2021 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on January 6, 2021
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2021 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition. These exceptional stories were selected from almost 1,400 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the Quarterfinalists:
| "Just Another Girl on the Road" | S. Kensington |
| 7th Grade Revolution | Liana Gardner |
| 80 Years Till Death: Sex, Drugs, and Osteoporosis | JP LeRoux |
| A Blind Eye | Alan Larson |
| A Feigned Madness | Tonya Mitchell |
| A Fondness for Beetles | Rebekah Heaney |
| A Heart on the River | John Bauer |
| A-Luring We Will go | Barbara Milton |
| Acts of Hope: Part 2 of The Inquisition Trilogy | Martin Elsant |
| Ahriman's Mirror | Dawn Peterson |
| Alaska Flight | Betty Kuffel |
| Algorythmic | Larry Rosenthal |
| All Creatures Here Below | Ryan Stevens |
| All Junkies Float | Clarke Wainikka |
| All the Pretty Shoes | Marianne R Klein |
| All Their Yesterdays | Karen Mireau |
| Amarok | Angela Townsend |
| American Female: A true tale of adventure | Emily Timmerman |
| Among Kings | Joey O'Connor |
| And For Your Information | Denise Deegan |
| And One Day My Stars Will Burn | Damon Ferrara |
| Angus MacBain and The Island Of Sleeping Kings | Angela Townsend |
| Asher and Stacey's Magnificent Road Trip | Stacey Cohen-Maitre |
| Aurora and the Thief | Becky Bird |
| Autumn's Captive | Kelda Poynot |
| Bad Elf | John Rae |
| Bear Trap | Cullen Thomas |
| Before the Court of Heaven | Jack Mayer |
| Ben, The Boy From Nowhere | Ian Hart |
| Beneath | Simon James Wood |
| Benson Family Secrets | Sean Armstrong |
| Best Interests of the Child | Paul Bouchard |
| Beyond Belief - Heroes of the Holocaust | Dee White |
| Bird and Shadow | Mhairead MacLeod |
| Black Donnelly, Rats and Pigs | Fergus Egan |
| Black Hands In Red Lands | Larry Baer |
| Black, White, and Red All Over | Deeann Mathews |
| Blessed are the Heroes | Ed Mattson |
| Blood & Bitcoin | L.A. Witt |
| BloodLaw | Blaise Ramsay |
| Bocas a novel | Thomas M. Barron |
| Bough Breaks | Katherine Vaz |
| Breaking Twig | Deborah Epperson |
| Breathe | Eileen Hornback |
| Breathe | Brionna Nijah |
| Bunker 10 | Jan-Andrew Henderson |
| Cam & Beau | Maria Cichosz |
| Came A Creature | David Dalessandro |
| Captive | Loraine Anderson |
| Censorettes | Elizabeth Bales Frank |
| Chasing Nirvana | Ellyn Oaksmith |
| Children of the Revolution | Trevor Colgan |
| Chilly | Robert Sweet |
| City of Bridges - The Seven Portals series | Andre Jones |
| Clean Burn | Karen Sandler |
| Cleaning Up Finn | Sarah M. Chen |
| Colombo: The unsolved murder | Don Capria |
| Cormorant Lake | Faith Merino |
| Couldn't Quit | Alan Mack |
| Coyote: Evelyn's Tribulation | Glenn Garrett |
| CrossTown | Loren Cooper |
| Crown Prince: Book One of New Blood | W.D. Kilpack III |
| Crushing The Red Flowers | Jennifer Voigt Kaplan |
| Da Vinci's Last Supper: The Forgotten Tale | Paul Arrowsmith |
| Damned Reflections | Julian Coleman |
| Dancing with Demons | Nidhie Sharma |
| Dark Country | Monique Snyman |
| Dark Fire: Yesterday's Tears | David Benson |
| Dart | Dale Renton |
| Deadly Spin | Betty Kuffel |
| Dear Caroline... | Ralph Yourie |
| Death is a Grizzly | Joel Graves |
| Death of a Bounty Hunter | Jay Sherer & Nathan Scheck |
| Deb Dawson Psychic & Spiritualist | Keith McCabe |
| Dewdrops | Dan Flanigan |
| Dickbird and The Specials | Conor Hanney |
| Difficult Lies | Christopher Werkman |
| Dil Bahar | Farah Ahamed |
| Dragon's Mist | Randy Cruts |
| Dreamshaker and the Curse of Lykis | Blake Smart |
