FULL BLAST WRESTLING

Tim Clayton was born in Northampton, England and studied Creative Writing in Bath. He lives in Poland and is a copywriter, teacher, writer and fan of bicycles and professional wrestling. His first novel, 'The Spokesman', is available online here.

He is married with three children.

 

 

A note from the author

 

This book is about the world of professional wrestling where, as any fan knows, everything is possible and most storylines have already happened. After decades of various promotions working continually to create angles, there is little left that a writer can create. When writing this book, I sat down and started my task with one thing in mind: not to plagiarise anyone or get sued by anyone in the business for using their character or storyline. That is no easy thing to do when every character imaginable has appeared somewhere in some era and every possible storyline has already happened a bunch of times.

 

I am sure that people from within the industry will read it and think that a certain fictional character resembles a real-life person. With so many people working so many angles, that is unavoidable. However, I wish to reaffirm that any likeness in name, character, style, appearance or storyline is purely coincidental. After writing the book I checked on some of the names and was not surprised to find out that there were wrestlers named Starr and Skinner. I have kept the names as I originally wrote them as I am happy in my own conscience that there was no intention to use someone's likeness. And, in all honesty, no matter what name I thought of, someone in the past would have used it.

 

If my main task was not to end up in court, my second was to write a good book. I do hope that it was enjoyable. It would give me the most pleasure if people who give themselves to the wrestling industry felt in some small way that the book was good and, above all, that it painted them in a positive light. I have nothing but respect. It would kill me to find out that any of my heroes were disappointed by the book or felt it was not representative. The drink, drugs and scams are just examples of human beings living to excess; they are not intended to suggest that the industry is like that, only that all human beings are not infallible. The book is not an expose as I have never been in a ring. I wanted FBW to be a celebration of the ingenuity and fun that is wrestling, as well as a testament to the incredible amount of work people pour into putting on the shows.

 

Thanks,

TC