Gayle Forman's Blog

I TOLD you good things were coming to the JUST ONE DAY/JUST ONE YEAR FB page. And I did not tell a lie.

As of now, you can read the entire first chapter of JUST ONE DAY. You will be able to keep reading more chapters, the more people who like these pages. We’ll just keep unlocking the chapters and you can keep reading.

Start reading, start liking, now. The Facebook page is here.

Actually, it’s been going on here for a while.

But officially, for those of us who are calendar-challenged, now there is widget assistance. A countdown clock.

Here it is.

Get the Just One Day by Gayle Forman Countdown widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info)Get the Just One Day Countdown widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info)PLUS I’m having a contest!

Put the widget on your blog and then tweet me the link @gayleforman about it with the hashtag #justoneday and I will pick one winner for a signed hard copy edition of Just One Day when it comes out.

So many delightful pro-Obama videos, including this one from Joss Whedon (my hero):

Click here to view the embedded video.

And this one from Lena Dunham (who I’d call my hero except she’s fifteen years younger than me and it feels wrong. She is just awesome).

Click here to view the embedded video.

Both of which reminded me of Sarah Silverman’s hilarious video from the 2008 election. Florida might be out of the picture for Obama, but if you have Jewish grandparents in Ohio (and I used to) by all means, blackmail.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Check out the Facebook page here :

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Just-One-Day-Just-One-Year-by-Gayle-Forman/336133363148700

 

 

Some pictures from Tonya Hurley’s THE BLESSED party!

GIVEAWAY!I will be giving away 5 SIGNED copies of Where She Went or If I Stay (winners’ choice)!To enter either share any post from my Facebook page


or Reblog any of my original Tumblr posts ( not something that I reblogged)

http://gayleforman.tumblr.com/The five winners will be announced next Friday!

I can only mail to US addresses

img via alicemarvels

Cover of Just One Day revealed today!!

Check out the Entertainment Weekly article to read an exclusive excerpt from the book!

http://shelf-life.ew.com/2012/09/26/gayle-forman-cover-reveal-just-one-day-excerpt-exclusive/

“A breathtaking journey toward self discovery and true love, from the author of If I Stay

When sheltered American good girl Allyson first encounters laid-back Dutch actor Willem at an underground performance of Twelfth Night, there’s an undeniable spark. S

o when fate brings them together a second time, Allyson takes an uncharacteristic leap, changes course, and follows Willem to Paris. After just one day together, the spark bursts into a flame … until Allyson wakes up after a whirlwind day shocked to discover that Willem is gone.

A life upended in one day turns into a year of self-discovery as Allyson embarks on a journey to break free from a lifetime of limits in order to find her true passions, and maybe even a true love.

Just One Day is the first in a sweepingly romantic duet of novels. Willem’s story—Just One Year—is coming in Fall 2013!

Gayle Forman is an award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author and journalist whose articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine. She is the author of the New York Timesbestsellers If I Stay and Where She Went, as well as Sisters in Sanity (HarperTeen).”

Books, beer, cupcakes, authors talking, and all for a great cause. Please join me and the super-awesome E. Lockhart, Matt de la Peña and Michael Northrop for a First Book-Brooklyn Fundraiser. 21 and over, because of the beer, and probably the talking….

Check it out and get tickets here: http://www.wordbrooklyn.com/event/first-book-brooklyn-fundraiser !

Come see Kristin Cashore, Melina Marchetta and ME at Books of Wonder this Tuesday (July 17) for an evening of Authors interviewing Authors.

 

How is this author event different from all other author events?

Next week, on Tuesday, July 17th, a day that will live in infamy, I will be doing an author event at Books of Wonder in New York City with Kristin Cashore and Melina Marchetta. This is a Huge Deal for several reasons, the first among them the fact that these are two authors I admire enormously, not simply as young adult authors but as authors of extreme talent, emotional range, creativity and integrity. So I’m very excited to do an event with them.

Also, Melina lives in Australia, so having her is kind of a novelty and Kristin lives in Massachusetts and choses her events sparingly. Both of them are brilliant. I cannot say this enough. Kristin just had this incredibly smart Q&A published in the New York Times, which you can read here. See, she’s so smart! No wonder her books are so good!

But what will make this event different, I think/hope/pray is that the three of us have been itching to get together (not literally itching; we bring no fleas) because though we ostensibly write in very different styles (Kristin is a fantasy gal; I’m a contemporary, and Melina has seemingly defected from the latter to the former) we all seem to have a lot in common, from the themes we cover to the way we approach writing and publishing. To be perfectly honest, what we really want to do is have a conversation with each other, in front of you, and of course, with you. I think it’ll be a pretty rare and honest and provocative and thoughtful and funny glimpse into how authors really operate.

If not, you all can just join me in my fangirly swoon. Because did I mention, it is Melina Marchetta and Kristin Cashore?

 

More information here.

Books of Wonder is located at:

18 West 18th St

New York, NY 10011

(212) 989-3279 / info@Booksofwonder.com