Tag: Red Chair Press
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The sweet spot of our second wartime historical romance.
The sweet spot of our second wartime historical romance. Co-authors SL Roman spent a week on a recent writer’sretreat and wrote 20 several new pages and included newcharacters in the work-in-progress novel.And they made use of one storyline which has beenthreatening to get lost – more than a year after they firstcame up with it.The…
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One Year One Night by SL Roman gets 13 k viewers in first reading on Tiktok.
American actor Alex Ryan Brown read excerpts from the historical romance written by Laura and Sarah under the pen-name SL Roman. Tiktok users heard Alex introduce the characters of Annie, unlucky boy Ben, jobsworth Mr Cribbles and Harriet Mandeville. The readings concentrated on the point in the story where the evacuees including Ben arrive at…
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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 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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Our royally-supported novel now gets an airing on Spotify.
Fans of listening to stories can now hear our first Young Adult Novel on the digital audio podcast. One Year One Night by SL Roman was published in North America last year as an audio book, as well as in hardback form and a version for dyslexic readers. It’s the story of an unlucky boy…
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How Londoners coped with bombing in WW2 – research for the next YA novel by SL Roman.
Lots of the research for our second young adult novel deals with the violence and horror of war. But we spotted one display in London which was a bit different. Many organisations put on displays this summer of what they did in WW2, inspired by Victory in Europe day or VE day when the 80th…
