Tag: The American in London
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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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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 authors to speak at top girls’ school.
Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni Bywaters will talk about theirnovel to nearly 200 girls at a highly rated school in March.Sarah and Laura will be presenting to Key Stage 3 pupils whoare between 11 and 14.The writers will address their young audience about One YearOne Night, their first Young Adult novel.It’s a story of love,…
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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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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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Author of One Year One Night at VE street party in London.
A VE day street party in London was the perfect place to sell our Young Adult novel-One Year One Night by SL Roman. That’s me and my writing partner Laura Meloni Bywaters, working under a pen name.I ran a quiz on street parties at the event in Pathfield road in Streatham.For more of the flavour…
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Wartime street parties to come back next month
May 2025 will see the 80th anniversary of WW2 and it will be marked by street parties in Britain which will evoke life as described in One Year One Night by SL Roman. The Young Adult novel, published in the US and elsewhere last year, is set against the background of teenager Annie who has…
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