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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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SL Roman gets down to business in a writing week.
The co-authors SL Roman spent a week penning new words in their second historical romance following the success of One Year One Night. Otherwise known as Sarah Onions and Laura Meloni, the scribes were able to devote six full days to developing the plot featuring urchins surviving in wartorn London in the Blitz in 1940.…
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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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Royalty and a royal approval for British authors SL Roman.
British authors SL Roman have received a royalty for One Year One Night, their first novel. The writers have sold nearly 40 books this year through their American publisher Red Chair Press. SL Roman otherwise known as Laura Meloni and Sarah Onions achieved success stateside in 2023 when they got an advance on International Women’s…
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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…