OLIVER EDITORIAL SERVICES
Besides writing books, I have been hired often to help lay out and edit books.
The KayfabeNews.com website has entertained me and so many others for years, so it was a pleasure to help Colin Hunter publish a collection of some of his favourite pieces. Kayfabe News: Unreal News About an Unreal Sport will have you laughing out loud again and again. Order it at Amazon.ca or Amazon.com
Full Throttle: Passion Comes Standard In Life And Business, written by Farid Ahmad and Perry Lefko, tells the story of Farid’s life, from Pakistan to Canada, with a lot of stops on the way in the automobile industry. It isn’t just a story about cars. It’s about life, grit, second chances – and proving that you don’t have to be born into success or the brightest in class to make it big. Order it at Amazon.ca or Amazon.com
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,
Order at Amazon: Softcover: Amazon.ca * Amazon.com | Kindle: Amazon.ca * Amazon.com
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.
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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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