Allie Rowbottom Will Have Her Feminism With A Side of Botox

As Allie Rowbottom was editing hernew novel,Aesthetica, her publisher issued a strange request.

Their legal team was insisting that she create a fake Instagram.

Turns out she was a young girl in England trying to make it big on Instagram.

So we changed the spelling from Wray to Wrey, and I got the handle.

Rowbottoms Anna Wrey is desperate to succeed on the platform.

The book takes place in 2017, the height of Facetune andInstagram faces popularity.

They would read up until the point that Anna gets her first surgery and they would love it.

Then they would be like, This isn’t for me.

So with the Botox, it just felt like, why not?

Since [playing the part] didnt work, maybe Ill just go bananas.

I really loveThe90-Day Novel.

I also started reading this book calledSelf-Editing for Fiction Writersand its been really helpful.

This interview was edited and condensed for clarity.

This article was originally published onDec.