

Endangered was turned into a movie short in 2018 directed by Nancy Buirski.Įliot Schrefer is the creator and the author of the fictional series Ape Quartet. He has a deep professed love for marshmallows as well as fiction from the early 20th century, as well as a love of apes. He says that his book about a girl and an orphaned bonobo trying to survive in a warring country (Endangered) was far outside his interior space of life that he discovered that it was much more easy to be able to write in a convincing manner.

He says that when his protagonists are essentially different versions of himself, they are unknowable and amorphous and he’s too deep in the story to be able to figure out which details a reader needs to understand. The second one is called The New Kid and it is for adults as well.Įliot says that the two things that have come recently in his career have been an increased sense of confidence in his ability to craft a plot and the realization that he is able to write better stories when he puts characters down on the page that are not based on himself. The first was titled Glamorous Disasters.

Schrefer first became a published author with the release of his books for adults. He has written books for adults and for young adults too, the result of a lunch with David Levithan.