| Drown 'Em Like Puppies | Maria Wickens |
| Earnest Ink | Alex Hall |
| Earth To Andromeda: Hurtling Toward Calamity | Christie Allen |
| East of the Cookie Tree | Michael J. Vaughn |
| Electric Laughter - Novel | Susan Hahn |
| Elephant in a Safeway Bag | Roderick Stevens |
| Enfant Terrible | Gwydhar Gebien |
| Exciti | Dalia Alnuaimi |
| Far Away Bird | Douglas Burton |
| Felix Grey and the Descendant | Mario Theodorou |
| Fence of Earth | Suzanne McConnell |
| Finding Nine | Susan Langhorst |
| First Do No Harm | Kurt Avard |
| Fool's Run | Sidney Williams |
| For Dying Out Loud: Adventures in Hollywood, Healthcare, and Forgiveness | Alexandra Free |
| Four Dead Queens | Astrid Scholte |
| Gearteeth | Timothy Black |
| Get Idiota | Nate Granzow |
| Gichi Manidoo | Charles J. Musser |
| Gifted: The Story of a Young Genius | Nishad Gumaste |
| Girl of a Thousand Shadows | Jennifer Coryell |
| Glass Onion | David Yurkovich |
| Gllu Boy and The Seven Abominations | William Waxman |
| Gordath Wood | Patrice Sarath |
| Great Isaac Light | Doug Sherr |
| Greenbrier | Phyllis Wilson |
| Gumbo Justice | Holli Herrle-Castillo |
| Hanna the President's Daughter | John Denison |
| Hard Cider- a novel | Barbara Stark-Nemon |
| Hard Red Winter | Alan Larson |
| Hattie McCoy and the Soul Wells | Brian Bull |
| Headless | Tristram Lowe |
| Heckler | Jason Graff |
| Helmet Head | John Noreen |
| Hide | Jan-Andrew Henderson |
| Hiding from the Flying Man | William Parolini |
| High Moor | Graeme Reynolds |
| His Name Was Ezra | Craig Moody |
| Ho Ho Ho | Ulvrik "Wolf" Kraft |
| Hockey Camp Hero | John Blair |
| Honor Camp | Unnamed |
| How I Became a Vengeful, Psycho Killer | Laura Becker |
| I Am Ed | Rebecca Akerlund |
| I Never Lie | Jody Sabral |
| I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol | Joanne Rose |
| Illa's Journey | Maja Simeoni Sruk |
| Images of Broken Light | Michael Di Leo |
| In Memoriam | Steven Lundgren |
| In the Basement | N. Padilla |
| In the Mouth of the Lion | Jeff Guenther |
| In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program | Patrick Hicks |
| In Times of Silence | Chrys Tillman |
| Infinite Vector | Matthew Kohnen |
| Iva: The True Story Of Tokyo Rose | Mike Weedall |
| Ivory Rangers | Joseph Mujwit |
| JAGO | Keith Austin |
| Jesus on the Dashboard | Lisa Murphy Lamb |
| Joe Smith | John FitzGerald |
| Journey to the Giants | Monica Evans |
| July Seventeenth | Kim Ko |
| Juna's Jar | Jane Bahk |
| Keeping Up With Jones | Cassie Poormokhtar |
| Killfluencers | Denise Deegan |
| Knives | Kelly Ellis |
| L.A. Kills | Jason McAfee |
| Lady Roosevelt's Moonshine Library | Ryan Byrnes |
| Life is Easy | Sharon Hayes-Martin |
| Lifewalla - Inspired by true events | Nina Joshi Ramsey |
| Lifted | Nathan Moore |
| Lost Girls | Ellen Birkett Morris |
| Love & Homegrown Magic | Patricia Bossano |
| Making Manna | Eric Lotke |
| Marguerite and Family | Linette Arthurton Bruno |
| Maya in the Nimbus Valley, the City of forggoten Spirits | Albina Ramey |
| Maybe There Are Witches | Ben Lohman |
| Merlin of the Magnolias | Gardner Landry |
| Merlin Raj and the Santa Algorithm | P A |
| Metalmorphosis Novel | Andrew McLinden |
| Mexizona (An American Dream) | Alan Larson |
| Mile High Jiggered | Barry Schnell |
| Miracle at Zakynthos | Deno Seder |
| Moonflower | Angela Townsend |
| Ms. Never | Colin Dodds |
| My Big Heart-Shaped Fail | cindy callaghan |
| My Cat is a Dog (MCIAD) | Mohja Rhoads |
| My Favorite Teacher is a Pirate | Annie Palmer |
| My Heart Transplant For Your Amusement | Vince Clews |
| My Life as a Star | Ruth Kaufman |
