2022 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on January 19, 2022
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2022 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 700 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on February 16th here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages! And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the Quarterfinalists:
| 'Ink It Over | Rachel Rawlings |
| 17 years: Soldiers of Tomorrow | R'MON JEFFERSON |
| 2394 'Mirrors of the Past' | Pame Roscoe |
| A Blue Forest | Marcus Campbell |
| A Cold Dark Place | Toni Anderson |
| A Most Peculiar Stakeout | Josh Taylor |
| A Reindear Tale | Rosemarie Perry |
| A Savage Joy | Luis Rosas |
| A Talented Man | Henrietta McKervey |
| A Thin Porridge | Benjamin Gohs |
| A Woman's Persuasion | Jeanette Watts |
| Adima Rising | Steve Schatz |
| Alison's Legacy | Toby Heathcotte |
| All's Fair | Amanda Schoolland |
| AMANITA | Robert C. Hall |
| An Unscripted Life | Ellen Leary |
| Andre's Reboot: Striving to Save Humanity | Steve Coleman |
| Andrew, Sinful Seduction Book 1 | Dania Voss |
| Arkfall | Joseph Hall |
| Artificial Intelligence, Mankind at the Brink | Richard Boyd |
| At The Lions Gate | Jeffrey Sommer |
| Bad Blood | Robert Joseph |
| Ballast Point Breakdown | Corey Fayman |
| BENEATH THE VEIL OF SMOKE AND ASH | Tammy Pasterick |
| Best Served Deadly | Lee Ann Ward |
| Billy 9F | David Finley |
| Blood Like Rain | Tracy Ball |
| Brown Skin Girl | Mytrae Meliana |
| Buried in Black | JT Patten |
| BURNING GIRL | Tom Molloy |
| Burnt Pot Island, A Marsh Hammock in its Natural State | Karen Barr |
| By The Dark O' The Moon | Kay Stephens |
| Cala Briste | Caroline Grebbell |
| Carefully Curated | Holly Piper |
| CHARLIE'S PRIDE | Graydon (Dee) Hubbard |
| Chasing Time | Thomas Reilly |
| Cibolero | Kermit Lopez |
| Cold Wallet | Rosy Fenwicke |
| Corner Booth | Billy Hanson |
| Coronavirus and the Holographic Sports Bar | Douglass Quinn |
| Cows Point North | Scott Best |
| Crescent Earth | Ilia Epifanov |
| Crooked Truth | Kristine Anderson |
| Cutterjunk | Julian Hoxter |
| Dancing With Jesus; A Story of Scizophrenia | Mimi Whittaker |
| Dark Forest/short novel | Edward Pittman |
| Daylight Forever | MAHVASH KHAJAVI-HARVEY |
| Dead Before Morning #1 Rafferty & Llewellyn Mystery Series | Geraldine Evans |
| Debt Bomb | Michael Ginsberg |
| Diminished Dreams | Shelby Bentil |
| Don Peyote's Star | Brennan Michaels |
| Don't Shoot The Piano Player | Kevin Engelking |
| Dorinda Trapper of Red Rapids | Fergus Egan |
| Dragon Ripper | Melanie Bacon |
| Drained | Marc Daniel Acriche |
| Dream on the wind | Darya Ahmadi |
| Drown 'Em Like Puppies | Maria Wickens |
| Eli's Coming: A Memoir | Louie Mandrapilias |
| ENHANCED | S.T. Ranscht, Robert Beus |
| Escaping Mercy | Sam Polakoff |
| Everything That Dies | Rusty Davis |
| Faith, Hope, and Dr. Vangelis | Stephen Gordy |
| FAKE - A Finn Teller Novel | Twist Phelan |
| FALLING IN LOVE AND LEARNING TO SAY GOODBYE | Michael Baroto |
| Fear Beyond Reason | Wiliam Douglas |
