Listed below are the Second Rounders of the 7th Annual Launch Pad Prose Competition. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Top 100 announcement on August 11th here and on Twitter within the next few weeks! 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 Second Rounders:
| Gyre | Robert Sheppe |
| Jesus Rides Shotgun | Sherry Shahan |
| 115 Mohegan | Kelsey Wacker |
| A Borrowed Life | Leah DeCesare |
| A Kind of Wild Justice | Amy Dannenmueller |
| A Sea of Echoes | Misty D. Waters |
| A Shy Girl | Amisha Upadhyaya |
| A Walk Thru Neverland | Dyana Carmella |
| Adult World | Christopher Grimaldi |
| Albuquerque | Rachel Shope |
| All the Idle Weeds That Grow | Brian Koukol |
| All Things Must Pass | Daniel Frank |
| Alter | Thomas Thonson |
| An Abridged and Annotated History of The Santa Claus Corporation | Tim Miller |
| An Accident | Sean Kearney |
| An Excess of Light | Amisha Upadhyaya |
| Anori | Don Gibson |
| Another Spring | Josh Adler |
| Anthem for the Passing Bells | Amanda Norman |
| Ari and the Star Kids | Jared Doles |
| Azaria Emmers and the Carcerain | Maria Hussaini |
| Based on a True Story | Dave Eisenstark |
| Bee Conspiracy | David Boito |
| Beenya Soul | Toni Dianne Holm |
| Benjamin Franklin and the Galaxones : Volume One | RM Wilson |
| Better Left Unsaid | Anne McAneny |
| Beyond the Bridge | Owen Levy |
| Black Rifle | Alex Davidson |
| Blood Reprisal | Karlianna Voncil |
| Bloodlands | Taylor Stein |
| BOHAN THE MAGE | Shayla Durbois |
| Book of the Flock | Rob Benvie |
| Born to Breed | Sarah Layden |
| Born to Run | Anna Forsyth |
| Breakers | Peter Short |
| Bucket’s List | Gary Blackwood |
| Canadian Pastoral | Alastair Luft |
| Clean Slate | Arthur Geis Ph.D. |
| Clutch Start | Keith Michaels |
| Crowns of Capfici | Carol Bass |
| Cults of LA | David Cropper |
| Cut on the Bias | Susanna Bonaretti |
| Dangerous Intersection | Kristy Thomas |
| DARK: And the Boy in the Hole | Matt Batten |
| Darkness of the Ecuadorian Sunset | Stephen Avitabile |
| Dead-end Vagina | Jennifer Steil |
| Deities: The Novel | Stuart Clarke |
| Dethroned | Isobel Giordano |
| Dirty Metal | Allison Geller |
| Dogon & The Three Suns: Book #1 Flickering Flames | Romel Timothy |
| Don’t Look For Her | KC Catalona |
| Don’t Shoot The Piano Player | Kevin Engelking |
| Dragon Untold | Hazel Arevir |
| Dreaming of Ella | Francelia Belton |
| Endpoint: Confluence | J.W. Griffin |
| English-English | Aneil Fatania |
| Epiphany’s Gift | Mallory Oconnor |
| Escalation | Mark Galm |
| EVO | Tristan Barr |
| Fenian’s Trace | Sean Mahoney |
| Fired | Sean Cominelli |
| First Fate | Annette Kendall |
| Fit For Duty Novel | kathy kron |
| Flight 409 | Mark Broucek |
| Flirtologist | Madeline O’Leary |
| Foremother | Lane Blevins |
| Forever | S. R. Bevilacqua |
| Fragments | Jonah Kruvant |
| Fragments of Quinn | Peggi Peacock |
| FRANKENBOT GPT | Nathan Allen |
| Galena | Gregory Golbitz |
| Girls, Crimes, and the Ruling Body | Barry Ziman |
| Going Back | Jude Birdsall |
| Gone To Ground | Morgan Hatch |
| Goode Luck | Charlotte Tressler |
| Guy Fawkes | Dennis Haseley |
| Haunted House Sitters | Charlene Ellen |
| Hell Bent for Heather | Sebastian Bendix |
| Here Be Monsters | J August Williams |
| Hero | Mathieu Cailler |
| Hero of the Day | David Snyder |
| Heroes | Andrew Large |
| High Ground | Richard Lee |
| HOLD ME | Cynthia Riddle |
| Homecoming Dance | Matt Fried |
| Homegirl | Christine Beatty |
