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Peter Belz has held over 70 jobs across six decades --- fishmonger, janitor, bartender, café owner, salesman, actor, fuel tanker driver, and dozens more. Each one left a mark. Sometimes useful, sometimes painful, always instructive. That accumulation is the work. His memoir, Working Titles: Memoir of an American Hustler, documents the whole ride.

His novella Here Boy! follows a working actor and barista whose senses turn unnaturally sharp after a minor accident, pulling him into the private troubles of strangers and the quiet suffering people learn to hide. Fiction, like his nonfiction, stays close to ordinary lives and the moral weight of paying attention.

His cookbook, Jack of All Flavors, arrives January 2027. Over 70 jobs, many kitchens, a lifetime of cooking. Practical recipes built for people who actually cook. No regrets.

His latest app project is IDLE: Reward Your Rest, a satirical iOS app that rewards users for doing nothing. It came out of a conversation at his neighborhood bar. Fittingly.

He is also the inventor of Sink Hole, a Patent Pending outdoor lawn game built on a single ruthless inversion --- the hole is the enemy. Where Cornhole is checkers, Sink Hole is chess. Available for licensing or acquisition.

He writes a free weekly Substack, Working Titles: The Next Page --- essays, stories, and notes from the ongoing project of a life spent working.

Born in Baltimore. Based in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Still working.