2019 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition Quarterfinalists Announced
by ScreenCraft on January 8, 2020
Listed below are the quarterfinalists 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 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 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:
| A Blessed Life: One World War II Seabee's Story | Tamra Bolton |
| A Child of Fortune | Rob Wright |
| A Dream for Love | Lisa Belcastro |
| A Field of Red | Greg Enslen |
| A Harvest of Thorns | Mario Carini |
| A Knife in the Fog | Bradley Harper |
| A Man's Face | Barbara Roman |
| A Perfect Storm | Juliana Feaver |
| A Scarcity of Condors | Suanne Laqueur |
| A Town of Lost Things | Alice Irvin |
| A Trail of Blood | peter Goldman |
| Abandoned In Hell | Marvin Wolf |
| Abraham's Burden | Joseph Crew |
| Act on the Heart | Genie Bernstein |
| Age Matters | Peggy Dougherty |
| Alien Ways | David Rank |
| ALIENS! ALIENS! ALIENS!: Chronicles Of The Seventh Reign | Safdar Muttaqi |
| All of These Secrets | Elaine H MacDonald |
| American War Chief | Bryan Ney |
| An Audience for Einstein | Mark Wakely |
| And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown | Judy Bebelaar |
| Anna Incognito | Laura Preble |
| Annaliese From Off | Lindy Carter |
| Anniversary Get Away | Janet R. Sady |
| Anvil of God | Joe Gleason |
| Any Summer Sunday at Nacho Mama's Patio Cafe : Drag, Songs, Friends, Laughs, Lies, Danger & Redemption | Steven Schatz |
| ARC | Dirk Walvoord |
| Arcadia | Alexander Plansky |
| As Wings Unfurl | Arthur Doweyko |
| Atomic City Terror: Curse of the Murderous Dummy | Michael Laemmle |
| Bad Dad | KK Wootton |
| Bamboozle: A Poker Mystery | James Magner |
| Barrel: Soul of a Migrant | Brijanand Goberdhan |
| Barstow | David Esselstrom |
| Beauty and the Freak | Jackie Bateman |
| Becoming JiJi | David R Yale |
| Becoming Mrs. Astin | Sarah Deitch |
| Before the Court of Heaven | Jack Mayer |
| Before We Died | Joan Schweighardt |
| Bemused, Confused, and Bedazzled | Edythe Wise |
| Betsy and The Emperor | Staton Rabin |
| Beyond Beauport | James Masciarelli |
| Beyond the Code | Kelsey Barthel |
| Black Mountain | Veny Armanno |
| Blue Moon | Lori Handeland |
| Brain XP: Living with Mental Illness, A Young Teenager's Perspective | Christine Marie Frey |
| Bronx Stagger: Tales of The Family Court | Daniel Moskowitz |
| Bucket's List | Anonymous |
| Burned: How Monaco Framed Me for the Fiery Death of Billionaire Edmond Safra | Ted Maher |
| Busara Road novel | David Sanders |
| Bycatch | Sally Asante |
| Calumet City | Charlie Newton |
| Can't Buy Me Love | Dan McNeil |
| Caravaggio: A Light Before The Darkness | Ken Mora |
| Celtic Knot: A Clara Swift Tale | Ann Shortell |
| Chance and Consequence | Sylvia Smoller |
| Charlie Miner/Down Solo | Earl Javorsky |
| Chief of Station | John Shea |
| Children of a Deviant God | ILdefonso Paez |
| Children of the Fifth Sun | Gareth Worthington |
| Christmasville (Book I of the Christmasville Trilogy) | Michael Dutton |
| Circus of the Absurd | James O'Leary |
| Class Action | Ted Wolfe & Manuel Palomo |
| Complex | Mary Kennedy |
| Cowboy Code | Louella Bryant |
| Dachshund Caper | N Jean Osborn |
| Daeios: 140 Feet Down | Colleen Eccles Penor |
