A short interview with writer, editor and scholar Aaron Winslow about the circumstances and ideas that led to my chapbook, Drama Queens, following its publication by the LA-based Make Now Press in autumn 2020.
From the interview:
"I was compiling some references to my work as part of an exercise to justify my day job, as an academic, and found 'Nick Thurston' recurring on Google Books within a series of what appeared to be fanfiction books. The Amazon Look Inside tool took me straight to every mention of the name within those books and I started to collect copies. The series is called 'Hollywood to Olympus' and they’re self-published commercial romance novels. I was smitten with this idea that the actor Nick Thurston was now playing himself as a bit-part character in a genre story. Or rather, I was interested in my feeling that he and I might be playing each other and ourselves simultaneously, in my imagination at least."
