HQ bags 'brilliantly entertaining' romcom from Money-Coutts in two-book deal

HQ has bagged two new books from Sophia Money-Coutts. 

Katie Seaman, senior commissioning editor, acquired world all language rights from Rebecca Ritchie at A M Heath. The first book in the deal, Looking Out For Love, will publish in January 2023. 

Looking Out For Love follows 32-year-old Stella Shakespeare who wants to find "all-consuming, can’t-think-about-anything-else, can’t-even-manage-to-eat kind of love". What she found beside her bed when she woke up that morning wasn’t love. But when the man of her dreams walks into her life Stella thinks she’s found The One. Although she soon starts to question if she’s been looking for love in the right places all along… 

Money-Coutts said: “I couldn’t be more delighted to have signed another deal with HQ – the most supportive, ingenious, brilliant and enthusiastic bunch in the business. Eight-year-old Sophia, who wrote stories about princes and castles, would be particularly chuffed to know that she was going to grow up and be allowed to write stories about princes and castles for a living. We’re both beyond grateful.” 

Ritchie added: “I’m so excited HQ will be publishing two new hilarious novels by the indomitable Sophia Money-Coutts, starting out with the brilliantly entertaining Looking Out For Love in 2023. With each new book, Sophia’s storytelling gets more ambitious (and, dare I say it, more amusing) and HQ always thinks of so many new, exciting and imaginative ways to reach new readers.” 

Seaman also commented: “I’m delighted that ahead of our Summer of Sophia, celebrating the paperback publication of Did You Miss Me?, readers won’t have to wait long for two brilliant new books from Sophia. Looking Out For Love promises to be a fresh and modern take on friendship and dating that readers will relate to and we have ambitious plans at HQ to build Sophia to even greater heights.”