Squared Circle Blues - Guest Post by Matt Posner
I want to thank Debbie Bennett for giving me an opportunity to appear on her blog. I can't believe it was as long ago as 2011 that she appeared on my site to promote her first thriller, Hamelin's Child . She's written so many since then. You can see that old interview here : (BTW, she hasn't aged a day, it appears. Me, on t'other hand…) I'm here today to tell you about Squared Circle Blues , my new novel about professional wrestling in the 1980s. In a word -- why? I'm not a present or former professional wrestler. I'm a writer, I'm a teacher -- I'm not even athletic. But even with its outlaw reputation, and even with the widespread belief that it is fake, professional wrestling, in a way, taught me as much about manhood as any other sport every could. First of all, professional wrestling isn't fake. A better word would be FIXED. The wrestlers know the outcome and work toward it, putting on a show as they go. Yes, they use storyline...