Corvus snaps up Rose McGee’s STEM rom-com Talk Data to Me

Corvus has snapped up Rose McGee’s “delightful” STEM rom-com, Talk Data to Me.

Publishing director Sarah Hodgson acquired world all language rights to the author’s début novel in a two-book deal from Gaia Banks at Sheil Land, and Talk Data to Me will be published in paperback original in summer 2025.

“Physicists Dr Erin Monaghan and Dr Ethan Meyer are bitter rivals,” the synopsis says. “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 illustrations are paired for publication, and when they meet online as their alter egos ‘Aaron Forster’ and ‘Bannister’, sparks fly.”

McGee said: “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.”

Hodgson added: “I pretty much inhaled Talk Data to Me in one sitting – it’s a gorgeously emotive and engaging rom-com 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.”