{"id":17205,"date":"2025-07-23T05:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/17205\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T05:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:42:11","slug":"text-acquires-tolichs-debut-romcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/17205\/","title":{"rendered":"Text acquires Tolich\u2019s debut romcom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tWednesday, 23 July 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/booksandpublishing\/\" class=\"entry-social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> @booksandpublishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Text Publishing has acquired world rights to debut romcom Side Character Energy by Olivia Tolich, in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary.<\/p>\n<p>Side Character Energy follows character Gertrude, whose best friend, Bee, has finally found her Mr Right in \u2018attractive, mature\u2019 William, \u2018after a series of Mr Wrongs\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Gertrude is Bee\u2019s best friend since forever (and also her flatmate, workmate and Insta content videographer). She\u2019s happy for Bee \u2013 just as she\u2019s been sad for Bee during those romantic missteps, and supportive of Bee in everything else,\u2019 said the publisher. \u2018Gertrude isn\u2019t sure there even is a Gertrude that isn\u2019t determined by what Bee wants or thinks or feels.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>After realising she\u2019s not the main character in her own life, Gertrude turns to William\u2019s best friend, Arthur, to find out whether there\u2019s more to Gertrude than she thinks.<\/p>\n<p>Tolich is a Melbourne-based author who works as an educational publisher.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing the acquisition, Tolich said, \u2018This book is for everyone who watches a romcom and thinks the best friend should get their own movie.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Text editor Mandy Brett said, \u2018A lot of craft goes into creating effortless fun. Olivia Tolich is a master of her craft.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Side Character Energy is scheduled for release in February 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Carlen Gedye.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"catlist\">Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=local-news\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local\u00a0news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=rights-news\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rights\u00a0and\u00a0acquisitions<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 23 July 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Text Publishing has acquired world rights to debut romcom Side Character&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1296,428,7579,7582,7575,7578,457,7581,5494,96,7577,620,7580,7576,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-17205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-asia-pacific","tag-australia","tag-author-interviews","tag-book-awards","tag-book-news","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-bookseller-jobs","tag-ebooks","tag-entertainment","tag-library-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-publishing-jobs","tag-publishing-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}