2019 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition Semifinalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on February 12, 2020

Listed below are the semifinalists 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 finalists and winners 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 2020, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.

Here are the semifinalists:

*A Dream for Love*	Lisa Belcastro
*A Field of Red*	Greg Enslein
*A Scarcity of Condors*	Suanne Laqueur
*Abandoned In Hell*	Marvin Wolf
*Alien Ways*	David Rank
*An Audience for Einstein*	Mark Wakely
*Anna Incognito*	Laura Preble
*Annaliese From Off*	Lindy Carter
*Anvil of God*	Joe Gleason
*Any Summer Sunday at Nacho Mama's Patio Cafe: Drag, Songs, Friends, Laughs, Lies, Danger & Redemption*	Steven Schatz
*Beauty and the Freak*	Jackie Bateman
*Before the Court of Heaven*	Jack Mayer
*Betsy and The Emperor*	Staton Rabin
*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*	Unnamed
*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
*Chief of Station*	John Shea
*Cowboy Code*	Louella Bryant
*Death by the River*	Alexandrea Weis & Lucas Astor
*Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss, A Memoir*	Emily Freeman
*Fantastik*	C. A. McGroarty
*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
*Gifts of the Sky Warrior*	Noel Justice
*God's Playground*	Cheryl Skory Suma
*Heartbreak and Rage: Ten Years Under Sun Myung Moon: A Cult Survivor's Memoir*	Gordon Neufeld
*Hellbowl, Nevada*	Jason Lerner
*Ho Ho Ho*	Ulvrik "Wolf" Kraft
*Hysterical Love*	Lorraine Devon Wilke
*I Am Venus*	Barbara Mujica
*In the Time of Spirits*	Beth Ford
*It Takes Death to Reach a Star*	Stu Jones & Gareth Worthington
*JDP*	Ron Burch
*Jihadi Bride*	Alastair Luft
*Jinxed*	Thommy Hutson
*Lenore's Last Funeral*	Joshua Donellan
*Lilith Land*	Colleen Markley
*Love is Louder*	Susan Hahn
*Malawi's Sisters*	Melanie Hatter
*Marina & the Science Club*	Maria Sideris-Ishimaru
*Memory Road*	Martin McSweeney
*Minyan: Ten Jewish Men in a World That is Heartbroken*	Eliezer Sobel
*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
*No Color but the Light*	Daria Polichetti
*Novus Arcanum*	Michael Maxwell
*One Good Eye One Bad*	Elizabeth Bevilacqua
*Passage From Stockholm*	Gene Lassers
*Queens of the Flowers: Memories of a Puerto Rican Girl*	Delia Cerpa
*Rani*	Sathish Easwaralingam
*Raptor Canyon*	Andrew Baldwin
*Raven's Plan*	Valerie Kime
*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
*Scenes From The Siege of Doblina, Part 1*	Michael Beiriger
*Scratch Line*	Deb Merino
*Send*	Patty Blount
*Sex and Samosas*	Jasmine Aziz
*Sleep Or Swim*	Hannah Martin
*Solarra: Portal Immortal*	Val Tiemann
*Soul Catcher*	Colin Kersey
*Still Come Home*	Katey Schultz
*Swimming With Scorpions*	Gary Levi
*T.O.R.N.: There's Only Right Now*	Ampora Yazdani
*Temper, CA*	Paul Skenazy
*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 Autopsy of Planet Earth*	Robert Emery
*The B Stream*	Darren Searle
*The Bittersweet Quest of Gilbert Reyes*	Michael Pearson
*The Bounty Huntress*	John Riha
*The Bunkhouse*	Troy Abell
*The Confectionery Sun*	Julie Morin
*The Curse of the Romanovs*	Staton Rabin
*The Desire Card*	Lee Matthew Goldberg
*The Devil's Tree*	Susan McCauley
*The Epsilon Project: Fall*	Graham Elder & Laura Cody
*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 Jump Artist*	Austin Ratner
*The Juncture*	D.C. Lozar
*The Key to the Highway*	Allyson Rice
*The Last Axe*	Kate Piersanti
*The Last Class Action*	Daniel Karon
*The Listening Post: A Daughter, A Father, A War*	Becky Ellis
*The Lost and Found*	Jami Gan
*The Scythian Trials*	Elizabeth Isaacs
*The Shiva Syndrome*	Alan Joshua
*The Stillness, The Dancing*	Debby Mayer
*The Uniform*	G. Gruen
*The Woodcutter*	Kate Danley
*The Xenologist*	Christine Daigle
*The Zygan Emprise Trilogy*	Yolanda Reid
*Thirty Below*	Harry Groome
*This Is How I Save My Life: From California to India*	Amy Scher
*This Is the Dead Land*	Chelsea Judy
*Three Ways to Disappear*	Katy Yocom
*Through Violet Eyes*	Stephen Woodworth
*Touched with Fire*	Christopher Datta
*Tsunami Cowboys*	Jadi Campbell
*Tuki Banjo, Superstar*	Ocean Palmer
*Violent Violet*	Sara Gray
*War Serenade*	Jill Wallace
*Web of Titans*	Adam Perin
*Where the Sun Rises*	Suzanne Strong
*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