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Ask the Author: Peter Weissman

“I read books in bunches, when I find an author I like. So I can't think of one book I'll be reading a month or two, from now, not until I stumble across my next great find.” Peter Weissman

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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?
Peter Weissman I'd place myself in Paris in the twenties--when I was in my thirties--with a coffee and brioche in the Cafe Flore on St. Germain de Pres.
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How do you deal with writer’s block?
Peter Weissman Just ignore it and write. And in a pinch, put aside big projects for smaller ones; novels for short stories--or a short story--for instance.
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What’s the best thing about being a writer?
Peter Weissman It is said that mental activity can help stave off Alzheimer's, so that's something.
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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?
Peter Weissman If you can help yourself, do something else.
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What are you currently working on?
Peter Weissman While waiting for Getting Real to appear in print, and periodically working on the format issues and, soon, the cover, I'm imposing silence on myself. Perhaps creating a fallow period out of which the next inkling of a book might take root. Though it could be I won't write again, except in this abbreviated form, and become a somewhat different person.
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How do you get inspired to write?
Peter Weissman It's not exactly inspiration so much as obsession. I seem to have an obsession to explain myself to myself, but as a writer, to the personal audience I envision.
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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?
Peter Weissman It begins where the last book left off.
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