“What I’m interested in is mostly an emotional angle or a unique character,” he explains. The book is also not Freudenthal’s first foray into the YA genre, as his previous works include helming The Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters and episodes of the series The Tick. The director attributes the character’s unique voice and “how he deals with this rollercoaster” as the reason for wanting to bring Walton’s story to life.

Walton’s book is formulated around journal entries written from Adam. “I loved that there was a sort of tender, compassionate, funny tone where Adam gets at some of the really tough issues with self-deprecating humor which really functions as a weapon of sorts against his pain.” Swedish fish and Haribo are superior to all gummies.“We could create a person onscreen that was neither a mad genius nor a violent criminal, who a lot of people could even see themselves in the way I did when I read the book,” he tells THR. She tells her kids that some shows on Netflix are broken because they are so effing annoying she cannot watch them. She’s afraid of hippos and snakes in that order. She will not put any effort into her ensemble unless her hair is also under control. She eats candy (Cadbury please) and the occasional, generous scoop of Nutella (Costco size only) in her pantry while her kids are distracted. If she’s going out to lunch, her go-to meal is a tuna melt on sourdough with sweet potato fries.

She loves avocados, sushi, her mom’s meatloaf, and her grandma’s marinara sauce. Julia talks to herself a lot and cannot pass a reflective surface without checking out her hair. She wrote quite a bit of Words on Bathroom Walls on a notepad near her work phone while she was supposed to be, you know, working…So clearly she was a stellar employee and the company was lucky to have her. Okay but for real, here’s THE HONEST BIO. Julia lives with her husband and children in Huntington Beach, CA. She received an MFA in creative writing from Chapman University and a BA in History from UC Irvine. Her third novel, On the Subject of Unmentionable Things, is set for release on August 23, 2022.

JULIA WALTON is the award-winning author of Words on Bathroom Walls ( now adapted to a major motion picture! ) and Just Our Luck.

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