Hello All,
I'm so excited today as I have had the chance today to get into a topic that I wanted to talk to you all about for some time now. People ask me all the time why or how the creation of my nationwide released series "Marie's World" book one came about. I decided to write an article about it. Well I guess that this would be classed as blog.
I want to take a moment to say that I understand the frustrations of a writer who also wants to do whatever it takes to get into the world of writing wrestling. I, myself applied to WWE and TNA a few times. I was rejected at least by WWE and just ignored by TNA.When I applied to TNA I had some friends in the company pass a good word on for me. Nothing helped. I want to thank them for their help. Same with WWE, I know that there is man there who wants me there but can't help me.
This brings me to a man who touched me recently in a Podcast I was listening too when I was taking a break from writing. I was actually playing Minecraft listening to the #TheBrand on Itunes when I heard Jeff Lane's story. His words moved me to write this and of course write an open message to him through this outlet. I admire his work that he is doing with Vince Russo and #TheBrand. I know what your going to say, oh I have to say that as I write for them.
Well if you hadn't notice I haven't posted any blogs or storylines with them. We are currently trying to think of something I can do so that I can work with one of the men who changed my life. Vince Russo. I also want to thank Vince as I know that not enough people do. But he really did change my life. He allowed me to believe that there was a way I could be apart of the wrestling world by following it through the writing avenue since I couldn't be out in front of the people wrestling.
Okay onto why we are all here.......
At a young age I use to wrestle on my hospital bed with a small boy called Liam. I was raised half my life in a hospital called Aberdeen Royal Sick Children's Infirmary. We use to wrestle and all I wanted to do is that. Not understanding that my arthritis would strip me of that dream. A group of my friends were really into the wrestling scene, to us these people understood what it meant to be in pain all the time. It wasn't the storylines for us or the fancy fights. The strange thing it was the idea they knew what real pain is, what made us watch. We felt less alone.
I lived in a ward that was for children who were fighting immune system diseases or cancer so its hard to understand to think how many of us are no longer here. That was another reason that I started to write the stories that appear in the "Marie's World" series. One of my friends told me I had to write down all the stories so they wouldn't be forgotten.
The first of our group to not make it through the trials of his own condition was Liam who died at a really young age from complications of his condition and it crushed me as well as my friends. We faced death and understood what it meant from as young as 3 years old to battle for ones life. What it meant to lose a friend.
However it wasn't till I was like 5 or 6 that my friend who I have used her stage name. "Kayla" came up with the idea of the form of Street Dance that we were going to go on to learn. Our version wasn't about the routines, it was about the storylines. Telling stories that would entertain the crowds we were going to perform in front.
The source of the dance form came from the 1940s-1950s performance style of dance known as Apache. Its a violent style of dance and that was just to out there. So Kayla wanted to modernize it and what she came up with was using a mixture of wrestling moves in with the dance moves we were learning. We actually called it "Flying" for years as we spent most of our time up in the air.
Wrestling had saved my life a few times as there was a lot of moments in my childhood when I was alone and didn't know what to do. I wanted to give up on life and to stop fighting my condition which was very hard on me. So I would do what I could to adapt wrestling ideas and moves into the form of dance. It was hard on my body and I'm still suffering the side effects of this style of dance to this day. Almost 8 years on from when I retired. I also was used to create the storylines that passed between the characters that preformed in the places we got booked.
I didn't start to write our dance characters coming up against wrestling until I was 16-17 when I had encountered several wrestlers who were shady. I started to understand that I could use the storylines in dance and add wrestlers into it. I tried to publish the series a few times and it wasn't going well I couldn't get the wrestling part just right until I met a group of wrestlers in 2011 who would change my writing career again.
Through Kid Kash and Rhino I had my faith restored in the wrestlers and I found myself having the strength to write more of the stories that were attached to my original idea. Still I was struggling to come up with a great storyline that worked with wrestlers in it. After a email hit my inbox like God had answered my prayers. I stumbled upon a wrestler who was willing to take part in this out of the box idea. That wrestler was no other than Joe E Legend and very soon he became my co-author.
Together we managed to make "Marie's World" well rounded for wrestling fans and of course the dance fans. It wasn't easy and it was hard time to get our ideas to knit together.
I would never have written these books and had some of the top people in the world of entertainment, wrestling and acting if it wasn't for a man who started me writing the books seriously years earlier. "Marie's World" would never existed if Vince Russo hadn't given me hope through an email conversation we shared. It wasn't just our email conversation that had an influence on me.
