Their situation, though, doesn t mean the dates have to end while Lee is in Seoul. Picking up where they left off, Lee and Laura continue with their relationship long distance, diving deeper into their personal lives and turning up the heat Until Laura s past and Lee s family throw them even farther apart. Will their differences stop the relationship before they see each other again?
Told from both Lee and Laura s point of view, FACE TIME is a funny, romantic, modern-day story about two people who connect across the world.
FACE TIME is a full-length stand-alone novel. This novel contains adult sexual situations, profanity, and one scene of mild drug use.
New version contains epilogue! (06/30/2015)
Q&A With The Author, S. J. Pajonas
What gave you the inspiration to write this book?I have a friend who is in the military, as is her husband. When her husband went on deployment in the Middle East, they kept in touch via FaceTime. She would often post screenshots of their chats to Twitter and Facebook, and it was great to see the two of them continuing their daily relationship over an internet connection. I thought, What would it be like to FaceTime date someone? To have a long-distance relationship online? I know tons of people do this, but I wanted to explore a brand-new relationship, one that starts in person but then continues long-distance.
Who is your favorite character in the book?
I think Lee is my favorite character. He s a good guy, smart, doing well for himself, who s had bad luck meeting women because he s always on the road. He has trouble making decisions and so was saddled with a really awful girlfriend for a few years. But he meets Laura, and he blossoms. He takes some chances. He becomes a whole person. I love watching his transformation.
Which came first, the title or the novel?
The novel idea. Originally, I was going to use Skype as my method of chatting, and then I wondered what phones or technology would be available overseas, and I got frustrated because getting those technology details right is important to me. I hate when they re glossed over in novels. So I made them both have iPhones and then Face Time just made sense. As one word, FaceTime is an app that a lot of people are familiar with, and it comes from the phrase face time which is conversing with other people face-to-face. It stuck immediately.
Family is a topic that s important in both your Nogiku series and in Face Time, can you explain why family is an important topic in your books?
Family is very important to me as an individual. I set out to write about families in all of my books (and this family extends to best friends as well) and I try to experiment with as many kinds of family units as I can. Traditional and nontraditional. Multicultural and mixed versus homogenous. Straight, gay, and bi. Broadening the scope of family naturally brings drama to just about any relationship. Because when I boil it down, I m writing about personalities and how they intermix, and I find that fascinating.
Who do you think would be most interested in Face Time?
Those that want a slight untraditional romance, people who are looking for something modern, real, and contemporary, and those that are interested in world at large, especially Korea and India. If they have any experience with a long-distance relationship, the themes of this novel will really resonate with them!