Sphere lands five more from The Love Hypothesis author Ali Hazelwood

Sphere has signed deals for three new adult romcoms and two new YA novels from The Love Hypothesis (Sphere) author Ali Hazelwood. 

Darcy Nicholson, editorial director, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to the three romcoms, all as yet untitled, from Tawanna Sullivan at Penguin Random House US and rights to the two YA novels—Check & Mate and another, as yet untitled—were acquired from Anna Carmichael at Abner Stein. 

According to Little, Brown, TikTok phenomenon The Love Hypothesis has sold more than 750,000 copies around the world. Through Nielsen BookScan it has sold 184,028 print copies in the UK since last October, while Hazlewood’s Love on the Brain (Sphere) is at 31,551 since coming out in August.

Check & Mate is a YA romcom in which a young woman’s life is jump started when she accidentally defeats the reigning bad boy of chess, inadvertently kicking off a public rivalry – and a match for the heart. All books are tentatively planned for 2023, 2024 and 2025 respectively. 

Hazelwood said: “I’m over the moon about the opportunity to write more adult romance novels, and to venture into young adult novels, too. Readers in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand have been so kind to The Love Hypothesis, and I cannot wait to share more stories with them.”

Nicholson added: “The reader response to Ali Hazelwood’s first two novels, The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain, has undoubtedly been a career highlight and I am over the moon that Sphere will continue to publish her fiction for the years to come.

“Particularly exciting, is the opportunity to take Hazelwood’s writing to new audiences with the upcoming Check & Mate which we know will appeal to a roster of new fans as well as those already subscribed.

“We are poised to secure Hazelwood’s future as the Queen of TikTok romance and we’ll be working closely with the brilliant team at Berkley in our shared goal of building Ali Hazelwood into the global brand she so deserves to be.”

Hazelwood’s adult novels have already been sold to 30 territories and Check & Mate has sold to nearly two dozen.