2023 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on January 11, 2023
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 1,000 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:
| 180 Degrees Magnetic | Jim Schoendaller, Jeanne Stein |
| A Backpack, a Chair and a Beard | Eamon Wood |
| A Bite of Paris | Bethany Maines |
| A Hobo in the White House | John Bateson |
| A House Down Queer Street | Neshantha Harischandra |
| A House of God | Eric David |
| A Phantasm in Time | Raymond Qualls |
| All the Awful Wondrous Things | Andrew MacDonald |
| All the Idle Weeds That Grow | Brian Koukol |
| An Accident | Sean Kearney |
| Ancient of Genes | Dan Gallagher |
| Another Happy Day | David Weisberg |
| As Wing Unfurl | Arthur Doweyko |
| Azalea House | Clare Castleberry |
| Beachcomb Has A Story | Nsikan Udokang |
| Beast Mom | Kim Imas |
| BLEED THROUGH | Nina (pen: Ayin) Reimer (pen: Weaver) |
| BODIE | Anne Sweazy-Kulju |
| Bone Fruit | Alexa Dodd |
| Bones in the Wash | John Barry |
| Born Under a Bad Sign | Rachel Rawlings |
| Broken Record | Unnamed |
| Brown Skin Girl | Mytrae Meliana |
| Canaryville | Charlie Newton |
| Caper Crush | Kathy Strobos |
| Chuck Masters' Body of Work | D. Eric Paster |
| Cibolero | Kermit Lopez |
| Closer Would Be Better | Greta Gize |
| Cocaine to Bain: Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll and the Inside Story of the Hollywood Guitar Center | Taylor Van Arsdale |
| Crossroad Blues | Ariel Slick |
| Cults of L.A. | D.W. Cropper |
| Cultus Perfectus | Jason Harris |
| Damaged Goods | Debbi Mack |
| Dark Dweller | Gareth Worthington |
| Dark Whispers | Karen Sandler |
| Dead Air | Scott Lettieri |
| Dead Man's Wine | P.K. Simpson |
| Death Comes For Christmas | Pamela Donison |
| Death Over Troubled Water | Nicholas Ponticello |
| Deep Waters | Yolanda Reid |
| Divine Play: An Epic with Commercials | Thomas Ukinski |
| Dog Lovers | Richard Martin |
| Drown 'Em Like Puppies | Maria Wickens |
| Edwin and the Climbing Boys | Benita Cullingford |
| Empty Cupboards | Stacey Powells Lyster |
| Endpoint: Confluence | J.W. Griffin |
| Exile Music | Jennifer F Steil |
| Fall of the Angels | Jon King |
| Farley's Angel | Mackenzie Kyle |
| Fidele | Jenna Brown |
| Finding Him | Vann Chow, Vanessa Lawry |
| FOG COAST RUNAWAY | Linda B Myers |
| Forgive Us Our Trespasses: A Memoir of a Jewish Teacher in a Catholic School | Diane Gensler |
| Fragments of Quinn | Peggi Peacock |
| FROM THE VILLAGE OF LUCCA | JP Roarke |
| Fruit of the Devil | Mary Flodin |
| Future Skinny | Peter Rosch |
| Ghost Agents | Nita DeBorde |
| Girls, Crimes, and the Ruling Body | Barry Ziman |
| Girly Stuff, Inc. It's Personal | Carmen Ayala Brown |
| Goodbye Heiko Goodbye Berlin | Owen Levy |
| Gravity is Green | David Zaccaria |
| Gray Song | Sean Johnson |
| Habitan - The Parallel Place | Cheryl Skory Suma |
| Heart Like A Hole | Paula C. Deckard |
| Heart-Shaped Friendship | Andrea Barros |
| HERMOSA BEACH | Peter Melaragno |
| Hey Jude | Kathleen Stone |
| HOLLYWOOD ENDING | Jon Lindstrom |
| Hubris: Book 1 of the Siren Tragedies | Sarah Hines |
| Hunted | Alex Croft |
| Hyacinth House | Justin Stoeckel |
| Illa's Journey | Maja Simeoni Sruk |
| In Far Off And Distant Times: Songs and Stories of a Life Cut Short | Daniel B. Thomas |
| In Pursuit of Excellence | James Akagami |
| Into the Mind | Arturo Corces |
| Into The Void | Unnamed |
| Jazzed | Jill Dearman |
