‘Bold Type’ creator Sarah Watson reveals how Parkland students inspired her new YA novel about a female president

That all changed after the Parkland shooting. “I watched these students rise up in unbelievable ways and use their voices in unbelievable ways,” the Santa Monica-based author says by phone from Atlanta where she’s currently working on a television pilot for Fox. “I started thinking, Gen Z, this is the generation that’s going to save us.