Steminist Rom-Com Talk Data To Me to be published by Corvus

15th April 2024

Sarah Hodgson, Publishing Director of Corvus, has acquired World All Languages in Rose McGee’s Talk Data to Me as part of a two-book deal from Gaia Banks at Sheil Land. Talk Data to Me will be published in PBO in summer 2025.

Rose McGee holds a degree in English from Stanford University and lives in the Bay Area of California. Talk Data to Me is her debut novel.

The Love Hypothesis meets The Hating Game, with a sprinkling of You’ve Got Mail, in this sweet and sexy STEMinist romcom.

Physicists Dr Erin Monaghan and Dr Ethan Meyer are bitter rivals. They are each at the forefront of their opposing fields and competing for everything: grant money, lab time, government backing. But fate has lined up a meet-cute on the pages of sci-fi magazine Galactica. Erin’s short story and Ethan’s illustration are paired for publication, and when they meet online as their alter egos ‘Aaron Forster’ and ‘Bannister’, sparks fly.

Will the course of true love for once run smooth when Erin and Ethan are forced to collaborate on a government contract? Or will their rivalry prevent them from realizing the truth about their feelings in the material as well as the virtual world?

Rose McGee says, ‘I’m delighted that Talk Data to Me has found a home at Corvus Books under Sarah Hodgson’s clever hand. I’m excited to share my love for science, ice cream, and steamy workplace rivalries—plus a bit of patriarchy-smashing and one very good golden retriever—with readers soon.’

Gaia Banks says,

‘I’m thrilled that Rose’s delightful romcom has found such a wonderful home at Corvus and the ideal editor in Sarah Hodgson, who has been a champion from day one.’

Sarah Hodgson says,

‘I pretty much inhaled Talk Data to Me in one sitting – it’s a gorgeously emotive and engaging romcom featuring several of my favourite tropes: enemies to lovers; forced proximity; workplace romance. I feel incredibly lucky that Rose has entrusted Corvus with introducing readers to Erin and Ethan, and I know romance lovers everywhere will fall in love with them as I have.’