Bell, Books & Thoughts:

Shaken & Stirred

"During my London years, I spent most Saturday afternoons up and down the King's Road, Chelsea, awash in antiquity. Furniture, art, and especially used bookstores. Imagine my delight at finding this little treasure. 1st Edition, signed by the master! Walked home, head, heart, and wallet all lighter than air...."

Pick up a copy of Ian Fleming's  Thunderball today and get 'shaken" and 'stirred' by the masters' ninth Bond novel.

Author Night:

Easthampton Library

Mark your calendars for August 10th!

Join Ted at the Easthampton (Long Island) Author's Night, the premier literary event of the Hamptons. Tickets go on sale in June but click below to get all the details about the event, to see the other fabulous authors who will be in attendance and more information about this very exciting and worthwhile fundraiser. All proceeds benefit the Easthampton Library.

Spring Forward...

into a good book

Southern Writers Magazine has just published their Spring 2019 catalogue which features a good roster of not-to-miss May reads. Click on the cover or box below to view the catalogue and do not miss page 15...

The Business of Luxury

The Luxury Marketing Council is a platform for growing brands through the power of thought leadership and collaboration. Click below for more information about this leader in the field of global marketing. There are chapters throughout the U.S. and abroad.

The Wyeth Mystique

Here is Jamie Wyeth in Maine a couple of summers ago. Grandson of N.C. and son of Andrew, and every bit as talented an artist as both! He's laughing because Ted just asked him about his wardrobe: Knee britches, knee socks, big, clunky clogs. All he ever wears!

He said, "Take all your old suit trousers, whack off them off at the knees. That's the secret!" Splendid fellow!

And don't miss:"Presenting Wyeth and American Art" two concurrent shows featuring works by Jamie at the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, PA. "Phyllis Mills Wyeth: A Celebration" is up until May 5th and "American Beauty: Highlights from the Richard Scaife Bequest" runs through May 27th.

Click below for more information and to get tickets.

Hurry! You don't want to miss these two Jamie Wyeth shows.

The Chaperone in Red

Ted had a fab time rubbing elbows with Downton Abbey's comely "Countess of Grantham," (Elizabeth McGovern) at the New York premiere of The Chaperone, written by Julian Fellowes, of Downton Abbey fame. The movie is a beautiful story of love and redemption. 

Check out the trailer below.

I Spy . . . a Good Book

Ted spying on the competition's new #5 New York Times Bestseller, Mission Critical. To be honest -- they aren't really competitors, they are pals!

And Ted loves Mark's work!

You will, too.

Keep up with the latest books and must-know literary events from the New York Times Book Review BOOK YOUR CALENDAR.

The Last Word

“I started to write short stories at age 8 in the 3rd Grade. They say: “Write What You Know.” Well, what I knew back then were two things. Cowboys. And Aliens. UFOs were in the skies in the 1950s. And Cowboys were on the air. All my favorite TV shows were about Roy Rogers and The Lone Ranger and The Cisco Kid and Hopalong Cassidy. I wrote stories about cattle drives way out West. Driving the beasts to Montana. Suddenly, UFO’s would swoop down out of the skies and start lifting the cowboys out of their saddles and up inside the spaceships with tractor-beams." 

photo: Victoria de la Maza