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Peter Idone

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Huntington, New York, The United States

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Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction

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Russian and some American Sci-fi, surrealism, Symbolist poets

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April 2012

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Born in New York, Mr. Idone has lived in Manhattan, Seattle, and most recently in New England. He has traveled throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Cental America. Having worked in numerous professions over the years with the single motivation of buying time to write it's his intention of doing the same...less work, more writing. ...more

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What books are on your summer reading list this year?

Peter Idone I usually go the library and discover something; so far I've read Paul Auster's Invisible and now I'm reading Gun Machine by Warren Ellis. I don't rea…moreI usually go the library and discover something; so far I've read Paul Auster's Invisible and now I'm reading Gun Machine by Warren Ellis. I don't really make lists before hand, I simply read what strikes me as interesting at the moment. There are a couple of non-fiction works I'd like to read soon mainly America's War by Andrew Bacevich and Jeremy Scahill's Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield. Not light entertainment by any stretch but important as to regards to the sort of world we're living in.(less)

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Peter Idone Long walks, push ups, read a really lousy book which I know I can write better; also I try not to beat myself up too much when writers block occurs. I…moreLong walks, push ups, read a really lousy book which I know I can write better; also I try not to beat myself up too much when writers block occurs. I think it's part of the creative process. I mull over in my head how I want the story to go. This can take days, even weeks and then all the words start to cascade out of me. But really sometimes it can really suck.(less)

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Notes and Queries:

Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc, Volume 25
The following excerpt was discovered in the aforementioned book. The actual date printed in Notes and Queries was March 8, 1862.

Amazon books lists 38 pages of hardcover and paperback editions dating back to 1849. Notes and Queries, for its time, was not as obscure a literary journ Read more of this blog post »

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