2021 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition Quarterfinalists
Vesuvian Titles reached the quarterfinals in the following categories:
Horror — Dark Country, Sisters of the Moon
Adventure — 7th Grade Revolution
Here is the complete list of Quarterfinalists:
| “Just Another Girl on the Road” | S. Kensington |
| 7th Grade Revolution | Liana Gardner |
| 80 Years Till Death: Sex, Drugs, and Osteoporosis | JP LeRoux |
| A Blind Eye | Alan Larson |
| A Feigned Madness | Tonya Mitchell |
| A Fondness for Beetles | Rebekah Heaney |
| A Heart on the River | John Bauer |
| A-Luring We Will go | Barbara Milton |
| Acts of Hope: Part 2 of The Inquisition Trilogy | Martin Elsant |
| Ahriman’s Mirror | Dawn Peterson |
| Alaska Flight | Betty Kuffel |
| Algorythmic | Larry Rosenthal |
| All Creatures Here Below | Ryan Stevens |
| All Junkies Float | Clarke Wainikka |
| All the Pretty Shoes | Marianne R Klein |
| All Their Yesterdays | Karen Mireau |
| Amarok | Angela Townsend |
| American Female: A true tale of adventure | Emily Timmerman |
| Among Kings | Joey O’Connor |
| And For Your Information | Denise Deegan |
| And One Day My Stars Will Burn | Damon Ferrara |
| Angus MacBain and The Island Of Sleeping Kings | Angela Townsend |
| Asher and Stacey’s Magnificent Road Trip | Stacey Cohen-Maitre |
| Aurora and the Thief | Becky Bird |
| Autumn’s Captive | Kelda Poynot |
| Bad Elf | John Rae |
| Bear Trap | Cullen Thomas |
| Before the Court of Heaven | Jack Mayer |
| Ben, The Boy From Nowhere | Ian Hart |
| Beneath | Simon James Wood |
| Benson Family Secrets | Sean Armstrong |
| Best Interests of the Child | Paul Bouchard |
| Beyond Belief – Heroes of the Holocaust | Dee White |
| Bird and Shadow | Mhairead MacLeod |
| Black Donnelly, Rats and Pigs | Fergus Egan |
| Black Hands In Red Lands | Larry Baer |
| Black, White, and Red All Over | Deeann Mathews |
| Blessed are the Heroes | Ed Mattson |
| Blood & Bitcoin | L.A. Witt |
| BloodLaw | Blaise Ramsay |
| Bocas a novel | Thomas M. Barron |
| Bough Breaks | Katherine Vaz |
| Breaking Twig | Deborah Epperson |
| Breathe | Eileen Hornback |
| Breathe | Brionna Nijah |
| Bunker 10 | Jan-Andrew Henderson |
| Cam & Beau | Maria Cichosz |
| Came A Creature | David Dalessandro |
| Captive | Loraine Anderson |
| Censorettes | Elizabeth Bales Frank |
| Chasing Nirvana | Ellyn Oaksmith |
| Children of the Revolution | Trevor Colgan |
| Chilly | Robert Sweet |
| City of Bridges – The Seven Portals series | Andre Jones |
| Clean Burn | Karen Sandler |
| Cleaning Up Finn | Sarah M. Chen |
| Colombo: The unsolved murder | Don Capria |
| Cormorant Lake | Faith Merino |
| Couldn’t Quit | Alan Mack |
| Coyote: Evelyn’s Tribulation | Glenn Garrett |
| CrossTown | Loren Cooper |
| Crown Prince: Book One of New Blood | W.D. Kilpack III |
| Crushing The Red Flowers | Jennifer Voigt Kaplan |
| Da Vinci’s Last Supper: The Forgotten Tale | Paul Arrowsmith |
| Damned Reflections | Julian Coleman |
| Dancing with Demons | Nidhie Sharma |
| Dark Country | Monique Snyman |
| Dark Fire: Yesterday’s Tears | David Benson |
| Dart | Dale Renton |
| Deadly Spin | Betty Kuffel |
| Dear Caroline… | Ralph Yourie |
| Death is a Grizzly | Joel Graves |
| Death of a Bounty Hunter | Jay Sherer & Nathan Scheck |
| Deb Dawson Psychic & Spiritualist | Keith McCabe |
| Dewdrops | Dan Flanigan |
| Dickbird and The Specials | Conor Hanney |
| Difficult Lies | Christopher Werkman |
| Dil Bahar | Farah Ahamed |
| Dragon’s Mist | Randy Cruts |
| Dreamshaker and the Curse of Lykis | Blake Smart |
| Drown ‘Em Like Puppies | Maria Wickens |
