T E Shepherd is an author/illustrator. He writes magic realism set in our, or closely-related, worlds. His debut novel, The End Of All Worlds, was released in 2012. His second novel, and the first in the Imaginary Friends trilogy, Mr Tumnal, was published in 2014. The second in the series, The Imaginary Wife, was published in 2018, and he's currently working on the final instalment, Forgotten Friends. He is also a landscape artist, and is currently working on a project with Erica Smith aka. the Bookshop Blogger to illustrate his way round the country to produce The Booklover's Guide to Bookshops. You can find out about upcoming releases by following on Twitter, liking on Facebook, or by joining the mailing list.
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Read moreMon, 19:09: RT @AngellaGraff: Interview with T E Shepherd http://t.co/nVUlv1Qa via @wordpressdotcom Tue, 00:00: Iceland Full Circle Day 5: Reykjavik to Brautaholt – the road trip begins… http://t.co/vgWsKhcF #holidays #iceland #travelogues Tue, 00:49: 86% done with Independent People, by Halld
Continue readingSaturday 18 August 2012 Start: 0km End: 401km Distance travelled: 401 km (240 miles) Having collected the jeep last night we were free to take a more leisurely approach to breakfast and to getting all packed up and ready to…
Continue readingSun, 14:40: Aslan! http://t.co/NAk8DDgX Sun, 14:43: Sunday afternoon cuddles… http://t.co/iC6g9mKz Sun, 20:56: #decipheringthehandwriting petrol rain? “in contrast to the low cloud and p…. rain? Sun, 21:30: Iceland Full Circle Day 4:
Continue readingDay 4: Friday 17 August 2012 Another nice, leisurely breakfast this morning after another good night’s sleep, if a disturbed once at around 4 o’clock by Emma climbing up from under the back of the bed, across the pillow and…
Continue readingSat, 21:30: Iceland Full Circle Day 2: Cousins and Bathing in the Blue Lagoon http://t.co/bYdLrsSL #BlueLagoon #family #holidays #iceland #travelogues Sun, 09:34: Clearly I’m still young at heart… http://t.co/W4lB7uTe The 18-34 age group is the only one in which there…
Continue readingDay 4: Thursday 16 August Plans change. Given second thoughts Janet had decided her Peugeot 206 might be a little small for four people and two dogs so we belayed the trip to the golden circle. Instead, after a leisurely…
Continue readingFri, 14:29: Could you be the lucky 100th reader to download #TheEndOfAllWorlds and win a special prize? https://t.co/CS56RoB9 #ya #kindle #competition Fri, 14:52: Book Review: Designing Woman – Elaine Raco Chase http://t.co/oAK4BggC via @elenchera Fri, 15:15: 11/13 Slow Pitch/Query Event…
Continue readingDay 2: Wednesday 15 August We were not up late, considering the hour that we went to bed, but we had a leisurely breakfast with our cereal laden with fresh fruit and various mjölks. Washing this morning I find it…
Continue readingFollowing the launch of The End Of All Worlds in May this year Kevin Domenic of the Searching for Heroes book website was kind enough to interview me about my story, and, umm… me. That was back in June, and…
Continue readingFri, 08:34: #noticed The girl on the street stomping off through the leaves; mum shouts; the girl turns; a face like thunder. Like mum like child. Fri, 09:30: Just posted a photo http://t.co/TiPZbUrI
Continue readingWed, 15:16: RT @AngellaGraff: The End of All Worlds, By T E Shepherd http://t.co/6XREpdQT via @wordpressdotcom Wed, 15:51: 2001-inspired monolith block… http://t.co/gSOJLNu7 Wed, 16:16: Do you ever re-read books? Arthur Ransome’s Swallows & Amazons: comfort re-read. Diana Wynne Jones’ Fire…
Continue readingDay 1: Tuesday 24 August It may be my fourth visit to Iceland but I have never before arrived in the hours of darkness. To keep to our budget we couldn’t afford the normal mid-morning flight that I’ve always had,…
Continue readingTue, 15:08: Review of #TheEndOfAllWorlds where the “writing is sharp and well thought out, there is passion” Thanks @AngellaGraff! http://t.co/9bK35lzX Tue, 23:09: The Indie Experiment #11: Considering the sales figures… http://t.co/dOk9vacc #amwriting #TheEndOfAllWorlds #ebooks #kindle Wed, 00:07: On page 24…
Continue readingThe End Of All Worlds has now been published for almost seven months – time I think to say something about how well its been selling. I’m really not sure how many I expected to sell (and how quickly) when…
Continue readingMon, 13:18: #TheEndOfAllWorlds is still in Top 100 #myths & #fairytales. Fairly certain its now selling to folk who don’t know me http://t.co/S4UkeJy1 Mon, 15:54: #eBooks? Love ’em or hate ’em… http://t.co/caqKoAyk Mon, 18:27: Considering the temperature at which a…
Continue readingOkay, I admit it (and I’m probably going to damn myself to obliteration by saying it) but I’m beginning to get cautiously optimistic that The End Of All Worlds is starting to move forward on its own in sales. It’s…
Continue readingThis weekend we returned to Suffolk for a couple of days back in the county of my childhood. My mum and dad had taken a cottage at Iken Barns so that they could enjoy some of the music at the…
Continue readingOverheard in an independent bookshop: Customer: Do you have Ray Bradbury’s Farenheit 451 Bookseller: Of course. Isn’t that the temperature at which Kindles burn? Not actually an exchange that I overheard, or exactly a true transcript of the conversation, but…
Continue readingSun, 16:39: has seen my very first #Kingfisher! Very exciting! It sat and perched and darted off to catch a fish… 🙂 Sun, 17:12: 5 of 5 stars to The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson http://t.co/jVABkpQh Mon,…
Continue readingIt’s a weird thing, but of late we seem to be finding ourselves with longer evenings. That is to say, we get to a point where everything is done, and meals are eaten and thus, I think that its later…
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