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The role of the iconic city Brighton in the creation of One Year One Night by SL Roman.
The seaside town of Brighton on the English Channel was the birthplace of the original unlucky boy whose story was used in the novel One Year One Night. Ken Carter was born in 1929 so when war came to Britain in 1939 he was due to be evacuated out of the coastal firing line to…
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Sending the children away – how the British coped with evacuation – in One Year One Night by SL Roman.
The effect of evacuation often lasted for a lifetime – some children were lucky and the British film director Bryan Forbes later wrote happily of his experience of leaving a working class background in East London and staying with a professor and his wife in picturesque Cornwall in the west ofEngland.But one boy Sarah and…
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Our novel One Year One Night is being distributed to libraries across North America.
One Year One Night by SL Roman has been published by Red Chair Press and has been on sale since August 1. Its distributor in the U.S. and Canada is Lerner Distribution and its ideas can be seen in its blog. http://lernerbooks.blog Red Chair also uses other distributors – often supplying books to readers using…
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Our young adult novel One Year One Night by SL Roman is now on sale in North America and elsewhere.
It’s a story based on a teenager’s diary set in WW2. Our heroine Annie has to care for an evacuated boy in southern England. SL Roman is the pen name for London writers Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters. It’s their first collaboration together and now they are working on a sequel. One Year One…
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One of the writers for award-winning One Year One Night by SL Roman has an Italian background.
Laura Meloni Bywaters was born in Rome. She grew up there when the rest of the world was rediscovering this iconic metropolis with its style, red vespas and coffee bars. Laura went on to attend Rome University where she got a First Class degree. She worked as a teacher and researcher and during a research…
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Victory roll hairdo inspired the artist of the cover of award-winning One Year One Night by SL Roman.
The award-winning novel ‘One Year One Night’ by SL Roman features an eye-catching cover. It was designed by artist David Malcolm who found a Getty image of Annie, the heroine of the young adult novel. The illustration has a sixties feel in the style of pop art luminary Roy Lichtenstein which fits as the story…
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North American reviewers want to know more about British writing pair.
The authors of One Year One Night are getting questions about their writing ahead of publication. Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters write under the pen name SL Roman. The young adult fiction novel will be published in N. America in the early summer. Reviewers wanted to know about the inspiration for their first work…
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Hardcover copy of first novel received by British women writing pair.
Two British writers who’ve been published in N. America have seen the revised version of the hardback cover of One Year One Night for the first time. The Young Adult story by SL Roman is being published by Red Chair Press and will be distributed in libraries in the U. S. and Canada. Sarah Onions…
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Two British writers reach final of of indy authors award.
Two British writers who’ve cracked the American market have got an award on this side of the pond. Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters under the pen name – SL Roman are finalists for One Year One Night in the Wishing Shelf award. It’s a UK based competition supported by independent publishers and the pair’s…
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N. American hardback copy of One Year One Night published this year.
The Young Adult Fiction novel One Year One Night by SL Roman will be available later this year. It’s to be distributed in libraries in the U.S. and Canada. It will be published by Red Chair Press’s imprint One Elm Books and will also gain worldwide exposure to English-speaking countries like South Africa. Meanwhile co-writers…
One Year One Night - SL Roman. 