2018 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition Semifinalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on February 6, 2019

Listed below are the semifinalists 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 finalists and grand prize winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!

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Here are the semifinalists:

*#Lazarus10*	Andrew Rajan
*30 Red Dresses*	Johan Twiss
*4 Years Trapped in My Mind Palace*	Johan Twiss
*A Hundred Weddings*	Cathy Cruise
*A Life Without Water*	Marci Clark
*A Special Breed of Warrior*	Joseph Mujwit
*A Tightening Noose and Cities on Hills*	Brian Wells
*Among the Gravestones*	Laurel Pardo & Janelle Leonard
*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
*Audrey Appleton and the Nightmares of Everdream*	Tom Grey
*Beautiful Impostor*	Katayoon Zandvakili
*Becoming Hero*	Jen Finelli
*Behind Me Lies the Desert*	Kevin Neill
*Brothers*	Kirk Weddell
*Carrying Independence*	Karen A. Chase
*Charon's Blade*	Michael J. Alcorn
*Cimarrona*	Sara Monteagudo
*Cold Reckoning*	J. R. Geary
*Cool Side of the Pillow*	Gregory G. Allen
*Curse of Cortes'*	Guy Morris
*Daughter of Destiny: Guinevere's Tale Book 1*	Nicole Evelina
*Death Card Series*	Joan Peck
*Decoys*	Karen A. Chase
*Die To Live Again*	David Crane
*Eden*	Jeanne Blasberg
*Emerson Page and Where the Light Enters*	Christa Avampato
*Exit*	Julian Boote
*For Her Sins*	Mark Wooden
*Friends Like These*	Alexander Ferrar
*Getaway Day*	Ken White
*Gettysburg by Morning*	Randy O'Brien
*Ghost on the Path*	Gail Webber
*Go Home*	Sohrab Homi Fracis
*Gone Gorilla: Chicaghost Novella #1*	Robert W. Walker
*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
*Hit and Run*	Diane Hester
*Identity Check*	Richard Jones
*Imperfect Acts*	Peter Shianna
*In My Father's Generation*	Roy Rhodes
*Incident on the Road to Canterbury*	Vince Pantalone
*Intuition A Kylie Anderson Vacation*	Kaaren Brown
*Iron Dogs*	Neil Chase
*Jolly's Christmas*	Ken Robb
*Journey Into Darkness, a story in four parts, 2nd edition*	Joel Moore
*Journey Through a Land of Minor Annoyances*	Al Kline
*Long Live Glosser's*	Robert Jeschonek
*Louisiana Blood*	Mike Donald
*Love. Rinse. Repeat.*	Lynda Foote
*Madame Presidentess*	Nicole Evelina
*Master of Breath*	Paul Allen
*Matter of Discretion*	Donna Lee Davis
*Meet Me Halfway: Milwaukee Stories*	Jennifer Morales
*Metamorphphilia*	Dorian Martin
*Money Bear*	Kerry Cox
*Mrs. Saville*	Ted Morrissey
*No Cowboy Required*	JoAnn Sky
*Not The Jamaica We Know*	Paula Lennon
*Oaf*	Flora Doone
*Paris Orphan Escape from Evil*	Charles Loebbaka
*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
*Praelium*	Andrew Furstenberg
*Prescription, Please*	Mirek Brandt
*Primetimes*	Amy McCormick
*Punk Charming*	Laura Quinn
*Race Music*	Mark Herder
*Really (Almost) True Story*	Joey Jones
*Regen*	Cassie Greutman
*Runaways, Renegades and Rejects: A Cookbook*	Jennifer Dickinson
*Saving Bobby: Heroes and Heroin in One Small Community*	Renee Hodges
*Sea Legs & Fish Nets*	Maria Finn
*Shadow Summoner*	Tess Adair
*She Called Him Raymond : A True Story of Love, Loss, Faith and Healing*	Ray O'Conor
*Something Bigger*	Brian Howlett
*Soul To Keep*	Rachel Rawlings
*Starring...John Dillinger*	Bill Walker & Brian Anthony
*Stein, Stoned*	Hal Ackerman
*Tallok*	David Luz
*The 'Why' Axis*	Esmeralda Seay-Reynolds
*The Autopsy of Planet Earth*	R. J. Eastwood
*The Beauty Doctor*	Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard
*The Book*	Keith Elias
*The Botany of Witchcraft*	Zella Watson
*The Captain Loves Caviar -*	Chilli Kippen & Elaine Berkowitz
*The Condor Song*	Joan Golden
*The Confessions of Jonathan Flite*	Matthew Beier
*The Copenhagen Incident*	Herb Jordan
*The Divide*	Brent Hartinger & Michael Jensen
*The Emerald Key*	Christine Daigle & Stewart Sternberg
*The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride*	Joe Siple
*The Fountain of Youth*	Steve Shear
*The Golem of Venice Beach*	Chanan Beizer
*The Great & the Small*	Andrea Balsara
*The Harper Effect*	Taryn Bashford
*The Heart of a Tiger*	SreyRam Kuy
*The Interval*	John Cooney
*The King's Corpse*	MJ Jones
*The Last Wife*	Amy Reedy
*The Lost Coast*	Scott Lipanovich
*The Lotus Eaters*	Tatjana Soli
*The Man Curse*	Raqiyah Mays
*The Mayberry Messiah*	Russell Johnson
*The Month of September*	Christine Sneed
*The Mysterious Disappearance of Colby Blue*	Eric Vasallo
*The P.S. Wars*	Geoffrey Carter
*The Pivot*	Marina Hatsopoulos
*The Post-Apocalyptic Dining Guide*	Joe Buonfiglio
*The Romanovsky Stain*	Duke Zimmer
*The Runaways*	Sonya Terjanian
*The Second Coming of Jesse James*	Mark Herder
*The Tale of a No-Name Squirrel*	Radhika Dhariwal
*The Trials of Adrian Wheeler*	Steve Shear
*The Walls*	Chris Wendel
*The Whip*	Ryan Oksenberg & Karen Kondazian
*Thoughts & Prayers*	Karen Robbins
*Thumperica! A Novel of the Ghost of America Future*	Lloyd Mullins
*To the Victor*	Christine Dell
*Unspoken Word*	Catherine Rickman
*What Happens in Yellowstone*	Greg Marchand
*Whispering Winds*	Richard Guimond
*Wounded Souls*	Renny Hodgskin
*Zombie-saurus Rex*	Mark Souza