Flash, was interested in adapting her book into a feature film he would produce and star in.
For Marchant, a recent graduate of the University of Southern California who got her start writing
Harry Potter fanfiction, learning that Amell wanted to adapt something she wrote was a dream come true. Her novel,
Float, a teen romance set in a beach town, had been released chapter by chapter online over the course of seven years far from the traditional process of writing a manuscript and hoping it finds its way into an editor’s hands. She had started it when she was just 15.