| Dancing with the Devil | Gretchen Rose |
| Deadly Links | Paul Murphy |
| Death and Honesty | Cynthia Riggs |
| Death Benefits | Jerome Mandel |
| Death by the River | Alexandrea Weis & Lucas Astor |
| Death of The Queen of Hearts | Roman Clay |
| Deep Steal | Mike Seares |
| Down Among the Dead Men: In the Rafferty & Llewellyn British Mystery Series | Geraldine Evans |
| Down at the Golden Coin | Kim Strickland-Sargent |
| Drink to Every Beast | Joel Burcat |
| Drive | Susan Strecker |
| Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss, A Memoir | Emily Freeman |
| Falling Silver | Anne Maclachlan |
| Fantastik | C. A. McGroarty |
| Floating in the Neversink | Andrea Simon |
| Forks, Knives, and Spoons | Leah DeCesare |
| Forty Thorns, Wife of the Turkish Revolution | Judy Light Ayyildiz |
| Free Falling Man | John Montgomery |
| From The Ruins | Ronnie Lee Graham |
| Furious | Jeffrey Higgins |
| Getaway Day | Ken White |
| Gifts of the Sky Warrior | Noel Justice |
| God of Desolation | Ulvrik "Wolf" Kraft |
| God's Playground | Cheryl Skory Suma |
| Grimm House | Karen McQuestion |
| Groundbreaker: Coming of Age in the First Class of Women at the United States Air Force Academy | Anne Fletcher |
| Heart-Scarred | Theo Czuk |
| Heartbreak and Rage: Ten Years Under Sun Myung Moon, A Cult Survivor's Memoir | Gordon Neufeld |
| Hellbowl, Nevada | Jason Lerner |
| High-Rise Blood | David Gaherty |
| Ho Ho Ho | Ulvrik "Wolf" Kraft |
| Hollow Worlds Alliance Book 1 Saving Sumac | Bernard T. Ranson |
| House Devoid of Love | P Arthur Townsend |
| How Well the Sailors Run | Samuel Cronin |
| Humanity: Devolved | Greyson Ferguson |
| Hysterical Love | Lorraine Devon Wilke |
| I Am Venus | Barbara Mujica |
| In All Things | Marta Curti |
| In the Time of Spirits | Beth Ford |
| Infants of the Brush: A Chimney Sweep's Story | A. M. Watson |
| Intoxicating Tango: My Years in Buenos Aires | Cherie Magnus |
| ISAN (International Sensory Assassin Network) | Mary Ting |
| It Takes Death to Reach a Star | Stu Jones & Gareth Worthington |
| JDP | Ron Burch |
| Jihadi Bride | Alastair Luft |
| Jinxed | Thommy Hutson |
| Josie | Susan Lowe |
| Kabirizi's Revenge | Mike H. Mizrahi |
| Kept in the Dark | Charlie Cochet |
| Key to Savannah | Hope Callaghan |
| Lady of the House | Linda Sturgeon |
| Lanz & Gwenhevre: Love Against the Tide | Jean-Jacques Jura |
| Legacy of War | Ed Marohn |
| Lenore's Last Funeral | Joshua Donellan |
| Lilith Land | Colleen Markley |
| Lonely Voices The Complete Collection | Brandon Lovin |
| Lost in the Hall of the Mountain King | Melinda Meyer |
| Love is Louder | Susan Hahn |
| Love's Alchemy: a John Donne Mystery | Bryan Crockett |
| Majik | Mary Fancher |
| Malawi's Sisters | Melanie Hatter |
| Mara Kincaid & The Wishing Gate Bridge | Neil Chase |
| Margaret Changes Britain | John McGrath |
| Marina & the Science Club | Maria Sideris-Ishimaru |
| Mayan Interface | Pat Perrin |
| Memory Road | Martin McSweeney |
| Mijo | John McCarney |
| Mink Eyes | Dan Flanigan |
| Minyan: Ten Jewish Men in a World That is Heartbroken | Eliezer Sobel |
| Moral Code | Lois Melbourne |
| Moral Reasons | Mark McConaughey |
| Murph | Leanna Adams |
| My Family and Other Embarrassments | Jackie Marchant |
