Posted on 7/28/125 by NECW Wrestling
ew England Championship Wrestling promoter, Sheldon
Goldberg, the author of the critically acclaimed novels, The
Last Fall and After The Bell, has released a new sequel
called The Family Business.
The Family Business follows Rick Pacheco and Great Western
Wrestling as they journey through the post-pandemic
resurgence of professional wrestling, developing new
wrestling stars and dealing with complicated legacies of
wrestling families.
This is Goldberg’s fourth novel. All the books are part of
a series.
“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 the spin-off of After
The Bell, A Mad Dog’s Tale and this new book, The Family
Business..”
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
faithfully portray the business of professional wrestling.
So many fictional pro wrestling vehicles get the wrestling
right, but fall down 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.
The Last Fall, After The Bell, and A Mad Dog’s Tale have all
received great reader and critical acclaim.
All of Sheldon Goldberg’s books are available on Amazon in
paperback and Kindle formats. Personally autographed copies
are available at www.necw.tv/shop.