Description:
Clark's kids are driving him batty and his marriage has hit a rough patch. It's enough to make any man walk into traffic. Fortunately for Clark, he's about to get gobsmacked with perspective when he wakes up to discover he's a penguin!
Brief description: Stu Krieger is a professor of screen and television writing in the University of California, Riverside's Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production. From 2001 to 2020 he also taught Producing the Screenplay at USC's Peter Stark Producing Program.Krieger wrote the animated classic The Land Before Time for producers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, and he co-wrote the Emmy-winning mini-series A Year in the Life. He also wrote or co-wrote ten original movies for the Disney Channel, including Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century and its two sequels, Tru Confessions, Smart House, Phantom of the Megaplex, the Humanitas-nominated Going to the Mat, and Cow Belles. In April 2015, Professor Krieger delivered a well-received TEDx Talk entitled "Choose Joy." His first novel, That One Cigarette, was published in November 2017.
Review Quotes: "Starting with an unlikely comic premise, Stu Krieger has created a memorable, funny, and surprisingly touching family tale."
-Meryl Gordon (Mrs. Astor Regrets and Bunny Mellon)"RAFT is an absolutely hilarious and heartwarming family story with a very clever off-the-wall twist. Stu Krieger's second novel nailed the speech of both parents and two teenagers. Something, as a writer, I know first-hand, is extremely difficult. The graduation and aquarium antics had me in hysterics. I actually fell in love with a penguin! I know you don't know me, but trust me on this ... you're going to love it!!!" -Laura Numeroff (If You Give a Mouse a Cookie)
"Stu Krieger's L.A. is a riotous landscape of family-human and animal-and the myriad ways all these beings try to discern who they are, who they love, and what they're willing to do for happiness."-Susan Straight (National Book Award Finalist, Mecca and In the Country of Women)
"Stu Krieger, a uniquely talented and successful screenwriter, has gifted us all with a magical and surprising, laugh-out-loud novel. It should not be missed. Read it!"-Parker Stevenson
"I enjoyed RAFT immensely; it's very entertaining and illuminates a modern dilemma: man's eternal search for elusive happiness." -Hayley Mills