Production on the film began in October 201. It has been adapted into a film by Netflix and stars Elle Fanning, Justice Smith, Keegan-Michael Key, Alexandra Shipp, and Luke Wilson. It won a 2015 Goodreads choice award for Best Young Adult Fiction and was longlisted for the 2015 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. The narrative follows two teenagers, Violet and Finch who are struggling with mental health issues. Niven's first young adult novel, All the Bright Places was released in 2015. The series also includes, Velva Jean Learns to Fly, Becoming Clementine and American Blonde. It won an Emmy Award and the Colin Higgins Award for Screenwriting. The first, Velva Jean Learns to Drive, was based on a short film of the same name that she had made. She began writing a series of historical novels in 2009. In 2010, she published a memoir of her years in high school called The Aqua Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town. Her first two books were non-fiction narratives called The Ice Master (published in 2000) and Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (published in 2003). As well as writing novels, Niven has also worked as a screenwriter, journalist and an associate producer at ABC Television. Jennifer Niven is a New York Times and international best selling American author who is best known for the 2015 young adult book, All the Bright Places.

The Aqua Net Diaries by Jennifer Niven