| My So-Called Ruined Life | Melanie Bishop |
| My whorizontal Life: An Escort's Tale Book One | Sephe Haven |
| Nineteen Forty-Three | DeAlexander Clarke |
| No Color but the Light | Daria Polichetti |
| Novus Arcanum | Michael Maxwell |
| Once Upon a Mulberry Field | C. L. Hoang |
| One Good Eye One Bad | Elizabeth Bevilacqua |
| Outlaws | Allen Cody |
| Painted Oxen | Thomas Qualls |
| Paradox, Utah | Miriam Murcutt |
| Passage From Stockholm | Gene Lassers |
| Persephone Underground | Jennifer Russon |
| Queens of the Flowers: Memories of a Puerto Rican Girl | Delia Cerpa |
| Rani | Sathish Easwaralingam |
| Raptor Canyon | Andrew Baldwin |
| Raven's Plan | Valerie Kime |
| Real Girl | Christopher Stollar |
| Red Danube | David Gluck |
| Redemption's Blood | Chris Webb |
| Reenu-You | Michele Berger |
| Remedy For a Broken Angel | Toni Ann Johnson |
| Resistance Music | Thomas Barnes |
| Richly Drawn | Ulvrik "Wolf" Kraft |
| Road Kill. A Love Story | Jefferson Moody |
| Runaways | Rachel Sawden |
| Safari | Alexander Plansky |
| Saint Wycliffe of Miami Classic | wycliffe tyson |
| Sanguinity Point | Peter Palmieri |
| Savannah Gothic | Paul Foley |
| Saving Bobby: Heroes and Heroin in One Small Community | Renee Hodges |
| Saving Sophie | Debbie Schrack |
| Scarlette: A Gothic Folktale | Davonna Juroe |
| Scenes From The Siege of Doblina | Michael Beiriger |
| Scratch Line | Deb Merino |
| Seen | JG Delegal |
| Send | Patty Blount |
| Sentencing Silence | Kathleen Cecilia Nesbitt |
| Sentimental Surgery | Jorge Saralegui |
| Serinda - Justinian and Theodora | Daniel Cirignani |
| Sex and Samosas | Jasmine Aziz |
| Shadow Masque | Nancy Geyer |
| Sherlock Holmes' Lost Adventure: The True Story of the Giant Rats of Sumatra | Lauren Steinhauer |
| Silent Reaping | P.D. Platt |
| Situations | Angela Goulene |
| Sleep Or Swim | Hannah Martin |
| Solarra: Portal Immortal | Val Tiemann |
| Someone to Watch Over Me | Robert McKean |
| Soul Catcher | Colin Kersey |
| Speak No Evil | Liana Gardner |
| Still Come Home | Katey Schultz |
| Sun, Sand and Single. An American Woman in Saudi Arabia 1960-62 | Nancy Gray |
| Swimming With Scorpions | Gary Levi |
| T.O.R.N.: There's Only Right Now | Ampora Yazdani |
| Temper, CA | Paul Skenazy |
| Tendrils of War | John Sizemore |
| Texas Yankee; Homecoming | Jerry Orange |
| 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 Adventures of Isaiah Ollenu Esquire To Be | Paula Lennon |
| The Adventuress | Lisa Orr |
| The Aikido Sensei and Spook LaRue | Robert Gumpertz |
| The Assisi | Dennis Maulsby |
| The Autopsy of Planet Earth | Robert Emery |
| The B Stream | Darren Searle |
| The Back Nine | Michael Alcorn |
| The Bittersweet Quest of Gilbert Reyes | Michael Pearson |
| The Blue | Climbing Sun |
| The Bounty Huntress | John Riha |
| The Brotherhood of Necessity | Stephen Anastasi |
| The Bunkhouse | Troy Abell |
| The Cavern | Apryl Lopez |
| The Confectionery Sun | Julie Morin |
| The Cupcake Phase | Frankie Mars |
| The Curse of the Romanovs | Staton Rabin |
| The Desire Card | Lee Matthew Goldberg |
| The Devil's Book | Frost McGahey |
| The Devil's Tree | Susan McCauley |
| The Druid | Stephen Anastasi |
| The Earthquake Doll | Candace Williams |
| The End of the Alamo | Anonymous |
