Career
Forman began her career writing for Seventeen Magazine, with most of her articles focusing on young people and social concerns. Later she became a freelance journalist for publications like Details Magazine, Jane Magazine, Glamour Magazine, The Nation, Elle Magazine, and Cosmopolitan Magazine. In 2007, she published her first young adult novel Sisters in Sanity which she based on an article she had written for Seventeen.
In 2009, Forman released If I Stay, a book about a 17-year-old girl named Mia who has been involved in a tragic car accident.
The novel follows Mia"s experience as she lies in a coma fully aware of what is going on around her and everything her visitors say and do. Feeling the agony of the loss of those closest to her, yet aware of the abounding love of those that remain, she must make the choice to hang on or let go.
The film adaptation of If I Stay, starring Chloë Grace Moretz, was released in the United States on August 22, 2014. The sequel to If I Stay, titled Where She Went, was released in 2011.
In January 2013, Forman released Just One Day.
The novel follows Allyson Healey, who, on the last day of a post-graduation European tour, meets a Dutch vagabond actor named Willem. In an uncharacteristic, spur-of-the moment decision, Allyson goes to Paris with Willem, where they spend a day together before he disappears. The sequel to Just One Day, titled Just One Year, was released in October 2013.
The novel follows the same chronological path as Allyson"s story, but told from the perspective of Willem.
The final installment of Allyson and Willem"s story, titled Just One Night, is a 50-page novella that was released in ebook format on May 29, 2014. In January 2015, Forman released I Was Here, about an 18-year-old girl dealing with the sudden suicide of her best friend.
Movie rights to the book were picked up by New Lincolnshire Cinema one month later. Forman is currently working on her first adult novel, titled Leave Maine and due to be released in 2016.