Posted on 3/20/125 by NECW Wrestling
NECW promoter, Sheldon Goldberg, the author of the
critically acclaimed novels, The Last Fall and After The
Bell has released a new spin-off - A Mad Dog’s Tale, the
story of Michael “Mad Dog” Morrison, a nice Jewish boy from
Marblehead, Massachusetts, born into a super successful
family. Follow along as Mad Dog navigates his world from
childhood to amateur wrestling, collegiate and Olympic
wrestling, and finally into pro wrestling in Japan and
America. Mad Dog has to walk a tightrope between wrestling
life running a big branch of the family business and
maintaining a happy marriage and family life. It’s a
constant series of battles and a long strange trip.
“I did not expect to be this prolific,” says Goldberg. “The
Last Fall was such a great success that readers demanded
more and I got so comfortable with the characters and the
pro wrestling world I’d created that the sequel, After The
Bell, was a joyful experience, as was this new novel, A Mad
Dog’s Tale.”
Goldberg has crafted each book to be what he calls “business
accurate” meaning the wrestling business you read about in
the pages of each book is pretty faithful to pro wrestling
in real life
.
“The books are fiction,” he says. “But in them, I wanted to
portray the business of pro wrestling faithfully. So many
fictional pro wrestling vehicles get the wrestling right,
but fall when it comes to the business itself.”
The Last Fall follows the story of young wrestler, Rick
Pacheco from stumbling into the pro wrestling business at
the age of 11 in 1971, through the end of his in-ring career
in 1999. After The Bell picks up Rick’s story 17 years
later when he struggles with being a promoter, trainer,
husband, and father. In A Mad Dog’s Tale, Michael “Mad Dog
Morrison rises through amateur wrestling in high school and
college through to the Olympics before being recruited into
pro wrestling in Japan and later America.
All three books can be purchased on Amazon in paperback and
Kindle formats. Autographed copies can be ordered at
www.necw.tv/shop