| My Teenage Dream Ended | Farrah Abraham |
| My whorizontal Life: An Escort's Tale | Sephe Haven |
| My Wife's Husband: A Family Thriller | Eugene Davis |
| Near Death | Rich Hosek, Loyd Auerbach & Arnold Rudnick |
| Newman's Choice | Mark Connelly |
| Neworld Papers | Keith Shaw |
| Night Shot | J. Madison Johnston |
| Nina's Spiral | Rosanne Limoncelli |
| Novus Arcanum | Michael Maxwell |
| On the Charles | Laurel Kratochvila |
| Once in a Blood Moon | Dorothea Bonneau |
| Original Sins | Bill Mesce, Jr. |
| Ox Bridger | Randy Neale |
| Panorama | Christina Upton |
| Patron Saints of Lost Causes | Vandana Khanna & Blas Falconer |
| Pawn Of The Gods | Andrea Franco Cook |
| Pendulum | Richard T. Lynch |
| Perpetual Motion | Cassy Phoenix |
| Piano Soldier | Josephine Thomas |
| Plain Princess Jane | Jennifer Milne |
| Plastic Phoenix | Kyle McGraw |
| Playing Cupid | Samantha Alban |
| Playing The Changes | George Collins |
| Pretending You're Mine | Marie Higgins |
| Private Good Luck | Sherwin Gluck |
| Quarantined | Ann Hirsch |
| Quest | Marcia Zina Mager |
| Reckoner | Douglas Rappaport |
| Reclamation | Gregory Beam |
| Redacted | J. Andrew Rutledge |
| Resort | Andrew Daley |
| Rocky Mountain High (Smoke Above Treeline) | steven schlozman |
| Royal Beauty Bright | Ryan Byrnes |
| Ruby's Revenge | Christine Gallagher |
| Ryder | Jacob Cherney |
| Sacrificed | Robert Bridge |
| Sandman | Tammy Bird |
| Saving Sophie | Debbie Schrack |
| Saving the Light at Chartres | Victor Pollak |
| Scorched Earth: Peacekeeping in Timor during a campaign of death and destruction | Tammy Pemper |
| Seven Versions of the Death of Big Ed Delahanty | Richard Barrington |
| Sharks in the Valley | Travis Kennedy |
| Sheet Music | Debby Mayer |
| Shimmers | Jonathan Strecker |
| Sight Unseen | Susan Mac Nicol |
| Sing Sweet Sparrow | Angela Townsend |
| Sisters of the Moon | Alexandrea Weis |
| Some Awful Cunning | Joe Ricker |
| Son of Death | Shandra Snyder-Beuch |
| Song of the Shaman | Annette Vendryes Leach |
| Splintered State | Justin Kinney |
| Tactical Action Squad - Bushfire Emergency | Tim Mac |
| Tatiana and the Russian Wolves | Stephen Evans Jordan |
| Teaching While Black: A New Voice on Race and Education in New York City | Pamela Lewis |
| Tears and Trombones | Nanci Lee Woody |
| Temple of Eternity | Scott Boyer |
| That's Probably Really Ironic | Yashaswini Singh |
| The Achilles Factor | Marianne Joyce |
| The Ancestor | Lee Matthew Goldberg |
| The Ancient Chronicles: The Newborn | Richard Delgado |
| The Art of Elodie | Michelle Luke |
| The Big Finish | Brooke Fossey |
| The Big Tilt | Dan Flanigan |
| The Big Wow | Chantal Boccaccio |
| The Bigwigs | Joshua Henaman |
| The Boy Who Never Give (A Refugee's epic journey to triumph) | Emmanuel Taban |
| The Bridge Across Times | Giuliana Sica |
| The Café on Dream Street | Adriane Brown |
| The Cherry Harvest | Lucy Sanna |
| The Christmas Samaritan | Mary Freeman |
| The Cost of Living | M.L. Pressman |
| The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris, and Failure in the U.S. Military | Tim Bakken |
| The Crossingway | Lynn Elliott |
| The Daffodil Society | T.D. Johnston |
| The Endless Day: Reporting From an Alternate Reality | Teague Wilson |
| The Entity: 2147 | David A Collier |
| The Entity: Climate Change 2647 | David A. Collier |
| The Extraction List Manuscript | Renee Meland |
| The False Men | Mhairead MacLeod |
| The Games | Austin Daniel |
| The Ghost of Cashmere | Quincy A. Mosley |
| The Girl at the Hanging Tree | Mary Gray |
| The Girl Who Strayed | Sofia Ashdown |
