Today at Red Room, my friend Ben Fong-Torres blogs about what it’s like to appear as himself in works of fiction. Most recently, he has appeared in Steer Toward Rock, by Fae Myenne Ng (forthcoming), In the Key of Death, by Bob Levinson, and No One You Know, by yours truly (forthcoming). In the latter, he makes more than a cameo, and actually turns out to have a pretty major influence on the storyline. Read the post, A Real Character, here.

And of course, you don’t have to read a book to find Ben Fong-Torres personified. Just Netflix Almost Famous, in which he is portrayed by Terry Chen.