| Hooker Avenue | Jode Millman |
| Howell’s Mother is Missing | Lynn Elliott |
| Hunk Town, USA. | Katy McClellan |
| I Promise You Pain | Bart Baker |
| In Dave We Trust | Sam Fasano |
| In My Will | Alejandro Villarreal |
| Inside Our Days | Michele Merens |
| Insight | Byron Armstrong |
| INVISIBLE | Cynthia Riddle |
| Iron Crow | Tamara Kahler |
| It’ll Cost Us Tomorrow | Christopher Narvaez |
| Judas Moon | Joshua Rodgers |
| Jupiter Returns | Camille Liptak |
| Keeper of the Rose (YA) | Eileen Ross |
| La Luna | Sylvester Milne |
| Laurel Canyon Lullaby | Timothy Burgess |
| Letters from Tehran | Kuros Charney |
| LITTLE RUNAWAY | Margaret Newlin Rice |
| Little White Lie | Lydia Strohl |
| Looking For Love In All the Wrong Places. | Ryan Johnston |
| Loss Angeles | Mathieu Cailler |
| Madame Whitney: The Richest Woman in the World | Mary Quillen, John LeBoutillier |
| MAGGIE’S DRAWERS | Staton Rabin |
| Magic String: Jerusalem | Roger Holzberg |
| Mangosteen | Nicha Ratana |
| Manson/Lennon: An Alternative History (1969-2001) | Michael Long |
| Miss Deeds | Robert Bonvento |
| Molly Bloom & Freckles Pee Wars | KAY MERKEL BORUFF |
| Ms. Never | Colin Dodds |
| Neko Reynolds and the Mystery of the Standish Cross | Nicole Quinn |
| No Place Far Enough | Marney McNall |
| Nurture | Jackie Fenn |
| Obsidian | J. Alexander Greenwood |
| October Seven | Steven Stiefel |
| Opening the Bodies | Jennifer Schuberth |
| Overture | Wesley Hopper |
| Ozymandias | Baron Brady |
| Paradies | Seok-Min ‘Kkoki’ Kang |
| Parallax | Philip and Laura Reissman |
| Penelope and The Dream-Movers | Andrea M. Jensen |
| Pharoni | Colin Dodds |
| Pip Asked Why | Thomas Ukinski |
| Pizza Boy | Jordan Dee Crabtree |
| Practical Guide to a Semi-Detached Body | Alex Xavier |
| Puzzling | Claire Leona Apps |
| Quest | Marcia Zina Mager |
| Reach: A Nexus of Life and Love | Jerry Gundersheimer |
| Reincarnation | Melvin Sterne |
| Robin Winter’s Tales–Wiccan Child | J. Treacy Cole |
| Rockwell’s America | Thomas Thonson |
| Rupture | Emily Holleman |
| Sankaku in Seattle | Bobby Burnett Lee |
| Scarlet Ribbons (Annie’s Song) | Julie Ann Slaby |
| Second Infinity | Amisha Upadhyaya |
| Sentient Being Blues | Christopher Rose |
| She Got What She Deserved | John Potter |
| Skin of Tattoos | Christina Hoag |
| So Good They Can’t Ignore You | Owen Levy |
| Some Occurrences in Wickford Village | Erin Lawrence |
| Stage Flight | Alex Reed |
| Stories Which Passed the Time of Tests | Jed Somit |
| Sunshine Unlimited | Dan Brown |
| Superegaux | Christian Wisecarver |
| Talisman of Fire | Will James Limón |
| Tell Me When I’m Dead | Steven Ramirez |
| Tell Me You Love Me | Kathleen Stone |
| Tenderstemmed Hearts | Ru Gupte |
| Terminal Lunch | Shlomo Shyovitz |
| TERROiR | Annie Humphrey |
| The Aberrant Inquisitor | Justin Fox |
| The Alexandria Scrolls – Book One: The Transformation of Brandon Blake | Lukman Clark |
| The Archer’s Thread | Noel Zamot |
| The Astronaut | Eben Maasorp |
| The Bigwigs | Joshua Henaman |
| The Boy Who Fell from the Sky | Tim Gilmer |
| The Branded | Anna Skitahl |
| The Bright Highway | Nick Crawford |
| The Cat in the Creek | Sean McPharlin |
| The Clockwork Hooker and the Mysterious Bearded Girl | Michael Ezell |
| The Coffin Shaped Kites | Sheldon Gleisser |
| The Cost of Sin | Toni Bellon |
| The Crown Prince of Koi | Daniel Abiva Hunt |
| The Dangers of Daydreaming | William Parolini |
| The Dark Rider | Shannon Kelley |