| Jin Village | Vincent Stoia |
| Journey of a Cotton Blossom | Jennifer Crocker-Villegas |
| LAB SPILL | Robert Rife |
| Lady Vigilante | Hayley Camille |
| Laid by the Buzzard, Hatched by the Sun - (Novella) | Geaux Francois |
| Land of the Setting Sun | Anna Göransdottir |
| Last Liar Standing | Danielle M. Wong |
| Letters from Tehran | Kuros Charney |
| Letters to Young Carlos | Carlos Valenzuela |
| Like A Hero | Michael J Bowler |
| Lila and Her Demons | Nicole Crowley |
| Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap | Sean March |
| Long Lost | Kent Mitchell |
| Lost Angels | Jason Morgan |
| Love is Louder - Novella | Susan Hahn |
| Lyle 129 | Scott Zugnoni |
| Made in Sardinia | Cristina Pippa |
| MAGGIE'S DRAWERS | Staton Rabin |
| Maple Grove | Daniel Buell |
| Merlyn's Mistake | Dylan Brody |
| Mesmerized | David-Matthew Barnes |
| Miss del Río: A Novel of Dolores del Río, the first major Latina star in Hollywood | Barbara Mujica |
| Mother May I | S. E. Green |
| MOTHER ONCE REMOVED | Ellen Leary |
| Mud Pie | Roger Greene |
| must have GSOH | Paul A. Mendelson |
| Mystic | Jason Denzel |
| NARKOLEPRO | Atari Ramone |
| No Guns in Little Cavern | Craig Sholl |
| NO ORDINARY LIFE: African Awakenings | Mary A. Byron |
| October: A Novel | William Auten |
| ODDS | Tambler Wallace |
| OFF THE YOGA MAT | Cheryl J. Fish |
| On Lonesome Roads | Dan Flanigan |
| One Hundred Years of War | Anitha Perinchery |
| One Monsoon in Mumbai | Anitha Perinchery |
| Painting Sunsets | Stephen Evans |
| Peace I Leave | J.H. Sackett |
| Perdition Kingdom | Ryan Norris |
| Pharoni | Colin Dodds |
| Pike Fox | Melanie Brown |
| Pizza Boy | Jordan Dee Crabtree |
| Playtime at the Bagh | Reenita Hora |
| QUEST | Marcia Zina Mager |
| Real Men Play Football | Andrew Bumstead |
| Ring | Michelle Lerner |
| River of Ashes | Alexandrea Weis, Lucas Astor |
| RIVER WOMAN, RIVER DEMON | Jennifer Givhan |
| Roma Amor: A Novel of Caligula's Rome | Sherry Christie |
| Running Home | Danielle Merchant |
| Sail Day: Based on a True Story | Terri Von Doran |
| Santa Claus Conquers the Homophobes | Robert Devereaux |
| Second Coming | Matt Rayl |
| Seven Locks | Christine Wade |
| SEX PARTNER #9 | Sanyee Yuan |
| Shadow Realm | Reenita Hora |
| SHADOWEN | Matthew Dixon |
| Sisters of Castle Leod | Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard |
| Sleep Warrior | Sandi Jerome |
| Souls by the Sea | Jennifer F Arthur |
| STROBE LIFE | Thomas Atkinson |
| Suffer! | Ann Sloan |
| Tales of Sebastian | Robert Dinsmoor |
| Tanglewood | Shirley Petro-Timura |
| The Adventures of Isaiah Ollenu Esquire To Be | Paula Lennon |
| The Algorithm Will See You Now | JL Lycette |
| The Art of Letting Go | Jason Chan |
| The Artificial Afterlife: Condemned To Heaven | Wayne Wiggins |
| The Augmented Man | Joseph Carrabis |
| The Boy Who Went Magic | Andrew Parrott |
| The Boys Who Woke Up Early | A.D. Hopkins |
| The Brothers Winkelstein and the Homburg Hat | Guy Polin |
| The Chancer | Fiona Graham |
| The Chateau | Tiffany Reisz Shaffer |
| The Darkness | Robbi Bryant |
| The Dead Chip Syndicate | Andrew Pearson |
| The Death Dealers | Matthew Doggett |
| The Disenchantment of Marnie Macbeth | Matthew Brady |
| The Diver | Samsun Knight |
| The Dream Maker | Igor Bede |
| The Eye of the Storm | Brad Hutchinson |
| The Fall of Bellwether | Chad Broughman |
| The Fifth Horseman | Jon Smith |
| The Finished Man | Sean W Murphy |
