‘Bold Type’ creator Sarah Watson talks about her new YA novel about a female president

When Sarah Watson first thought about writing her debut novel “Most Likely,” she considered setting it in the 1990s and showing one of the characters going on to become the President of the United States in the present day.
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 televisio