gypsies! Oh No!! | Rita Moreau |
| Oaf | Flora Doone |
| Of Blood and Wine | Arthur Brown |
| Out of the Darkness by Clarissa Clarke | Clarissa Clarke |
| Overtime: To be the Best | Heath Hertel |
| Paris Orphan Escape from Evil | Charles Loebbaka |
| Paris Green | Gary Janis |
| Patchwork of Me | Gregory G. Allen |
| Perfect on Paper: The (Mis)adventures of Waverly Bryson | Maria Murnane |
| Picaro: Psychopaths, Warlords, and a Rogue Journalist on the Dark Side of History | Jeff Harmon |
| Poet Under A Soldier's Hat | E.P. Rose |
| Portrayal | Zac Loy |
| Praelium | Andrew Furstenberg |
| Prescription, Please | Mirek Brandt |
| Primetimes | Amy McCormick |
| Provectus Survival of the Fittest | M. L. Stover |
| Punk Charming | Laura Quinn |
| Race Music | Mark Herder |
| Railbak Adventures | Terry Cromwell |
| Rash, A Memoir | lisa kusel |
| Raven Nest Restribution | Alex Croft |
| Really (Almost) True Story | Joey Jones |
| Recapitulation | Izzy Hanson |
| Regen | Cassie Greutman |
| Remember the Ladies | Gina Mulligan |
| Restricted Fantasies | Kevin Kneupper |
| Return to Vienna | Cristina Pippa |
| Road Kill: A Love Story | Jefferson Moody |
| RobotWorld | Ray Verola |
| Rodger Dodger of the Planetary Patrol and the Pirates of Ganymede | Mark Sondrini |
| Ross Wellington | Brian Ellis & Mark Van Handel |
| Runaways, Renegades and Rejects: A Cookbook | Jennifer Dickinson |
| Saving Bobby: Heroes and Heroin in One Small Community | Renee Hodges |
| Saving Toby | David Carren |
| Savior | Edward Dietrich |
| Sea Legs & Fish Nets | Maria Finn |
| Sebastian and the Invisible Island | Michael Hogan |
| Secrets That We Keep | Randall Bentley |
| Seeing Eye: A day at the Fair | Liz Marshall |
| Senseless Confidential | Martin Bannon |
| Shadow Summoner | Tess Adair |
| She Called Him Raymond: A True Story of Love, Loss, Faith and Healing | Ray O'Conor |
| She's Not You | Judi Getch Brodman |
| Siempre (Always) | B Daniel Martinez |
| Silver Moraine: A Memoir of Horror | Selaine Henriksen |
| Sin in the Big Easy | Elizabeth McCourt |
| Sinfandel | Gina Cresse |
| Smugglers Blues | Leonard Denison |
| Snow Queen's Daughter | Charli Devnet |
| Sojourn | Robert Lumsden |
| Solitude Showdown | Lee Atterbury |
| Something Bigger | Brian Howlett |
| Songbird | Donna Gimarc |
| Soul To Keep | Rachel Rawlings |
| South of Main Street | Robert Gately & Lois Gately |
| Sparky | Micaela Dartson Hicken |
| St. Blair: Children of the Night | Emily Skinner |
| Stabitha | Brad Vance |
| Starring...John Dillinger | Bill Walker & Brian Anthony |
| State of Affairs | Vera Roberts |
| Stealing Forbidden Dreams | Edward Alban |
| Stein, Stoned | Hal Ackerman |
| Stepping Up | Robert Culp |
| Supra/normal | Arran McDermott |
| Survivanoia | Melody Von Smith |
| Swim | Avi Duckor-Jones |
| Tallok | David Luz |
| Temples, Tombs & Death Traps - the Fantastic Exploits of Lord Edgar Marshall-Smith | Philippe D'Imperio |
| Tendon from Bone | Thomas Eggenberger |
| Texas Blood | Dru Murray |
| That Harlot, Fame | Richard Abramson |
| The '49 Indian | Craig Moody |
| The 'Why' Axis | Esmeralda Seay-Reynolds |
| The Aerial Queen | Catherine Clarke |
| The Anchor Clankers | Renee Garrison |
| The Anesthesia Game | Rea Nolan Martin |
| The Art of Us | Kaycee Hughes |
| The Artificial Doctor | David Hudacek |
| The Autopsy of Planet Earth | R. J. Eastwood |
| The Bank Robbers' Sister | Roberta Haas George |
| The Beauty Doctor | Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard |
| The Book | Keith Elias |
| The Botany of Witchcraft | Zella Watson |
| The Calvary Incident | James Sladack |
| The Canary Connection | Phillip Spolin |
| The Captain Loves Caviar | Chilli Kippen & Elaine Berkowitz |
| The Civil War at Home | Dustin McKissen |
| The Clockmakers | Gordon LePage |
| The Condor Song | Joan Golden |
| The Confessions of Jonathan Flite | Matthew Beier |
| The Convergence - The Graphic Novel | Emily Rose Laochua |
| The Copenhagen Incident | Herb Jordan |
| The Coven | Chrissy Lessey |
| The Crystal Clipper | Barbara Roman |
| The Divide | Brent Hartinger & Michael Jensen |
| The Emerald Key | Christine Daigle & Stewart Sternberg |
| The Facts of Lies | Tom Nussbaum |
| The FBI Wife | Sandra Windsor |
| The Fisherman's Daughter | Robin Barefield |
| The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride | Joe Siple |
| The Fountain of Youth | Steve Shear |
| The Frozen Trail | Lisa Dayley |
| The Fruit of the Dendragon Tree | Paul Deepan |
| The Ghost of Morgan Gulch | Vickie Gardner |
