Seven notable online influencers in fiction

Charlotte Duckworth is a graduate of the Faber Academy’s acclaimed six-month ‘Writing a Novel’ course. She started her career working as an interiors and lifestyle journalist, writing for a wide range of consumer magazines and websites.

Alongside writing, she now runs her own website design studio.

Duckworth's debut novel, The Rival, was published in September 2018. Her second novel, Unfollow Me, is out now in the US from Crooked Lane Books.

At CrimeReads, Duckworth tagged seven top books featuring vloggers, social media personalities, and their (occasionally obsessive) fans. One title on the list:

Follow Me by Kathleen Barber

Audrey Miller moves to Washington DC to take up a fantastic new job, taking along with her a fanbase amassing to hundreds of thousands of Instagram fans who follow her every move. She’s excited about the future, even if she does have to deal with a creepy neighbor living upstairs, and her only two friends in town are an ex-boyfriend and a sorority sister with a mysterious past. What Audrey doesn’t know however is that her move has brought her frighteningly close to someone who’s obsessively followed her on social media for years… And now there’s no physical distance between them, he’ll stop at nothing to make her his.

A cautionary tale about the dangers of sharing too much online—this is one that will really make you rethink your social media use.

Read about another entry on the list.

The Page 69 Test: Follow Me.

--Marshal Zeringue