| FINDING FATHER | Tom Molloy |
| Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale | Bill Zarchy |
| Fit For Duty Novel | kathy kron |
| Flagrant | Camika Spencer |
| Flames | Damond Fudge |
| For Nothing Is Hidden | John Valenti |
| For Their Blood Burns Wild | Silas Barrow, Patrick Brodrick |
| From The Village Of Lucca | JP Roarke |
| Geezerball | Robert Fox |
| Ghost Town | A.J. Thibault |
| Gifted: The Story of a Young Genius | Nishad Gumaste |
| Gods of the Black Gate | Joseph Sale |
| Gold Poplars | Michael Ball |
| Good Town | Mary Wells |
| Gracie's Christmas Cure | Jaynie Higgins |
| Grandma Lou's Wonderfully Weird Christmas Dinner | LINDA LAROCQUE |
| Guised Passage | James Boanerges |
| Hang Your Stockings, Say Your Prayers | Hunter Canedy |
| Hannah's Bliss, part of the Windy City Nights steamy romance series | Dania Voss |
| Havoc | David Rymer |
| Hiatus | Sam Polakoff |
| Honeymoon with Dad | Jeremy Black |
| Hope's Diamond | Rodney Curtis |
| I Hear the Black Raven | Claire Ayetoro |
| I'll Be OK, It's Just a Hole in My Head | Mimi Hayes |
| Ice Fortress | Robert Williams |
| Ice Out | Susan Speranza |
| Illa's Journey | Maja Simeoni Sruk |
| Immortal Alchemy | Pamela Danforth Yaco |
| In the Cradle of Mankind | Tony Irvin |
| Isaac & Junebug | William R. Stone |
| Jason, Lizzy, and the Snowman Village | Charity Marie |
| Jerry Resurrected | Susan Langhorst |
| Jessica's Monster | Tim Connolly |
| Just a Girl in the Whirl | Annie Wood |
| KINDRED, AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY | Anita Johnson |
| Kings Row | Jeffrey Voccola |
| Knights of the Air- Book 1: RAGE! | iain stewart |
| Ladybug | Jeffrey Sommer |
| LAND OF DEMONS: A New Age Dawns | Zachary Sabra |
| Last of the Annamese | Tom Glenn |
| Legacy of Evil | Ed Marohn |
| Life Happens on the Stairs | Amy J Markstahler |
| Lila and Her Demons | Nicole Crowley |
| LIMBO. | Marko Pandza |
| Limestone Waters | John McMahon |
| Lost in Time | Unnamed |
| Lost Track | Frederick R. Weinstein |
| Love and the TSA | Mary Lash |
| Love in the Space of Time | Tony Irvin |
| Lucy in her Secret Wood (A Story Inspired by Wordsworth's wild child Lucy Gray) | Christina M. Pages |
| Maju from the Mountain | Claude Rolle |
| MAKEOVERS | Rex John |
| Marked Exchange | Anjula Evans |
| MATAMOROS: Civil War Adventure, Romance and Espionage in an Old West Border Town | James Kahn |
| Meet Love Through My Eyes | DeAnna Alexander |
| Metal Mouth | Jaimie Engle |
| Miranda and the D-Day Caper | Shelly Frome |
| Miss Minnie's Boarding House | Bonnie Ilyse Tunick |
| Monet & Oscar: The Essence of Light | Joe Byrd |
| Move-In Ready | Olivia Holborn |
| Mule Girl | Clark Parsons |
| Murderous Spirit: A Jack Tyrrell Novel | Geoff Loftus |
| My Truth | Sandra J. Paul |
| Nandria's War | MaryJane Nordgren |
| Netherrealm Book 1 Heed the Darkness | Kim Michelle Ross |
| Night at the Bookstore | Eric Gershman |
| Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops | Allison Hong Merrill |
| No Mercy! A Witch Clan Saga | Aaron Smothers |
| No Soul Knows | Yusuf Delorenzo |