| The Golem of Venice Beach | Chanan Beizer |
| The Good Citizen | Joel Doty |
| The Grand Adventures of Inspector Toadius McGee | Tom Phillips |
| The Great & the Small | Andrea Balsara |
| The Grimaldi Chronicles Book I | Roxanne Dent |
| The Harper Effect | Taryn Bashford |
| The Heart of a Tiger | SreyRam Kuy |
| The Interval | john cooney |
| The Irish Nurse: Courage Between Love and Death | Adele Pillitteri |
| The Jack of Souls | Stephen Merlno |
| The Keepers | Richard Guimond |
| The King's Corpse | MJ Jones |
| The Last Faoii | Tahani Nelson |
| The Last Iceberg | Ralph Walker |
| The Last Prince of Atlantis Chronicles | Leonard Clifton |
| The Last Wife | Amy Reedy |
| The Legend of Pokey Nose | Tami Ryder |
| The Lost Coast | Scott Lipanovich |
| The Lost Road to Hope: Don't Survive, Live | Ronald Rossmann |
| The Lotus Eaters | Tatjana Soli |
| The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Short Stories | Fiza Pathan |
| The Man Curse | Raqiyah Mays |
| The Mayberry Messiah | Russell Johnson |
| The Mighty Hook | Mark Tarrant |
| The Misadventures of Buddy Jones | David Margolis |
| The Modern Odyssey | Deepanjali Sharma |
| The Month of September | Christine Sneed |
| The Musical Quest of Harrison Hare Book Two Journey to Rhythm Creek | Wade Boteler |
| The Mysterious Disappearance of Colby Blue | Eric Vasallo |
| The Name in Shadow | Terence Waeland |
| The Naming Game | Gabriel Valjan |
| The Nephilim Virus | John Prather |
| The Ninth Step | Jan Schmidt |
| The Noble Noggin | Sharis Mitchell |
| The Old Cape Hollywood Secret | Barbara E. Struna |
| The P.S. Wars | Geoffrey Carter |
| The Past is Never | Tiffany Quay Tyson |
| The Pelican | Monika Naidoo |
| The Peppermill Murders | Steven Hartman |
| The Phantom's Gold | Eric Murphy |
| The Pivot | Marina Hatsopoulos |
| The Post-Apocalyptic Dining Guide | Joe Buonfiglio |
| The Prince of Foxes | Alexander Ferrar |
| The Quest of Arryn Kaan | C. Todd Cleveland |
| The Railwalkers | Ruth Hanson |
| The Real Estate Rookie | Robert Boog |
| The Red Dragon | Russ Duvall |
| The Republic of Jack | Jeff Kerr |
| The Retirement Plan | Steven Prowse |
| The River: A Jack Slack Shoebox Dialogue | George Benda |
| The Romanovsky Stain | Duke Zimmer |
| The Ruin and Rise of Madame Royale | Lori Radulovich |
| The Runaways | Sonya Terjanian |
| The Russian & Aunt Sophia | Rita Moreau |
| The Scent of Gardenia: A Killing in Princeville | M.E.B. Smith |
| The Second Coming of Jesse James | Mark Herder |
| The Street Enters the House | Lisa Garvey |
| The Summons | Janet Wise |
| The Swim | Fredrik Colting |
| The Swordmaker | Jackie Marchant |
| The Tale of a No-Name Squirrel | Radhika Dhariwal |
| The Throwaways | LS Hawker |
| The Trials of Adrian Wheeler | Steve Shear |
| The Walls | Chris Wendel |
| The Whip | Karen Kondazian & Ryan Oksenberg |
| The World on Fire | Sheldon Woodbury |
| The Year the Music Changed: The Letters of Achsa McEachern-Isaacs and Elvis Presley | Diane Thomas |
| The Zarkas | Clayton Bennett |
| Then and Now | Caroline O'Meara |
| These Walls Don't Talk, They Scream: A Novel | Elizabeth Dahl |
| Third World | William Stewart |
| This is How I Save My Life | Amy Scher |
| Thoughts & Prayers | Karen Robbins |
| Through the Waterfall | Lazaros Zigomanis |
| Through the Woods | April Sebree |
| Thumperica! A Novel of the Ghost of America Future | Lloyd Mullins |
| Tick | Allison Rose |
| Tiger Drive | Teri Case |
| To the Brim | Anna Pattison |
| To the Victor | Christine Dell |
| Trail Ends In Texas | Walter Lawrence |
| Transfigured Word | Luis Arata |
| Under | Deborah Cloyed |
| Unspoken Word | Catherine Rickman |
| Vancouver's Spirits | Frank Talaber |
| Venice in the Moonlight | Joseph Burinskas |
| Village Idiots | Michael Angelella |
| Voodoo Hideaway | Vance Cariaga |
| Waitapu | Helen Waaka |
| Wallagalore | Annie Nishida |
| Ward | Kyle Waller |
| Welcome Home Thomas Burcher | Sean Lester Durham |
| What Child Is This? | Patricia Schultheis |
| What Happens in Yellowstone | Greg Marchand |
| Wheel of the Sun | Catherine Faurot |
| When Jonathan Cried For Me | Carter Lee |
| When Misdeeds Misfire | Mariann Melechinsky |
| Where We Go From Here | Matthew Haynes |
| While You Were Out | Christina Hamlett & Jamie Dare |
| Whispering Winds | Richard Guimond |
| Widow | Joan'ay Rhodes |
| Wish Club | Kim Strickland-Sargent |
| Wounded Souls | Renny Hodgskin |
| Zombie-saurus Rex | Mark Souza |
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