| The Epsilon Project: Fall | Graham Elder & Laura Cody |
| The Ex-Mexican Wives Club | Arleen Williams |
| The Exile's Atlas | Sally Younger |
| The Funnies | Paul Mendelson |
| The Gargouille | Xander Bailey |
| The Gender Experiment | L.J. Sellers |
| The God Squad: A Spoof on the Ex-Gay Movement | Rik Isensee |
| The Guardian | Jim Gourley |
| The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse | Keith Hartman |
| The House on Xenia | Rita Moreau |
| The Immortal Gene | Jonas Saul |
| The Inheritants | Kirsty Mackmurdie |
| The Jump Artist | Austin Ratner |
| The Juncture | D.C. Lozar |
| The Key to the Highway | Allyson Rice |
| The Knotted Gun | Mary Vettel |
| The Last Axe | Kate Piersanti |
| The Last Class Action | Daniel Karon |
| The Listening Post: A Daughter, A Father, A War | Becky Ellis |
| The Longest Halloween, Book Three: Gabbie del Toro and the Mystery of the Warlock's Urn | Frank Wood |
| The Lost and Found | Jami Gan |
| The Monkey Idol | Kay McNiven |
| The Mountain Eagle: A Novel of Alfred Hitchcock | Adam Philips |
| The Mystery of the Ming Connection | Crystal Sharpe |
| The Night Weaver | Monique Snyman |
| The Pillars of Coral Gables | Linda Davis |
| The S Word | Paolina Milana |
| The Scythian Trials | Elizabeth Isaacs |
| The Secret Keepers | Chrissy Lessey |
| The Shiva Syndrome | Alan Joshua |
| The Snow Queen's Daughter | Patricia Schwarz |
| The Stillness, The Dancing | Debby Mayer |
| The Uniform | G Gruen |
| The Watchman's Children | Thomas Barnes |
| The White Field | Douglas Cole |
| The Woodcutter | Kate Danley |
| The Xenologist | Christine Daigle |
| The Zygan Emprise Trilogy | Yolanda Reid |
| These Bloodstained Stones | Esther Tenenbaum |
| 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 |
| Three Ways to Disappear | Katy Yocom |
| Through Violet Eyes | Stephen Woodworth |
| Throwing Stones | Robin Reardon |
| Thy Neighbor's Wife | Alex Ferrar |
| Time Trials: H333 | John Allyn |
| Time Warp Acid | Martin Hoerchner |
| Today is the Day | Deborah Curtin |
| Toro! | Frank Schwalbe |
| Total Vision | Letisha Simen |
| Touched with Fire | Christopher Datta |
| Trapped | Kavitha Mandana |
| Trapped by Light and Shadow | J. R . Burnett |
| Trout Rising | Kevin Naughton |
| Tsunami Cowboys | Jadi Campbell |
| Tuki Banjo, Superstar | Ocean Palmer |
| Unfinished Business | Anne Simonet |
| Up North | Abena Sankofa |
| Veil of Secrecy | Margaret Franceschini |
| Violent Violet | Sara Gray |
| Walk Until Sunrise | Jade J. Maze |
| War Serenade | Jill Wallace |
| We Are All Wolves | Noah Mullette-Gillman |
| We... who are not real | Ulvrik "Wolf" Kraft |
| Web of Titans | Adam Perin |
| WeToo: Saving the Men Who Hurt Us to Save Ourselves | Caprice Haverty |
| Whatever Became of Sin? | Barbara Roman |
| When Mr. L Came to Town | Kathleen Ann Buloch |
| Where the Sun Rises | Suzanne Strong |
| Whispered Truth, A novel based on true events of abuse, forgiveness and hope | Cindy L. Smith |
| Who Killed Buster Sparkle? | John Bateman |
| Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives | Anne Michaud |
| Will Rhypen: Couples Counselor | Janan Platt |
| Word is Bone | Christopher Rosales |
| Worthy | Porsha Pogue |
| Wunderland | Les Zig |
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