2024 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition Quarterfinalists

by ScreenCraft on January 17, 2024

Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2024 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition. These exceptional books were selected from almost 600 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 7th on our blog and on our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram 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:

*4,284 Miles*	Roger Greene
*A Blind Eye*	Alan Larson
*A Certain Darkness*	Sandra J. Paul
*A Gentle Tyranny*	Jessie Minassian
*A Stitch in Crime*	Brian Smith
*A Wasp at a Funeral*	Shelby Renjifo
*Absinthe’s Embrace*	Dana Arlien
*Across the Lake: A Novel of the Holocaust and Ravensbrück*	Patrick Hicks
*Afraid to Hope*	Sutton Bishop
*Angel of Death*	Peter Gray
*As Luck Would Have It*	Jason Mueller
*Assassins Are Us*	Kimberly Van Sickle
*At The End Of Every Day*	Arianna Reiche
*At the West Pole*	Thomas Johnson
*Bad River*	Ken Brosky
*Barren*	JJ Savaunt
*Being a Witch and Other Things I Didn't Ask For*	Sara Pascoe
*Blaze and the Subatomic Sweatmobile of Doom*	Laurie Boyle Crompton
*Bloodbound*	David Goodliffe
*BORDERLAND*	Thomas Barnes
*BROTHERS OF BLOOD: A New Orleans Vampyre Novella*	JT Patten
*Building You Up, the Novel & Soundtrack*	Alexandra Aller
*But I Knew You*	Tara Wallace
*Call Me Alice*	Jennifer Jensen
*Chasing Ghosts: Strays and Waifs*	Mandy Hager
*Cosmonaut Down*	Kirk Rafferty
*COUNTDOWN*	Sian M. Williams
*Couples Retreat*	Lorraine Brown
*Crowns of Capfici*	Carol Bass
*Daughter*	Kathryn Smith
*Dead People*	Douglas Rappaport
*Eating, My Life*	Ronan Ryan
*Elliot: The Return to Roswell*	RJ Reaver
*Engelstatt*	Samuel Church
*Escaping Praelium*	Andrew Furstenberg
*Featuring Fred Halsted*	Lauren Halsted
*Finding Home (Hungary, 1945)*	dean cycon
*Florence and the Nightly Gale*	Annalisa Om
*Fragments: The Revelation*	Chris Cole
*From The Village Of Lucca*	JP Roarke
*Game of the Gods*	G.G. McKay
*Genesis Mortalis, Book 1 of the Take It Trilogy*	Ashlea Hearn
*Germs of War*	Ketan Desai
*Ghostface Killer*	M Never
*Gone To Ground*	Morgan Hatch
*Goode Luck*	Charlotte Tressler
*Hacksaw and Brick*	Damon DiMarco, Shahab Gharib
*Heaven Ride: Sojourn of Souls*	Kerry Gleason, John Eccleston
*Her Knight at the Museum*	Bryn Donovan
*Her Team*	Jane Newcomer
*Howl of the Hunted*	JT Patten
*I Knew You Then*	Kelly Kirwan
*Identity Check*	Richard Jones
*Lady Roosevelt's Moonshine Library*	Ryan Byrnes
*Leopold, The Lion's Den Series*	Dania Voss
*Love Lost on Cloud 9*	K.C. Brote
*Love Travels*	Yanik Nichols
*Lovely in Eyes Not Hers*	Rebecca Mlinek
*M.I.L.A.*	Josh Taylor
*March of the Colossus*	John McDermott
*Misplaced*	Sylvia Hulen-Wright
*Moon. Robot. Mysteries.*	Andrew Parrott
*Mormon Exodus*	Beth Andelin
*Murder at Sleeping Tiger*	Cedar Koons
*Notice*	Kenneth Allen
*On The Surface*	Rachel McGuire