| The Greatest Journey | Andhra S. Gomes |
| The Humanist | Kenneth Allen |
| The Invisible Runner | Dennis Haseley |
| The Journey Home | Becky Bird |
| The Judas Apocalypse | Dan McNeil |
| The Khardian Gate | Richard McEwen |
| The King of Con: How a Smooth-Talking Jersey Boy Made and Lost Billions, Baffled the FBI,
Eluded the Mob, and Lived to Tell the Crooked Tale |
Natasha Stoynoff & Thomas Giacomaro |
| The Last Man of Thebes | Michael Colucci |
| The Last Wife | Amy Asbjørnsen |
| The Legend of Bluebeard: A True Tale of Murder, Magnificence and Madness | Valerie Ogden |
| The Lies We Tell | Laura McCluskey |
| The Liquidator | Iain Parke |
| The Long Reach of the Ancient Gods | Beverly A. Jackson |
| The Long Wave | Tom Dreyer |
| The Lost Coast | Scott Lipanovich |
| The Magus World | Gannon G Kenney |
| The Man with Lightning in His EYe | Sid Gateaux |
| The Mood For Trouble | Meredith Spears |
| The Other One | Chrysler Szarlan |
| The Passion Experiment | Rebekah Faubion |
| The Path of the Righteous | Hernando Romero |
| The Prairie Bridesmaid | Daria Salamon |
| The Pros & Cons of Happily Ever After | Rebekah Faubion |
| The Queue | L Michael Hager |
| The Raven's Conjuring: Dreams of Desolation | Miguel Garcia |
| The Roach | Rhett Bruno |
| The Road to Angeland | Kay Olsen |
| The Ropewalk | John Knauf |
| The Rules of Action | Landon J Napoleon |
| The Salvaged & The Forgotten | Daniel G. Doyle |
| The Schrödinger Man | Strul Fieldgrass |
| The Seven Experiments | Steve Kanicki |
| The Shadow Of Ascension | Robin McConnell |
| The Shells at Night | Robert Sancrainte |
| The Shop on Luna Crescent | Aimée Kwan |
| The Sleepers | Sydney Raeburn-Power |
| The Social Program | Brent Delaney |
| The Society | Ariel Heart |
| The Speaker | Gail Webber |
| The Suirlang Chronicle: Lee | M. J. Solomon |
| The Taming of the Devil Dog - Titan (An Exorcism) | Joshua Stewart |
| The Temple of the Graces | T.D. Johnston |
| The Tiny Giant | Christopher Newcomb |
| The Tree, A Journey to Freedom | Minnette Coleman |
| The Trophy Room | Alison Quigley |
| The Uniform | Gabby Gruen |
| The Venetian and the Rum Runner | L.A. Witt |
| The Weight of It All | Wendy Baldwin |
| The Wild Inside | Christine Carbo |
| There's Nothing Normal About Us | Art Blount |
| These Rebel Waves | Sara Raasch |
| They gave me the electric chair and i gave it back. | Bobbie Robinson |
| Thicker Than Water | Geoffrey Carter |
| Time Trap: Red Moon science fiction, time travel trilogy book 1 | Micah Caida |
| Titanium | Clare Houston |
| To Live Is To Die | Joanne Rose |
| Triptych | J.M. Frey |
| Tura - A Gambler's Diary | Marianne R. Klein |
| Twisted | Joanne Carlton |
| Two Good Men: Carmichael Saga | Elisabeth Cannell |
| Two Mutts | Matthew Remakus |
| Unconquered Warrior | Jeanette Nicely |
| Unlashed | Reb Schuster |
| Unloved, a love story | Katy Regnery |
| Unnatural Relations | Casey B Dolan |
| Valkyrie's Kiss | Michael Alcorn |
| Village Idiots | Michael Angelella |
| Virginia | thayer joyce |
| Waltzing with the Dragons | Juliette Triozon |
| Western Sunset | Karin Bishop |
| When We're Young | Amanda ReCupido |
| Where The Dirt Road Meets The Blacktop | Rose Wilson |
| Where We Go From Here | Matthew Haynes |
| Whiteout | Christopher Robin Hood |
| Winner! Winner! | Scott Edelen |
| Wizard Island Child of the Orb | Terry Morris |
| Wonderland DownUnder | Corinne MacKenzie |
| You Decide | Robert Wolff |
| You Don't Have to Die in the End | Anita Daher |
| Zombelina | Atong Alor |
| Zombietown | Matthew Nicholls |
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