2018 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition Finalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on February 27, 2019

Listed below are the finalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition, selected from over 1,200 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 grand prize winner here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!

If you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries in 2019, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.

Here are the top 25 finalists:

*4 Years Trapped in My Mind Palace*	Johan Twiss
*A Life Without Water*	Marci Clark
*Cold Reckoning*	J. R. Geary
*Emerson Page and Where the Light Enters*	Christa Avampato
*Happily Destroyed*	Evan Purcell
*Incident on the Road to Canterbury*	Vince Pantalone
*Iron Dogs*	Neil Chase
*Louisiana Blood*	Mike Donald
*Metamorphphilia*	Dorian Martin
*Not The Jamaica We Know*	Paula Lennon
*Picaro: Psychopaths, Warlords, and a Rogue Journalist on the Dark Side of History*	Jeff Harmon
*Praelium*	Andrew Furstenberg
*Race Music*	Mark Herder
*Regen*	Cassie Greutman
*Soul To Keep*	Rachel Rawlings
*Starring...John Dillinger*	Bill Walker & Brian Anthony
*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 Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride*	Joe Siple
*The Golem of Venice Beach*	Chanan Beizer
*The Heart of a Tiger*	SreyRam Kuy
*The Tale of a No-Name Squirrel*	Radhika Dhariwal
*The Whip*	Karen Kondazian