Hello! I’m Erin Quinn-Kong, the author of Hate Follow. I’m excited to share a bit more about my debut novel, which is about an influencer who is sued by her teen daughter for invasion of privacy.
H is for Happy, which Whitney Golden, a popular influencer with 1 million followers, thinks her family is, four years after the death of her husband and four kids’ father.
A is for Austin, Texas, where the novel is set.
T is for Teenagers, like Mia, Whitney’s 15-year-old daughter who has had enough of her mother’s social media life. When her mother doesn’t agree to stop posting about her and her siblings, Mia sues her for invasion of privacy.
E is for Everyone has an opinion. People who hate follow Whitney love posting about her on the snark forum hatefollow.com—and things only get worse when they find out about the lawsuit.
F is for Family. What starts as a family spat turns into a monumental case about child privacy, individual agency, and modern parenting that shatters Mia and Whitney’s relationship and wreaks havoc on both their lives.
O is for Online. We’re all online all the time now, and we forget that social media is still pretty new. Many people have not stopped to think about the ramifications of what they are posting for the world to see.
L is for Lawsuit. Mia files the lawsuit against her mother because she can’t figure out any other way to get her to listen to her. (Maybe not the best tactic, but teenagers can be impulsive!)
L is for Love. Whitney and Mia love each other very much, despite their issues.
O is for Objective. This is a dual-point-of-view novel, so readers get insight into Whitney and Mia’s sides evenly.
W is for a Whole of lot of conversations! I hope that’s what Hate Follow starts. I can’t wait for book clubs to read and debate this story.
A Provocative Family Drama with a Sharp Social Media Twist, Perfect for Fall 2024, Dive into the Tensions of Modern Motherhood
This riveting, thought-provoking novel pulls back the curtain on influencer culture to reveal a story of a mother and daughter grappling with what they owe one another as they struggle to navigate life in the glaring public eye.
Influencer Whitney Golden has it all: beautiful, photogenic children; a handsome new boyfriend; a gorgeous house; and designer clothes and beauty products that arrive on her doorstep every day. After spending years building her brand as a widowed mother of four (including twins!) to over a million followers, the thirty-seven-year-old is at the peak of her career.
But it all comes to a screeching halt when Mia, her teenaged daughter, announces she’s tired of the social media life. She wants nothing more to do with her mother’s online brand—and demands that not just she, but her siblings and their deceased father be removed from Whitney’s Instagram, blog, and just about everywhere else on the internet.
When Whitney doesn’t agree, Mia does the unthinkable: She sues her mother. What started as a family spat turns into a monumental case about child privacy, individual agency, and modern parenting that shatters Mia and Whitney’s relationship and wreaks havoc on both their lives. As the case ignites a media firestorm and unrelenting online bashing from a Greek chorus of internet snarkers, Whitney has to decide whether she’s willing to risk everything she’s built to win back her daughter.
Women's Fiction [William Morrow Paperbacks, On Sale: October 8, 2024, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780063379732 / eISBN: 9780063379763]
Erin Quinn-Kong is a longtime magazine editor. Currently managing editor at Texas Highways, she was also editor-in-chief of Austin Monthly and an editor at Allure and Us Weekly. Erin is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two children. Hate Follow is her debut novel.
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