Mark Di Ionno is a lifelong journalist who began his career as a sportswriter for the New York Post . Most people know him for his front page columns for The Star Ledger and NJ.com. Di Ionno's second novel is titled Gods of Wood and Stone . It's published by Touchstone. The two main characters created by the New Jersey resident is a blacksmith named Horace Mueller who lives in Cooperstown, New York and a shoe-in hall of fame Boston Red Sox baseball player Joe Grudeck. Gods of Wood and Stone is