Blog Tour: Just One Year

Just One Year by Gayle Forman
Published by Dutton Children's on October 10th 2013
Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary/Romance
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The heartrending conclusion—from Willem’s POV—to the romantic duet of novels that began with Allyson’s story in Just One Day

After spending an amazing day and night together in Paris, Just One Year is Willem’s story, picking up where Just One Day ended. His story of their year of quiet longing and near misses is a perfect counterpoint to Allyson’s own as Willem undergoes a transformative journey, questioning his path, finding love, and ultimately, redefining himself.

[hr] Welcome to the Just One Year blog tour! After spending an amazing day and night together in Paris, Just One Year is Willem’s story, picking up where Allyson’s journey in Just One Day ended. In honor of the world-spanning romance, we asked author Gayle Forman to share her memories for 12 different cities, each of which is featured in either Just One Day or Just One Year (or both!). Follow along on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays throughout September as Gayle tells her story in anticipation of the October release of Just One Year!

Mumbai

 

I call it my Lana Turner* moment. I was walking through the streets of Mumbai when some guy went psst to me, which was nothing new. A Westerner abroad, particularly in India, gets lots of pssts. But then he asked me: “Want to be in a Bollywood movie?”

Thus began my brief career as a film extra in a low-budget soap opera and then a big budget Bollywood film, called Humko Tumse Pyaar Hai. I spent two weeks on set, wearing a dress cut down to there and up to here, which was kind of ironic, given the pains I’d gone to to dress modestly in India.

I got the DVD online and found my five seconds of smiling and clapping. So my 15 minutes of fame is 5 seconds, in India. But it turns out, my 5 seconds might lead to something else entirely for Willem, who has his own Bollywood experience. No slutty dress for him, though.

 

* Lana Turner was a 1950s actress, famously discovered at a soda fountain at a drug store.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About Gayle Forman:

Gayle Forman (www.gayleforman.com) is an award-winning, international bestselling author and journalist whose articles have appeared in numerous publications. She is the author of the companion title Just One Day, as well as New York Times bestsellers If I Stay and Where She Went, and Sisters in Sanity (HarperTeen). Follow Gayle on Twitter @gayleforman.

 

Follow the Just One Year blog tour to see all of Gayle’s posts!

 

9/2: I Am A Reader, Not A Writer

9/4: The Compulsive Reader

9/6: Alice Marvels

9/9: Yareads

9/11: The Flyleaf Review

9/13: The Young Folks

9/16: The Story Siren

9/18: Cuddlebuggery

9/20: Books With Bite

9/23: Forever Young Adult

9/25: Once Upon a Twilight

9/27: Me, My Shelf, and I

 

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Happy Reading!