Tag: Egham Literary Festival 23
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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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The American connection for European authors SL Roman.
The other writer in the awarding winning creators of One Year One Night by SL Roman has an American connection. Sarah Onions lived in Manhattan as a child. And that experience influenced her as she also went to school in the city and read books for American kids. Her favourite writer was Laura Ingalls Wilder…
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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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One Year One Night on screen in North America.
A short film has been made to promote One Year One Night by SL Roman in North America. It shows some of the main characters in the award-winning young adult novel set in WW2. The story is the creation of British writers Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters. The film can be seen here: It…
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An international writing competition led to British pair’s award winning novel.
The story set in wartime Britain was entered for the Page Turner writing awards and that gained wider attention including worldwide digital sales. One Year One Night – the new young adult novel by SL Roman is being distributed to libraries in Canada and the U.S. this summer. Here, Sarah Onions talks about how she…
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‘Marvellous review’ from U.S. website.
A British award-winning writing pair have got another great review for One Year One Night by SL Roman. The American Reedsy.com runs the Discovery books website with the tagline ‘recommendations from real people not robots’. The people behind this young adult novel are Laura Meloni Bywaters and Sarah Onions who met at the school gate…
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Award-winning novelists get more recognition in U.S.
Award-winning pair Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters have got more recognition for their novel One Year One Night to be published soon in North America. The British writing duo – working under the pen name SL Roman have won a gold award with the U.S. website Literary Titan which has more than 60 thousand…
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Top notch characters by British writing pair.
One of America’s leading review panels has described One Year One Night by SL Roman as having ‘top-notch characterisation’. The Literary Titan has more than sixty thousand followers and has praised the first work by the British writing pair, ‘Despite the book’s discussion of serious themes, it is an easy and entertaining read with a…
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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…
