Monkey Flip: A Wrestling Superstar's Journey Begins

by Tony Laplume

In 2018 Alex Helton's wrestling name Alex Dane, and he's the biggest star in WPW, but in 2013, he's still just Alex Helton and trying to convince himself that his career in NOVA isn't over before it's really begun. Follow Alex as his career blossoms, he learns hard truths about professional wrestling and life in general. There's more to sports entertainment than just learning the ropes. Sometimes it takes a leap of logic to appreciate what it's all about. Sometimes it takes, well, a monkey flip.

78 pages, Paperback

First published June 7, 2018

About the author

Tony Laplume was born in 1980, spent a few years in Rhode Island, but started making his mark in the world when his family relocated to Maine, where he attended every year of his schooling, including college at the University of Maine in Orono (except for a year at Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA), where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in English. In high school, he created the comic strip "Newsroom" for the Academic Advocate, which published it from 1998-1999. He wrote a regular opinion column for UMaine's Maine Campus from 2002-2003. He co-founded and worked on the Hemlock literary journal from 2003-2004. In 2007, he co-created the short-lived literary journal Dead Letter Quarterly with A.C. Hall and Derek Koch. He also self-published The Cloak of Shrouded Men that year. He has since completed two additional novels, Pale Moonlight and The Whole Bloody Affair.