| The Day Sarah Grace Found Religion | Julie Ann Slaby |
| The Difference Maker | Steffi Halow |
| The Dreadful Sunrise Novel | Nicholas Woods |
| The Drohne Talisman | Margaret Hontos |
| The Entropic City | Tyler Hackney |
| The Executioner | Nola Solomon |
| The Final Spectacle | Julie Ann Slaby |
| The Ghost Children | Sophie Trist |
| The Ginger Dragon | Guy Hallifax |
| The Hate Lovers | Staton Rabin |
| The Hebrew Stones | David Dubczak |
| The Hunt for Shooter #5 | ZJ Czupor |
| The Huxian Fox | Nikki Brooke |
| The Implications of American Celebrity Obsession | Alex Arabian |
| The Island | Matthew Coffern |
| The Island of the Cave Bear | Matthew Coffern |
| The Kingdom on the Bayou(BOOK) | Jace Austin |
| The Last Goodbye of Calvin McLint | Dave Clair |
| The Last Will of Lucy Sutton | Terrence Franklin |
| The Legend of the Ancients – Chapter 4 | Joe Sweeney |
| The Little Mystic and the Book of Light | Laura Paulsen |
| The Long Goodbye | Carolyn Bradley |
| The Lost and Found: The Green Light | Alexandra Hayes |
| The Lost and the Coyote | Vincent Paiement Désilets |
| The Lover’s Guide to the Apocalypse | Andrew Forrest |
| The Man In The Tree | Sarah Schembri |
| The Man Project | Steven Townsend Briggs |
| The Manhattan Swindle | Anitha Perinchery |
| The Memory Keeper | Elizabeth Preston |
| The Miraculous Mind of Hazel | Eric Paullin |
| The Obituary | Constance McGovern |
| The Odiferous Destiny of Alexander Sparks | Penny Berman |
| The Offering | J Bryan McGeever |
| The Order of the Brotherhood | P. James Norris |
| The Painting | Sheila Myers |
| The Passion of the Long-Haul Friar | Bill Gusky |
| The Prison Cities (Synop. & Pgs. 1-20) | LaShawn Evans |
| The Quarter Queen | Kayla Hardy |
| The Reckoning | Julie Ann Slaby |
| The Residue of Design | Marvin Wolf |
| The Right Way | Saul Rubin |
| The Shadowlake Project | Ed Vela |
| The Sharks of Market Street | Michael Ezell |
| The Still Room | Larissa Zageris |
| The Thing Itself | Coral Worley |
| The Urging | Christopher Backs |
| The Utterly Unacceptable Atrocity of Isabelle Marsden | Nan Sanders Pokerwinski |
| The Vitruvian Heir, Book I: The Unraveling | L.S. Kilroy |
| The Wine Diet | Gerardo & Dalila Bailey-Garcia |
| The Writer’s Game | Jennifer Prewitt |
| They Became Silent: Book 1 | LaShawn Evans |
| Thicker Than Blood | John Bankston |
| This Is the Work of One Hundred Best Citizens | Julie Ann Slaby |
| Three Drops of Color | Cassandra Myers |
| To Grandmother’s House We Go | Michael Richey |
| To Live In Interesting Times | Robin Payne |
| To The Mean | Kevin Frech |
| Traveler | Alyssa Cami |
| Trinity Rivers Trilogy | K Blanton Brenner |
| Uncontacted Kingdom | William McGhee |
| Undertow | Kemmer Keswani Cope |
| Unfinished | Unnamed |
| Unmade Lives | Vikram Kapur |
| Unthinkable | John David Taylor |
| Village Idiots | Michael Angelella |
| Viva Lost Vegas | Shelly Steig |
| Wake Up | Thomas Thonson |
| Warrior-Born | Shannon Kelley |
| Water is Thicker than Blood – Novel | Jeff Westmont |
| Waterloo | Ben Carter Olcott |
| Welcome to Circus Town | Julie Ann Slaby |
| Welcome to Wingspan | Matt McManus |
| What You Remember Saves You | Brett Schneider |
| Whatever Happened to Emmeline? | Nicole Schubert |
| Where The Air Is | Barbara Ward Thall |
| Whistle Punk | Brian Simmons |
| World War 2 Story (working title) | Sheldon Gleisser |
| Written All Over Me | Duygu Balan |
| XO | Craig Phillips |
| Zigzag Girl (opening) | RUTH KNAFO SETTON |
