It took a while, but I finally got my signed copy of Howdy, Neighbor!: Stan “Plowboy” Frazier and his Appetite for Life.
HOWDY NEIGHBOR!
For almost 20 years, Kurt Nielsen has been one of my best friends. We met through a post on a message board, where I was looking for a roommate for an upcoming Cauliflower Alley Club reunion in Las Vegas. It could have been a disaster, rooming with a stranger, but instead it led to a couple of decades a laughter. For a sample, see the SlamWrestling column I wrote after the passing of our pal, “Colonel DeBeers” Ed Wiskoski: Mat Matters: Me, Kurt and The Colonel (the person who deleted the images already knows what I think of him and his decision).
Through all that time, Kurt had talked about his obsession with Stan Frazier, who most fans know as Uncle Elmer from his WWF run in 1985-86. That had earned Kurt the “Plowboy” nickname before I met him, and it’s appropriate.
So it was an honour to help Kurt get his long-time project,
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GREAT WRITER, GREAT COLLECTION, SAD REASON
In July 2025, A Writer’s Writer: The Works of Jamie Melissa Hemmings was released, just in time for the Celebration of Life of Jamie, in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan. Her death in February 2025 rocked the tight-knit pro wrestling writing community.
OLIVER EDITORIAL SERVICES
Besides writing books, I have been hired often to help lay out and edit books.
Here’s the most recent project that I was involved with, and the story behind it. I met Canadian Country Music Hall of Famer George Fox in April 2024 at the Toronto Sports Card Expo, and he hired me to edit and layout his book, called Trail of the Fox: A Musician’s Memoir. First we did a paperback he could sell on tour, and then came the hardcover, which is finally available for people to buy, as he struck a distribution deal even if it’s self-published. The story behind the book is in my Society for International Hockey Research column … since there’s hockey in the book!
In the acknowledgements, George Fox wrote: “First and foremost, for his tremendous help getting things across the finish line, I would like to thank Greg Oliver. His determination in helping me edit and lay out the book—putting his full expertise (and patience, I’m sure!) towards its completion—is much appreciated.”
To get your copy of Trail of the Fox: A Musician’s Memoir head over to www.georgefox.com
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I have been at this writing thing for a long time. Use the menu at the top of this page to learn about all my work in professional wrestling, writing about hockey, even the two kids books that I self-published!
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