| Earnest Ink | Alex Hall |
| Earth To Andromeda: Hurtling Toward Calamity | Christie Allen |
| East of the Cookie Tree | Michael J. Vaughn |
| Electric Laughter – Novel | Susan Hahn |
| Elephant in a Safeway Bag | Roderick Stevens |
| Enfant Terrible | Gwydhar Gebien |
| Exciti | Dalia Alnuaimi |
| Far Away Bird | Douglas Burton |
| Felix Grey and the Descendant | Mario Theodorou |
| Fence of Earth | Suzanne McConnell |
| Finding Nine | Susan Langhorst |
| First Do No Harm | Kurt Avard |
| Fool’s Run | Sidney Williams |
| For Dying Out Loud: Adventures in Hollywood, Healthcare, and Forgiveness | Alexandra Free |
| Four Dead Queens | Astrid Scholte |
| Gearteeth | Timothy Black |
| Get Idiota | Nate Granzow |
| Gichi Manidoo | Charles J. Musser |
| Gifted: The Story of a Young Genius | Nishad Gumaste |
| Girl of a Thousand Shadows | Jennifer Coryell |
| Glass Onion | David Yurkovich |
| Gllu Boy and The Seven Abominations | William Waxman |
| Gordath Wood | Patrice Sarath |
| Great Isaac Light | Doug Sherr |
| Greenbrier | Phyllis Wilson |
| Gumbo Justice | Holli Herrle-Castillo |
| Hanna the President’s Daughter | John Denison |
| Hard Cider- a novel | Barbara Stark-Nemon |
| Hard Red Winter | Alan Larson |
| Hattie McCoy and the Soul Wells | Brian Bull |
| Headless | Tristram Lowe |
| Heckler | Jason Graff |
| Helmet Head | John Noreen |
| Hide | Jan-Andrew Henderson |
| Hiding from the Flying Man | William Parolini |
| High Moor | Graeme Reynolds |
| His Name Was Ezra | Craig Moody |
| Ho Ho Ho | Ulvrik “Wolf” Kraft |
| Hockey Camp Hero | John Blair |
| Honor Camp | Unnamed |
| How I Became a Vengeful, Psycho Killer | Laura Becker |
| I Am Ed | Rebecca Akerlund |
| I Never Lie | Jody Sabral |
| I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol | Joanne Rose |
| Illa’s Journey | Maja Simeoni Sruk |
| Images of Broken Light | Michael Di Leo |
| In Memoriam | Steven Lundgren |
| In the Basement | N. Padilla |
| In the Mouth of the Lion | Jeff Guenther |
| In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program | Patrick Hicks |
| In Times of Silence | Chrys Tillman |
| Infinite Vector | Matthew Kohnen |
| Iva: The True Story Of Tokyo Rose | Mike Weedall |
| Ivory Rangers | Joseph Mujwit |
| JAGO | Keith Austin |
| Jesus on the Dashboard | Lisa Murphy Lamb |
| Joe Smith | John FitzGerald |
| Journey to the Giants | Monica Evans |
| July Seventeenth | Kim Ko |
| Juna’s Jar | Jane Bahk |
| Keeping Up With Jones | Cassie Poormokhtar |
| Killfluencers | Denise Deegan |
| Knives | Kelly Ellis |
| L.A. Kills | Jason McAfee |
| Lady Roosevelt’s Moonshine Library | Ryan Byrnes |
| Life is Easy | Sharon Hayes-Martin |
| Lifewalla – Inspired by true events | Nina Joshi Ramsey |
| Lifted | Nathan Moore |
| Lost Girls | Ellen Birkett Morris |
| Love & Homegrown Magic | Patricia Bossano |
| Making Manna | Eric Lotke |
| Marguerite and Family | Linette Arthurton Bruno |
| Maya in the Nimbus Valley, the City of forggoten Spirits | Albina Ramey |
| Maybe There Are Witches | Ben Lohman |
| Merlin of the Magnolias | Gardner Landry |
| Merlin Raj and the Santa Algorithm | P A |
| Metalmorphosis Novel | Andrew McLinden |
| Mexizona (An American Dream) | Alan Larson |
| Mile High Jiggered | Barry Schnell |
| Miracle at Zakynthos | Deno Seder |
| Moonflower | Angela Townsend |
| Ms. Never | Colin Dodds |
| My Big Heart-Shaped Fail | cindy callaghan |
| My Cat is a Dog (MCIAD) | Mohja Rhoads |
| My Favorite Teacher is a Pirate | Annie Palmer |
| My Heart Transplant For Your Amusement | Vince Clews |
| My Life as a Star | Ruth Kaufman |