| novel: Katch a Killer, Save the World | Mel Goldberg |
| Oceanworlds | J.P. Landau |
| Oddball Ornaments and the Story of Christmas | Terry Overton |
| ON THE RUN | Dennis Smith |
| One More Season: The Birth of Football's Modern Spread Offense | Lorin Fife |
| Operation Dove | Josh Taylor |
| Operation Stealth Seed | George Amabile |
| Orphanage Earth | D.C. Lozar |
| Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown | Annie Dawid |
| Partner Pursuit | Kathy Strobos |
| Partners | Thomas Molloy |
| Perfectly Imperfect | Courtney Dinkins |
| Piano in the Dark | Ed Thompson |
| Queen of Angels | David Castro |
| Quint | Dionne Irving |
| REAP | Frank Edwards |
| Relic | Andre Jones |
| Rendered Safe: Tales of an NYPD Bomb Tech | Jeff Ingber |
| Ring of Conspiracy | Justin (J. Robert) Kinney |
| Rogue Assassins | Shaheera Huggins |
| Run Scout Run | Christopher Datta |
| Sabal Palms and the Southern Squall | Terry Overton |
| Sacred Mounds | Jim Metzner |
| Sadhana | Phil Ribera |
| San Francisco File | Phil Ribera |
| Seashell Virgin | Steve Schatz |
| SELF-CHECKOUT | Sarah Karabelski |
| Sentient | Victor Acquista |
| Seoul Food | Sarai Koo |
| Shaman | Sam Polakoff |
| Shanghaied | David Paul Collins |
| Silenced | Sherry Wong |
| Silencing Sharks | John Hope |
| Skein | Matt Sylvester |
| Slip of the Hand | Joe Farrell |
| SONS OF SILENCE | Britney Paterson |
| Stalker Stalked | Lee Matthew Goldberg |
| Station | Jarrett Early |
| Stories From The Stoop | Steve Bernstein |
| Sweet Valley Spy | Sierra Hall |
| Tagged | Jonnie Guernsey |
| TARO | Blue Spruell |
| Tasty Interludes | Karen Jacobsen |
| TEL AVIV’S ETHIOPIAN QUEEN | Albert Russo, Jeanette |
| TENT CITY | Amy L. Bernstein |
| Thaniel's Crossing | Tim Connolly |
| The Aberrant Inquisitor | Justin Fox |
| The Accidental Time Traveller | sylvia Bluck |
| The Alchemy of Noise | Lorraine Devon Wilke |
| The Archer's Thread | Noel Zamot |
| THE BAD GUY'S SISTER | JOHN MCMILLAN |
| The Bookish Dark | Matthew Brady |
| The Broken Ones | Mark Higgins |
| The Camp | Greg Hair |
| The Carnal Agenda | Lexi Zee |
| The City Beautiful | Aden Polydoros |
| The City of Drowned Angels | David Crowther |
| The Clash Inside Me | Kelly Alblinger, John Mondragon |
| The Clearing | Tom Deady |
| The Coal Miner's War Novel | Randall Reese |
| The Coffiner of Escondido | Kirk Jones |
| The Coin and the Key | Fergus Egan |
| The Corn Bandits | John Rutherford |
| The Dark Easy | Michael Crame |
| The Defections | Hannah Michell |
| The Devil's Bookkeepers: The Noose | Mark Newhouse |
| The Devil's Crossing | Hana Cole |
| THE DOLLS HOUSE | JEAN MAYE |
| The Doula | Bridget Boland |
| The Eagle Order | Judy L Mohr |
| The Easter Confession | Charles Monagan |
| The Eastern Window | Claude Rolle |
| The Enchanted Deer and the Dreams of the Fool | Clark Gillian Van Herrewege |
| The Enigma Factor | Breakfield and Burkey |
| The Final Coming | Samuel Frandino |
| THE FIRST FAERIE DETECTIVE | Robert Bridge |
| The Ghosts of Okuma | Mitch Wieland |
| The Glesh | Timothy Blagge |
| The Guardian's Legacy | Book 1 Coin of Time series | Luciana Cavallaro |
