Ted Krever watched the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, went to Woodstock (the good one), and graduated Sarah Lawrence College with a useless degree in creative writing. He spent the next few decades in media journalism, at ABC News on the magazine show Day One with Forrest Sawyer and the Barbara Walters Interviews of a Lifetime series, as General Manager of BNNtv, a documentary production company, creating programs for CNN, A&E, Court TV, CBS, MTV News, Discovery People and CBS/48 Hours, and as VP/Production of a short-lived dotcom, followed swiftly by nine months of unemployment. Ted now writes novels in NY City. He has married for the second time, a triumph of optimism and takes up space in an apartment ruled by two cats. He was once accused of attempting to blow up Ethel Kennedy with a Super-8 projector.
On Staten Island, it’s called The Boat. ‘Does this bus go to The Boat?’ The Verrazano-Narrows was once the world’s longest suspension bridge and is still the start of the New York Marathon but nobody calls it The Bridge. We’ve … Continue reading →
4.0 Out of 5 Stars -Original Spin, 22 Jan 2012 from Amazon.co.uk By R. Hurst “MidNight” (Galway, Ireland) – Greg is a tramatised war veterian who finds himself pulled into a secret battle with only a few powerful individuals on the side of … Continue reading →
4.0 out of 5 stars Keep Track of the Characters, February 17, 2012 By Sarah Smith “Rhubarb” (Los Angeles) Keep track of the characters for this one, because each one is critical to the story; each one is different (and interesting). For instance, you … Continue reading →
Okay – it’s the February doldrums. Time to spice things up! (When you see exclamation marks, you know I’m in sales mode) ‘Mindbenders‘ is FREE today and tomorrow on Amazon as part of the Kindle Direct program. And if you … Continue reading →
Jenny Milchman sent me a typically well-reasoned response to my last post and it spurred a few additional thoughts. Here’s Jenny first: ‘Love your last graf! Well said, Ted, well said. I agree that anything that supports the primacy of … Continue reading →
I spent last weekend at Love Is Murder, a wonderful mystery/thriller/suspense writer’s conference in Chicago. You’ll probably hear more about it from me once I’ve had a good night’s sleep (or two). However, one subject that kept coming up was … Continue reading →
It snowed yesterday. Manhattan was a Stieglitz photo, drifting flakes muting the colors of the old town and rendering them pointillist and impressionistic. I awoke with Smitty, serene and beautiful, asleep next to me, Zeus her cat snoring lightly … Continue reading →
Yesterday was very interesting. The early headlines focused on who WASN’T totally in the protest, like anyone expected Amazon or Facebook (or Google, for that matter) to actually shut down business for the day. But I think those stories actually … Continue reading →
It’s Martin Luther King Day and it would be nice if we saw it as something more than just another Monday off or another sale. There are still plenty of us around who remember when he emerged and the state … Continue reading →
They took the subway car out of Golden’s Deli today. Golden’s wasn’t Katz’s, where Smitty took me a couple of months ago. But it was a real kosher deli on Staten Island, where knishes and pastrami aren’t as automatic as … Continue reading →