My dance character had been created between mixtures of Raven who I had watched when he worked at ECW and when I watched Vince Russo on TV. I wanted to be the female version of him and Raven. Those who know Marie (the dance character) believe I did an good job at mixing the pair.
My dance character was called "Marie" taken from my middle names and I was a unhinged character to whom the men often chained or did crazy stunts with. They expected a higher level of performance from me because of the character I had created. So when my artform died. I wanted it to be remembered somehow so I looked at the books Vince Russo was doing. The fact there were nothing like the books that I wanted to put out. That was one of the final pieces that pushed me to do the wrestling romance book series.
I'm one book into the series and despite the hassles that Joe along with me have experienced. I have found that its the readers, Jeff Lane, Vince Russo and the wrestlers who are keeping me going to write the rest of the series. I have almost 5 more books finished and I'm doing what I can to make sure that they a published. I think that those who know me, know how important this series will always be to me.
Especially two friends in Scotland who have been asking about the second book for some time now. I have found myself knowing that taking wrestling and dance, romance piling it into one series. Well its what the wrestling fans want, this interests the dance fans and now romance readers are becoming wrestling fans. I have had some dance fans who have become wrestling fans too. So if I can help wrestling and make it a better industry for everyone then that is what I will do.
I just hope that Marie's World also makes those who are in power in all the industries think twice about some of the things that are going on with their talent. I will say that I know that the WWE or TNA aren't going to be calling me any time soon or ever. That is what makes my series even more special, I know the book has crossed their desks and I know that I have at least tried to give the fans something new.
My books are all about storylines, drama and not about the action. If I leave you with anything I hope it is that I did this for two sets of friends. One group who are no longer with me and for those wrestling friends I have made.
I hope that you will read Marie's World and make up your mind if I and Joe give you the sort of storyline that your missing. Even if you don't like it I hope that I leave you walking with some sort of reaction towards the book.
MARIES WORLD BUY LINK ( US)
MARIES WORLD (UK) LINK
Thank you all for stopping by and I hope that you subscribe or have at least enjoyed the blog..
Kristal McKerrington
I'm so excited today as I have had the chance today to get into a topic that I wanted to talk to you all about for some time now. People ask me all the time why or how the creation of my nationwide released series "Marie's World" book one came about. I decided to write an article about it. Well I guess that this would be classed as blog.I want to take a moment to say that I understand the frustrations of a writer who also wants to do whatever it takes to get into the world of writing wrestling. I, myself applied to WWE and TNA a few times. I was rejected at least by WWE and just ignored by TNA.When I applied to TNA I had some friends in the company pass a good word on for me. Nothing helped. I want to thank them for their help. Same with WWE, I know that there is man there who wants me there but can't help me.
This brings me to a man who touched me recently in a Podcast I was listening too when I was taking a break from writing. I was actually playing Minecraft listening to the #TheBrand on Itunes when I heard Jeff Lane's story. His words moved me to write this and of course write an open message to him through this outlet. I admire his work that he is doing with Vince Russo and #TheBrand. I know what your going to say, oh I have to say that as I write for them.
Well if you hadn't notice I haven't posted any blogs or storylines with them. We are currently trying to think of something I can do so that I can work with one of the men who changed my life. Vince Russo. I also want to thank Vince as I know that not enough people do. But he really did change my life. He allowed me to believe that there was a way I could be apart of the wrestling world by following it through the writing avenue since I couldn't be out in front of the people wrestling.
Okay onto why we are all here.......
At a young age I use to wrestle on my hospital bed with a small boy called Liam. I was raised half my life in a hospital called Aberdeen Royal Sick Children's Infirmary. We use to wrestle and all I wanted to do is that. Not understanding that my arthritis would strip me of that dream. A group of my friends were really into the wrestling scene, to us these people understood what it meant to be in pain all the time. It wasn't the storylines for us or the fancy fights. The strange thing it was the idea they knew what real pain is, what made us watch. We felt less alone.I lived in a ward that was for children who were fighting immune system diseases or cancer so its hard to understand to think how many of us are no longer here. That was another reason that I started to write the stories that appear in the "Marie's World" series. One of my friends told me I had to write down all the stories so they wouldn't be forgotten.