*Only One Of Us*	Vann Chow, Vanessa Lawry
*Opening the Bodies*	J.M. Schuberth
*Out of Body: Master of the Archons*	Christopher Chater
*Pappus - The Saga of a Jewish Family*	Sherwin Gluck
*Personal Demons*	L. R. Braden
*Private Good Luck*	Sherwin Gluck
*Reap the Wind*	Joel Burcat
*Rip'd: A Tall Tale*	Joachim Blunck
*Rise of the Protector*	Winn Taylor
*Savage Gambit*	Michael J. Alcorn
*Savonne, Not Vonny*	Robin Lovelace
*Sea-monkeys*	Patricia Fernandez de Castro
*Seducing the Spy*	KT Pek
*Seed*	Amy L. Bernstein
*Siciliana: A Novel*	Carlo Treviso
*Sierra's Justice*	Eileen Magill
*Smilin' Sam's Corn Maze*	Stephanie perry
*Something I Am Not*	Cher Gatto
*Spy Sisters*	Melissa Milich
*Still Come Home*	Katey Schultz
*Tessa's Heart: A Texas Story*	Jackie Lewis
*The Odyssey of Mrs. Naomi Billingsley*	Sally Stevens
*The Abduction of Adrienne Berg*	Cheri Krueger
*The Antidote*	Andrew Baldwin
*The Artifacts: Book 1.0 - Rise of the Hunters*	Matt Seroski
*The Ascenditure*	Robyn Dabney
*The Awakenings*	Sylvia Westphal
*The Backstitch*	Aaron Bleyaert
*The Boss is Dead*	Ron Pullins
*The Broken Hallelujah*	Wendy Adair
*The Challenger*	Anders Aaslund
*The Coordinate*	Marc Jacobs
*The Decoy*	Chloe Archambault
*The Devil's Paintbrush*	SL Wolfson
*The Difference Maker*	Steffi Halow
*The Dogs of Brownsville*	Stan Weisleder
*The Endless Scroll*	Justin Chavez
*The Favoured Son*	Carol Schneider
*The Feather's Push*	Noel Zamot
*The Funny Moon*	Chris Lincoln
*The Greatest Escape, a True American Civil War Adventure*	Douglas Miller
*The Grotesque*	Sean Foy
*The Harvest Thieves*	Thomas Barnes
*The Huxian Fox*	Nikki Brooke
*The In-Between*	Teresa Manning
*The Junkyard*	Bryan Reilly
*The Key to Infinity*	Morrie Cordero
*The Kill Registry*	Brian Howlett
*The Last Prince of Atlantis*	Leonard Clifton
*The Lease of Nature*	Anderson Boyd
*The Manhattan Swindle*	Anitha Perinchery
*The Pale*	Alex Shifman
*The Parallel*	Andrea Franco Cook
*The Playgroup*	Nelsie Spencer
*The Pookalam Forest*	June Sullivan
*The Rag Princess*	Leif Eric Johnson
*The Secrets We Buried*	Becca Day
*The Shadow*	Kevin Ranville
*The Silent Count*	EA Smiroldo
*The Trial of Salliniquai (A prequel)*	Stella Fletton
*The Warlock & The Comedian*	Devin Crittenden
*The Watchman's Children*	Thomas Barnes
*The World Is But a Broken Heart*	Michael Maitland
*Then and Now*	Caroline Chidester
*Those People Behind Us*	Mary Camarillo
*Thrive: Ghosts in the Glades*	Staci Andrea
*Turn of the Tide*	Carol Busby
*Unnatural Descendant: Secrets Revealed*	Kate Porter
*Until It Shimmers*	Alec Scott
*UnVeiled*	Kimiye Kawashima Triggs
*Wasted Hours in the Sloppy P Sand*	Elan Maier
*Welcome To California / From L.A. County Jail to #1 in Sales*	Sandra Boszko
*Where I Can Breathe*	Hays Blinckmann
*Where the Winds Bellow*	Constanza Chesnott
*Wildball*	Brian Engles
*Zak VS Zombies*	Elisa Eliot
*Zero Two Hundred Hours: A fact-Based Military Thriller*	Eric Wentz