2019 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition Finalists Announced

Listed below are the finalists of the 2019 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 so many compelling works.
This year's jury is comprised of literary agents from The Gersh Agency, United Talent Agency, and 3 Arts Entertainment.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcement of the grand prize winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
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Here are the finalists:
A Scarcity Of Condors | Suanne Laqueur |
Abandoned In Hell | Marvin Wolf |
An Audience For Einstein | Mark Wakely |
Anna Incognito | LAURA PREBLE |
Annaliese From Off | Lindy Carter |
Beauty And The Freak | Jackie Bateman |
Brain XP: Living With Mental Illness, A Young Teenager's Perspective | Christine Marie Frey |
Busara Road Novel | David Sanders |
Calumet City | Charlie Newton |
Death By The River | Alexandrea Weis & Lucas Astor |
Failure To Appear: Resistance, Identity And Loss, A Memoir | Emily Freeman |
Heartbreak And Rage: Ten Years Under Sun Myung Moon, A Cult Survivor's Memoir | Gordon Neufeld |
It Takes Death To Reach A Star | Stu Jones & Gareth Worthington |
Jihadi Bride | Alastair Luft |
Minyan: Ten Jewish Men in A World That Is Heartbroken | Eliezer Sobel |
Murph | Leanna Adams |
My So-Called Ruined Life: Book One Of The Tate McCoy Series | Melanie Bishop |
No Color But The Light | Daria Polichetti |
Novus Arcanum | Michael Maxwell |
One Good Eye One Bad | Elizabeth Bevilacqua |
Raptor Canyon | Andrew Baldwin |
Remedy For A Broken Angel | Toni Ann Johnson |
Richly Drawn | Ulvrik "Wolf" Kraft |
Runaways | Rachel Sawden |
Safari | Alexander Plansky |
Sanguinity Point | Peter Palmieri |
Saving Bobby: Heroes and Heroin in One Small Community | Renee Hodges |
Send | Patty Blount |
Sex And Samosas | Jasmine Aziz |
The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist's Misadventures With Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics And Other Consciousness-Raising Experiments | Eliezer Sobel |
The Accidental Anarchist | Bryna Kranzler |
The Autopsy Of Planet Earth | Robert Emery |
The Curse Of The Romanovs | Staton Rabin |
The Desire Card | Lee Matthew Goldberg |
The Gender Experiment | L.J. Sellers |
The Guardian | Jim Gourley |
The Scythian Trials | Elizabeth Isaacs |
The Shiva Syndrome | Alan Joshua |
The Uniform | G. Gruen |
The Woodcutter | Kate Danley |
The Zygan Emprise Trilogy | Yolanda Reid |
Thirty Below | Harry Groome |
This Is How I Save My Life: From California To India, A True Story Of Finding Everything When You Are Willing To Try Anything | Amy Scher |
This Is The Dead Land | Chelsea Judy |
Through Violet Eyes | Stephen Woodworth |
Violent Violet | Sara Gray |
Web Of Titans | Adam Perin |
Who Killed Buster Sparkle? | John Bateman |
Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, And Hidden Agendas Of Nine Political Wives | Anne Michaud |
Word Is Bone | Christopher Rosales |
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