Rayne Fisher-Quann is Leading Gen Z into the Lit World. Will They Follow?
Meet the 23-year-old Internet Princess with a massive book deal
Photography by Albert Hoang
A message from the author, Ariella Garmaise:
I first met
at a reading in Toronto, when she was back in town from New York to visit her parents. When we exchanged numbers, she spelled out her last name for me, and I couldn’t help but point out that I already knew it.As a twenty-something woman online, it’s hard for me to escape Rayne Fisher-Quann. After parlaying a massive TikTok following and fledgling freelance career into her juggernaut Substack “internet princess,” which now has over 100,000 subscribers, Rayne landed an unfathomably lucrative book deal.
In June, The Walrus sent me to New York to spend time with the twenty-three-year-old it girl the publishing industry is hinging its hopes on. What resulted was my first profile for The Walrus—where I cover Rayne’s first book, how Gen Z writers like Rayne are changing the publishing landscape, and what it’s really like to be a young woman in the spotlight.
Rayne has it all: adoring fans, immense talent, striking beauty, a kind of monetary success that feels impossible to come by. Now comes the hard part: she has to deliver.
Read about Rayne here.
Best wishes to Rayne Fisher-Quann. For your next assignment, could you please write about the current season of writers and books supported by Canada’s Indy publishers, who are surviving on next to nothing and deserve the Walrus’s spotlight?