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One Year One Night by SL Roman is spreading its wings again.
A new paperback edition has been released in America. It`s called a softcover in the U.S. and is being sold through Egremont Books, an imprint of Red Chair Press, which is based near Boston. RCP first published OYON in 2024 in hardback with illustrations. This new edition is selling for $8.99. In other news, we`ve…
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One Year One Night’s American publisher has won Publisher of the month from the Independent Book Review.
Red Chair Press, which is based outside of Boston in New England, is praised for producing kids’ favourite series. It started in 2009 and has published 300 books. These include One Year One Night by SL Roman which is the penname for Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters. Sarah and Laura’s first Young Adult Novel is described…
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Writers backed by the Queen appear in The Good Life newspaper in Surbiton, SW London.
Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters have been featured in the community newspaper which reaches 20,000 readers. The story was accompanied by a photo of Sarah and Laura which appears on their website slroman.com The paper picked up on Sarah’s tour to the U.S. to promote One Year One Night which was written by the…
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Writers Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters have been on the road talking about their novel One Year One Night to students.
First, they addressed nearly 200 girls at the highly rated Tiffin Girls’ school in Kingston upon Thames in southern England and they also spoke to a young audience of A level Literature and Language students and a handful of GCSE English learners at Strode’s College. Their first Young Adult novel is a story of love,…
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SL Roman goes back to the heart of the story.
Egham is the heart of One Year One Night, the first Young Adult novel by Laura Meloni Bywaters and Sarah Onions. The child at the centre of the story, Ben, was based on an original unlucky boy who was called Ken. Sarah got the original idea when she was teaching at Strode’s further education college…
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SL Roman co-author tours New England.
Sarah Onions, one half of SL Roman, visited 17 bookstores and 2 libraries in a 3 week trip. The purpose was to promote One Year One Night – the first Young Adult historical fiction by Sarah and her writing partner Laura Meloni Bywaters. It has royal approval in the form of a signed letter from…
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The Queen of England has praised the writers of One Year One Night by SL Roman.
Sarah Onions – one half of SL Roman sent a copy of the Young Adult wartime romance to Camilla and she replied with a heartfelt thanks, support for the effort and the intention of reading the book which was published in North America and elsewhere last year. The Queen is a well-known reader herself and…
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Two wartime writers were inspired by an exhibition at London’s iconic St Paul’s cathedral.
SL Roman or – Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters had their first historical Young Adult novel One Year One Night published in N. America last year and are now gathering research for their second creation, set in the same era. Their current work in progress is set in the East End near the Cathedral,…
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The co-authors of One Year One Night by SL Roman are no slouch when it comes to research.
The original boy who was the inspiration for their first YA novel was killed by a stray bomb dropped on the town of Egham in southern England, in November 1940. There’s a plaque in Egham in Surrey confirming the explosion which actually killed 3 children (the elder of whom provided inspiration for the creation of their…
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Talking to young people in schools by the co-author of One Year One Night by SL Roman.
One of the face-to-face ways of engaging with young readers is to go into schools. I’m planning this, with my writing partner to promote our first Young Adult novel which was published in North America – and elsewhere, last year. We’ve also spoken to a young reader group in Egham library, in the town where…
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