| The Forever Moment | Paul A Mendelson |
| The Girl Without a Voice | Sandra J. Paul |
| The Goddess with the Jade Skirt | Marissa Silva |
| The Greatest Escape, a True American Civil War Adventure | douglas Miller |
| The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled | J.E. Haddock |
| The Hands of Enemies - Book One of the Speed of Light Series | Roger Greene |
| The Hate Lovers | Staton Rabin |
| The Hollowing of Lady Abigail Hector | Neil Flinchbaugh |
| The Illustrator's Daughter | Gideon Burrows |
| The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman | Robin Gregory |
| The Judas Apocalypse | Dan McNeil |
| The Magic of a Billionaire | Marie Higgins |
| The Method | Duncan Ralston |
| The Mime | Tommy Tutalo |
| The Most Important Thing | Michelle Matthews |
| The Mysterious Disappearance of Colby Blue | Eric Vasallo |
| The Myth of the West | Katie Li |
| The New Motel | Tambler Wallace |
| THE OPHANIM | James Dillon |
| The Penalty for Prying | Michelle Cullen |
| The Pirate of Souls | Caroline Strong |
| The Price of Silence | Ulla Hakanson |
| The Priest, the Witch & the Poltergeist | Barbara Wade Rose |
| The Quarter Queen | Kayla Hardy |
| The Rapier | Fritz Monde |
| The Redemption Wall | Marcus Miller |
| The Rich Man's Game | Josh Taylor |
| The Scouts of St Michael OPERATION ARCHANGEL | Dan Morales |
| The Second Law: Lynn Dayton Thriller #3 | L.A. Starks |
| The Seer | Raquel Levitt |
| THE SOUND OF STARLIGHT | Steffany Marynovska |
| The Soundtrack of DJ | Mario Quimiro |
| The Stolen Souls of Butchers Cove | Ron McDougall |
| The Stories We Cannot Tell | Leslie A. Rasmussen |
| The Strange Land Trilogy | Ben Anderson |
| The Strawberry Revolt | Andrew Daley |
| The Take-Over Friend | Carol Dines |
| The Time of New Weather | Sean W Murphy |
| The Triggerfish South | D. E. Asher |
| The Trinity Rivers Trilogy | K Blanton Brenner |
| The Wanted Lawman | Anita Smith |
| The Witch Awakening | Karen Nilsen |
| The Wonder-Filled Norah Minh Lê | Neena Phan |
| The Woodland Adventures of Lucy and Will (Book 2 The Lucy Series) | Christina M. Pages |
| The Zombie Autopsies | steven schlozman |
| They Became Silent: Book 1 | LaShawn Evans |
| They Became Silent: Book 2 | LaShawn Evans |
| Thicker Than Water | Agee Nix |
| Things We Do for Love | Nannette Holliday |
| 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 |
| Till the Sun Grows Cold | John Bebout |
| Time Trials: H333 | John Allyn |
| To Be Free: The Life and Times of Nate Luck | Lloyd Mullins |
| Toby's Tale | Jennifer Freedman |
| Train Games, the Girl in the Red Vynal Coat | Claude Brickell |
| TWYLA WARBIRD | T.W. BELLEN |
| Under the Meadow | William Parolini |
| VIVA LOST VEGAS | Shelly Steig |
| Waiting for You | Marie Higgins |
| Ward | Kyle Waller |
| We Arrive Uninvited | Jen Knox |
| When Eddy Fell Off The Building | Carol Lazare |
| When Lions Roar | Karen Gruber |
| WHEN SILENCE SCREAMS | Mark Edward Langley |
| When the Walls Came Down | Beauregard Sinclair |
| Where We Go From Here | Matthew Haynes |
| Whispers of a Gypsy | JT Patten |
| Who Let the Wallflowers Out? | Virginia Austin |
| Why I Hate My Friends | Michael Buzzelli |
| Windswept | Lywood Shiva Sawyer |
| Wolf Summer | William Burke |
| WRITTEN ALL OVER ME | Duygu Balan |
| XOVA7 | Quanah Hicks |
| Zero School: Maddy's Secret History | Jamie Ruddy |
| ZIGZAG GIRL | RUTH KNAFO SETTON |
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