| My Teenage Dream Ended | Farrah Abraham |
| My whorizontal Life: An Escort’s Tale | Sephe Haven |
| My Wife’s Husband: A Family Thriller | Eugene Davis |
| Near Death | Rich Hosek, Loyd Auerbach & Arnold Rudnick |
| Newman’s Choice | Mark Connelly |
| Neworld Papers | Keith Shaw |
| Night Shot | J. Madison Johnston |
| Nina’s Spiral | Rosanne Limoncelli |
| Novus Arcanum | Michael Maxwell |
| On the Charles | Laurel Kratochvila |
| Once in a Blood Moon | Dorothea Bonneau |
| Original Sins | Bill Mesce, Jr. |
| Ox Bridger | Randy Neale |
| Panorama | Christina Upton |
| Patron Saints of Lost Causes | Vandana Khanna & Blas Falconer |
| Pawn Of The Gods | Andrea Franco Cook |
| Pendulum | Richard T. Lynch |
| Perpetual Motion | Cassy Phoenix |
| Piano Soldier | Josephine Thomas |
| Plain Princess Jane | Jennifer Milne |
| Plastic Phoenix | Kyle McGraw |
| Playing Cupid | Samantha Alban |
| Playing The Changes | George Collins |
| Pretending You’re Mine | Marie Higgins |
| Private Good Luck | Sherwin Gluck |
| Quarantined | Ann Hirsch |
| Quest | Marcia Zina Mager |
| Reckoner | Douglas Rappaport |
| Reclamation | Gregory Beam |
| Redacted | J. Andrew Rutledge |
| Resort | Andrew Daley |
| Rocky Mountain High (Smoke Above Treeline) | steven schlozman |
| Royal Beauty Bright | Ryan Byrnes |
| Ruby’s Revenge | Christine Gallagher |
| Ryder | Jacob Cherney |
| Sacrificed | Robert Bridge |
| Sandman | Tammy Bird |
| Saving Sophie | Debbie Schrack |
| Saving the Light at Chartres | Victor Pollak |
| Scorched Earth: Peacekeeping in Timor during a campaign of death and destruction | Tammy Pemper |
| Seven Versions of the Death of Big Ed Delahanty | Richard Barrington |
| Sharks in the Valley | Travis Kennedy |
| Sheet Music | Debby Mayer |
| Shimmers | Jonathan Strecker |
| Sight Unseen | Susan Mac Nicol |
| Sing Sweet Sparrow | Angela Townsend |
| Sisters of the Moon | Alexandrea Weis |
| Some Awful Cunning | Joe Ricker |
| Son of Death | Shandra Snyder-Beuch |
| Song of the Shaman | Annette Vendryes Leach |
| Splintered State | Justin Kinney |
| Tactical Action Squad – Bushfire Emergency | Tim Mac |
| Tatiana and the Russian Wolves | Stephen Evans Jordan |
| Teaching While Black: A New Voice on Race and Education in New York City | Pamela Lewis |
| Tears and Trombones | Nanci Lee Woody |
| Temple of Eternity | Scott Boyer |
| That’s Probably Really Ironic | Yashaswini Singh |
| The Achilles Factor | Marianne Joyce |
| The Ancestor | Lee Matthew Goldberg |
| The Ancient Chronicles: The Newborn | Richard Delgado |
| The Art of Elodie | Michelle Luke |
| The Big Finish | Brooke Fossey |
| The Big Tilt | Dan Flanigan |
| The Big Wow | Chantal Boccaccio |
| The Bigwigs | Joshua Henaman |
| The Boy Who Never Give (A Refugee’s epic journey to triumph) | Emmanuel Taban |
| The Bridge Across Times | Giuliana Sica |
| The Café on Dream Street | Adriane Brown |
| The Cherry Harvest | Lucy Sanna |
| The Christmas Samaritan | Mary Freeman |
| The Cost of Living | M.L. Pressman |
| The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris, and Failure in the U.S. Military | Tim Bakken |
| The Crossingway | Lynn Elliott |
| The Daffodil Society | T.D. Johnston |
| The Endless Day: Reporting From an Alternate Reality | Teague Wilson |
| The Entity: 2147 | David A Collier |
| The Entity: Climate Change 2647 | David A. Collier |
| The Extraction List Manuscript | Renee Meland |
| The False Men | Mhairead MacLeod |
| The Games | Austin Daniel |
| The Ghost of Cashmere | Quincy A. Mosley |
| The Girl at the Hanging Tree | Mary Gray |
| The Girl Who Strayed | Sofia Ashdown |
