Beverly Gandara

Creator of Timeless Classics - books and screenplays

BOOKS AND SCREENPLAYS

Novels/Books

Soaring in Silence: One Woman's TriumpH Over Fear

Women, Work and Triumph: Interviews With A Diverse Group of Fascinating Women

Concrete Wings: One Man's Fifty-Year Journey to personal freedom

A recently handicapped young married woman, who by her own resourcefulness and the wonders of the Internet, overcomes her struggle against the sexual advances of a dangerous retiree with a buried criminal past.

Five Star Readers' Favorite

Amazon

Concrete Wings: One Man's Fifty-Year Journey to personal freedom

Women, Work and Triumph: Interviews With A Diverse Group of Fascinating Women

Concrete Wings: One Man's Fifty-Year Journey to personal freedom

A naïve teen sent out of Cuba to retrieve smuggled family jewels on the eve of the Bay of Pigs invasion comes of age in New York City at the height of the sexual revolution and earns his political and economic freedom. By a twist of fate, he begins to lose his liberty when his oppressive parents arrive and refuse to assimilate into American Society. Take the journey and discover why success isn’t always measured by what one becomes, but often by what one overcomes.

Five Star Readers' Favorite

Literary Classics Seal of Approval

Speak Up Radio Firebird Book Award

Amazon

Women, Work and Triumph: Interviews With A Diverse Group of Fascinating Women

26 skilled women from 5 countries in 26 careers from A – Z with

1 goal - acceptance and respect

Take the journey and discover;

Why the CREATIVE ARTIST, President and major stockholder of a successful emporium was denied a credit card.

Why the DENTAL ASSISTANT whose work for several years was excellent, was fired after revealing her love for another woman.

Why the top winning JOCKEY, the only woman to have ridden in all three triple crown races rode under her initials to conceal her gender.

How the first, second-career female RABBI struggled for acceptance and respect from her community and peers as a 5000 + year tradition of male only Rabbis ended.

How the two-time Emmy Award-winning WRITER for the original Saturday Night Live Show succeeded despite being told “Chicks just aren’t funny.”

Five Star Readers' Favorite

Speak Up Radio Firebird Book Award

Amazon

soaring in silence is Also available at barnes & Noble

Women, Work and Triumph is Also available at barnes & noble

Women, Work and Triumph: Interviews With A Diverse Group of Fascinating Women

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concrete wings is Also available at barnes & noble

Women, Work and Triumph is Also available at barnes & noble

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Women, Work and Triumph is Also available at barnes & noble

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Screenplays

RENT MONEY

Comedy: While working in the Radio & TV Barter Business, a self-sufficient virgin bookkeeper, aroused by a handsome neighbor, is stymied by society's changing rules as the sexual revolution engulfs Manhattan in 1965.

WINNER OF THE GOLDEN PALM AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY AT THE BEVERLY HILLS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2012

Official Selection Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards 2021

Finalist 2012 Charleston International Film Festival

Finalist 2011 Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition

Semi-Finalist 2011 Scriptoid Feature Challenge

Quarter-Finalist 5th Annual StoryPros International Screenplay Contest

Concrete Wings

Family Drama: A naive teen sent out of Cuba on the eve of the Bay of Pigs Invasion to retrieve smuggled family jewels, comes of age in New York at the height of the sexual revolution and earns his political and economic freedom. By a twist of fate, he begins to lose his freedom when his oppressive parents arrive and refuse to assimilate into American society.

WINNER OF BEST FEATURE SCRIPT IN LATIN/HISPANIC CATEGORY AT THE ACCOLADE GLOBAL FILM COMPEITION 2021

WINNER OF BEST FEATURE SCRIPT AT WORLD FILM CARNIVAL - SINGAPORE 2021

Finalist 2021 EdiPlay International Film Festival (France)

Semi-Finalist 2021 Miami Screenplay Awards

Quarter-Finalist Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards 2021

Quarter-Finalist 2011 Scriptoid Feature Challenge

Quarter-Finalist 2008 2nd Annual StoryPros International Screenplay Contest

CONCRETE WINGS is now a Five Star Readers' Favorite Novel and has also earned 2021 Speak Up Radio Firebird Book Award, 2017 Literary Classic's Seal of Approval with a recommendation for school and home libraries, 2018 Florida Book Festival's Honorable Mention and 2017 New York Book Festival's Honorable Mention.

Unprotected witness Co-written with Jack Knight.

Drama/Thriller: In 1994, a young wife who relocates to AZ from NY for health reasons, is subjected to relentless sexual advances by a dangerous retiree with a hidden criminal past. In a battle for survival, by her own resourcefulness and the wonders of the Internet, she derails an impending attack, positions the bully to meet his destiny and triumphs in secret.

Semi-Finalist 4th Annual StoryPros Awards

Round Two Top 25% 2011 Page Awards

Now a Five Star Readers' Favorite Novel titled Soaring in Silence written by Beverly Gandara.

While I Wait

A drama inspired by a true story: As the AIDS Virus spread in the 1980s, New Yorkers were gripped with fear, anxiety and ignorance. Being an Administrative Assistant to a prominent attorney with AIDS was easy; being his friend, well, that was hard.

2017 received Wildsound Festival's Top 100 screenplays of the Year on the drama festival site and is one of the best scripts to read for 2017

Second Round Top 25% Page Awards 2012

misinformed heart

Drama: A prescription addicted environmentalist on the brink of success and marriage is wrongly accused of murder as she struggles to overcome an incestuous past.

Quarterfinalist 2021 Wiki Screenplay Contest

Turnaround (co-written with john han)

A family drama inspired by a compelling true story: A financier's Asian discipline and love of music, frees his Spanish stepson from the gut-wrenching effects of ADD to become an A student and a world-class musician.

Semi-Finalist 2011 4th Annual StoryPros Award

Round Two (Top 25%) 2011 Page Awards