The first of our group to not make it through the trials of his own condition was Liam who died at a really young age from complications of his condition and it crushed me as well as my friends. We faced death and understood what it meant from as young as 3 years old to battle for ones life. What it meant to lose a friend.
However it wasn't till I was like 5 or 6 that my friend who I have used her stage name. "Kayla" came up with the idea of the form of Street Dance that we were going to go on to learn. Our version wasn't about the routines, it was about the storylines. Telling stories that would entertain the crowds we were going to perform in front.
The source of the dance form came from the 1940s-1950s performance style of dance known as Apache. Its a violent style of dance and that was just to out there. So Kayla wanted to modernize it and what she came up with was using a mixture of wrestling moves in with the dance moves we were learning. We actually called it "Flying" for years as we spent most of our time up in the air.
Wrestling had saved my life a few times as there was a lot of moments in my childhood when I was alone and didn't know what to do. I wanted to give up on life and to stop fighting my condition which was very hard on me. So I would do what I could to adapt wrestling ideas and moves into the form of dance. It was hard on my body and I'm still suffering the side effects of this style of dance to this day. Almost 8 years on from when I retired. I also was used to create the storylines that passed between the characters that preformed in the places we got booked.
I didn't start to write our dance characters coming up against wrestling until I was 16-17 when I had encountered several wrestlers who were shady. I started to understand that I could use the storylines in dance and add wrestlers into it. I tried to publish the series a few times and it wasn't going well I couldn't get the wrestling part just right until I met a group of wrestlers in 2011 who would change my writing career again.
Through Kid Kash and Rhino I had my faith restored in the wrestlers and I found myself having the strength to write more of the stories that were attached to my original idea. Still I was struggling to come up with a great storyline that worked with wrestlers in it. After a email hit my inbox like God had answered my prayers. I stumbled upon a wrestler who was willing to take part in this out of the box idea. That wrestler was no other than Joe E Legend and very soon he became my co-author.
Together we managed to make "Marie's World" well rounded for wrestling fans and of course the dance fans. It wasn't easy and it was hard time to get our ideas to knit together.I would never have written these books and had some of the top people in the world of entertainment, wrestling and acting if it wasn't for a man who started me writing the books seriously years earlier. "Marie's World" would never existed if Vince Russo hadn't given me hope through an email conversation we shared. It wasn't just our email conversation that had an influence on me.
My dance character had been created between mixtures of Raven who I had watched when he worked at ECW and when I watched Vince Russo on TV. I wanted to be the female version of him and Raven. Those who know Marie (the dance character) believe I did an good job at mixing the pair.
My dance character was called "Marie" taken from my middle names and I was a unhinged character to whom the men often chained or did crazy stunts with. They expected a higher level of performance from me because of the character I had created. So when my artform died. I wanted it to be remembered somehow so I looked at the books Vince Russo was doing. The fact there were nothing like the books that I wanted to put out. That was one of the final pieces that pushed me to do the wrestling romance book series.
I'm one book into the series and despite the hassles that Joe along with me have experienced. I have found that its the readers, Jeff Lane, Vince Russo and the wrestlers who are keeping me going to write the rest of the series. I have almost 5 more books finished and I'm doing what I can to make sure that they a published. I think that those who know me, know how important this series will always be to me.
Especially two friends in Scotland who have been asking about the second book for some time now. I have found myself knowing that taking wrestling and dance, romance piling it into one series. Well its what the wrestling fans want, this interests the dance fans and now romance readers are becoming wrestling fans. I have had some dance fans who have become wrestling fans too. So if I can help wrestling and make it a better industry for everyone then that is what I will do.
I just hope that Marie's World also makes those who are in power in all the industries think twice about some of the things that are going on with their talent. I will say that I know that the WWE or TNA aren't going to be calling me any time soon or ever. That is what makes my series even more special, I know the book has crossed their desks and I know that I have at least tried to give the fans something new.
My books are all about storylines, drama and not about the action. If I leave you with anything I hope it is that I did this for two sets of friends. One group who are no longer with me and for those wrestling friends I have made.
I hope that you will read Marie's World and make up your mind if I and Joe give you the sort of storyline that your missing. Even if you don't like it I hope that I leave you walking with some sort of reaction towards the book.
MARIES WORLD BUY LINK ( US)
MARIES WORLD (UK) LINK
Thank you all for stopping by and I hope that you subscribe or have at least enjoyed the blog..
Kristal McKerrington