| The Greatest Journey | Andhra S. Gomes |
| The Humanist | Kenneth Allen |
| The Invisible Runner | Dennis Haseley |
| The Journey Home | Becky Bird |
| The Judas Apocalypse | Dan McNeil |
| The Khardian Gate | Richard McEwen |
| The King of Con: How a Smooth-Talking Jersey Boy Made and Lost Billions, Baffled the FBI,
Eluded the Mob, and Lived to Tell the Crooked Tale |
Natasha Stoynoff & Thomas Giacomaro |
| The Last Man of Thebes | Michael Colucci |
| The Last Wife | Amy Asbjørnsen |
| The Legend of Bluebeard: A True Tale of Murder, Magnificence and Madness | Valerie Ogden |
| The Lies We Tell | Laura McCluskey |
| The Liquidator | Iain Parke |
| The Long Reach of the Ancient Gods | Beverly A. Jackson |
| The Long Wave | Tom Dreyer |
| The Lost Coast | Scott Lipanovich |
| The Magus World | Gannon G Kenney |
| The Man with Lightning in His EYe | Sid Gateaux |
| The Mood For Trouble | Meredith Spears |
| The Other One | Chrysler Szarlan |
| The Passion Experiment | Rebekah Faubion |
| The Path of the Righteous | Hernando Romero |
| The Prairie Bridesmaid | Daria Salamon |
| The Pros & Cons of Happily Ever After | Rebekah Faubion |
| The Queue | L Michael Hager |
| The Raven’s Conjuring: Dreams of Desolation | Miguel Garcia |
| The Roach | Rhett Bruno |
| The Road to Angeland | Kay Olsen |
| The Ropewalk | John Knauf |
| The Rules of Action | Landon J Napoleon |
| The Salvaged & The Forgotten | Daniel G. Doyle |
| The Schrödinger Man | Strul Fieldgrass |
| The Seven Experiments | Steve Kanicki |
| The Shadow Of Ascension | Robin McConnell |
| The Shells at Night | Robert Sancrainte |
| The Shop on Luna Crescent | Aimée Kwan |
| The Sleepers | Sydney Raeburn-Power |
| The Social Program | Brent Delaney |
| The Society | Ariel Heart |
| The Speaker | Gail Webber |
| The Suirlang Chronicle: Lee | M. J. Solomon |
| The Taming of the Devil Dog – Titan (An Exorcism) | Joshua Stewart |
| The Temple of the Graces | T.D. Johnston |
| The Tiny Giant | Christopher Newcomb |
| The Tree, A Journey to Freedom | Minnette Coleman |
| The Trophy Room | Alison Quigley |
| The Uniform | Gabby Gruen |
| The Venetian and the Rum Runner | L.A. Witt |
| The Weight of It All | Wendy Baldwin |
| The Wild Inside | Christine Carbo |
| There’s Nothing Normal About Us | Art Blount |
| These Rebel Waves | Sara Raasch |
| They gave me the electric chair and i gave it back. | Bobbie Robinson |
| Thicker Than Water | Geoffrey Carter |
| Time Trap: Red Moon science fiction, time travel trilogy book 1 | Micah Caida |
| Titanium | Clare Houston |
| To Live Is To Die | Joanne Rose |
| Triptych | J.M. Frey |
| Tura – A Gambler’s Diary | Marianne R. Klein |
| Twisted | Joanne Carlton |
| Two Good Men: Carmichael Saga | Elisabeth Cannell |
| Two Mutts | Matthew Remakus |
| Unconquered Warrior | Jeanette Nicely |
| Unlashed | Reb Schuster |
| Unloved, a love story | Katy Regnery |
| Unnatural Relations | Casey B Dolan |
| Valkyrie’s Kiss | Michael Alcorn |
| Village Idiots | Michael Angelella |
| Virginia | thayer joyce |
| Waltzing with the Dragons | Juliette Triozon |
| Western Sunset | Karin Bishop |
| When We’re Young | Amanda ReCupido |
| Where The Dirt Road Meets The Blacktop | Rose Wilson |
| Where We Go From Here | Matthew Haynes |
| Whiteout | Christopher Robin Hood |
| Winner! Winner! | Scott Edelen |
| Wizard Island Child of the Orb | Terry Morris |
| Wonderland DownUnder | Corinne MacKenzie |
| You Decide | Robert Wolff |
| You Don’t Have to Die in the End | Anita Daher |
| Zombelina | Atong Alor |
| Zombietown | Matthew Nicholls |
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