| The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice | Trisha Pritikin |
| The Hawley Book of the Dead | Chrysler Szarlan |
| The Hillbilly Debutante Cafe | Angel Christo |
| The Hollowing of Lady Abigail Hector | Neil Flinchbaugh |
| THE KING OF COLORED TOWN novel | Darryl Wimberley |
| THE KING OF COLORED TOWN novel | Darryl Wimberley |
| The Kingdom on the Bayou | Jace Austin |
| The Land of Sunshine and Hell, A Memoir of a '60's Unwed Mother | Maxene Raices |
| The Last Checkout | Peter Besson |
| The Last Gypsy Princess | Alan Larson |
| The Lockhart Women | Mary Camarillo |
| The Lodestar | Daniel Hagedorn |
| The Longest Halloween, Book Three: Gabbie del Toro and the Mystery of the Warlock's Urn | Frank Wood |
| The missing link | Moriamo Onabanjo |
| THE MONSTER HYPOTHESIS | Romily Bernard |
| The Motel Murder | Emerson Littlefield |
| The Other Madisons | Bettye Kearse |
| The Parallel | Andrea Franco Cook |
| The Paris Connection | Lorraine Brown |
| The Paris Predicament | Sasha Lauren |
| The Poet | Stephanie Jo Harris |
| The Power of Being Seen | roger saillant |
| The Priest, the Witch & the Poltergeist | Barbara Wade Rose |
| The Proto Sapien Protocol | George Carvalho |
| The Raven's Conjuring: Scourge of Damnation | Miguel Garcia |
| The Street Between the Pines | Joe Alo |
| The Summer Girl | Katherine Hill Brown |
| The Ticket | Fred Shackelford |
| The True Story of ‘The Richest Kid in School’ (including my father’s murder, political corruption and the mansion fire that exposed it all) | Moses Frenck |
| The Viral Solution | Rino Di Stefano |
| THE WALL | David Pereda |
| The Watsons | Rose Servitova |
| The Winter Fox | Timothy Johnson |
| The Witch of Belle Fleur - Telenovela Actress Turned Witch OWNVOICES | Isabelle Hardesty |
| The Witch's Cookbook | Vee James |
| The Worthy Negotiation | Kenneth Allen |
| Theia | Susan Carpenter |
| Thirteen Sections | Lin Jin |
| This Land Divided | Carolyn Howard-Johnson |
| Three colors of the rainbow : Arco’s fabled Paris, Venice and New York | Albert Russo |
| Three Degrees: Book 1 of Tempestas series | Jim Wurst |
| Two Close: a story of survival (Jolt Survival Trilogy, Book 2) | Roberta M Roy |
| Victim of the Defense | Marianne Woolbert-Maxwell |
| War of the World Makers | Reilly Michaels |
| WARRIORS OF HALLAN | EVI PHOTOPOULOS |
| Wayward Girls | Penny Koepsel |
| We All Wore Blue | Emerson Robbins |
| We Arrive Uninvited | Jen Knox |
| When the Dead are Razed | Samuel Martin |
| When the dead dream | Mel Hartman |
| When The Sun Rises | Casi Scott |
| Where We Go From Here | Matthew Haynes |
| Wild Joy | Paula Brancato |
| Winds of Perversion | Tim Blagge |
| Worldmaker of Yand - Polaris | Andri Elia |
| Worldmaker of Yand - Yildun | Andri Elia |
| Worth More Dead | Anne Hawley |
| Zak Corbin and the Master of Machines | Tony Russo |
| Zebra. Friends by Fate. Enemies by Desitiny. | Jill Wallace |
| Zenith (The Interscission Project: Book 1) | Arshad Ahsanuddin |
| Zig Zag Woman | Roberta Tracy |
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