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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How would you feel if you discovered you were the imaginary creation of your best friend?
Read more22:38 RT @IamJackyBlack Take a pic of a friend with their face squished up against glass and assign phone contact. It’ll look like they’re trapped inside your phone 23:37 on a day that started so badly but which ended so…
Continue reading22:34 @Brucey1 I didn’t either. Actually I recognised the Fat Duck from Heston’s Little Chef programme… #masterchef 20:57 is pleased to find the InDesign file that I spent all evening on yesterday isn’t lost but annoyed that it got saved…
Continue reading22:28 On page 112 of 291 of Death Comes to Pemberley, by P.D. James http://bit.ly/AlaqBF 15:59 RT @thebookseller Faber to launch Academy online: Faber is to add to its series of Faber Academy… http://bit.ly/zLec3Y 15:58 @LizUK I pinned something to…
Continue reading20:51 is booking flights… #holidays 15:03 @ianshepherd I only see numbers who’ve bought it not who… 14:59 @ianshepherd Know anyone unbiased who can? #needsomereviews 14:57 @ianshepherd Your brother is a publisher too! 🙂 Wanna review the book? 14:56 is backing…
Continue readingThe holiday is real. Tonight Emma and I booked our holiday to Iceland. We wanted to book this much sooner, and could have done if we were honest, but we both needed new passports and decided to wait until we…
Continue reading11:02 RT @MichaelRosenYes My article about writing for children in New State… http://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/my-article-about-writing-for-children.html?spref=tw 10:10 @Brucey1 Haven’t been to The Mole in ages. Bat’n’Ball in Cudesdon too, or The Mole and Chicken near Long Crendon… 🙂
Continue reading09:04 Key question should be: is the meaning understood not is the #grammar correct. I agree with @MichaelRosenYes entirely http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/02/no-correct-grammar-martin-gwynne?commentpage=1#end-of-comments 12:03 Find out more about my new book, publishing soon… 🙂 http://www.words.shepline.com/books/end-of-all-worlds/ #novel #publishing
Continue reading22:52 @EMTippetts Okay, so I’m exagerating. I’ve yet to become a seller, let alone bestseller #dreams 22:37 Did the BBC weatherman just mention the possibility of snow in the southeast on Monday? #weather 22:34 @EMTippetts A best-selling author can’t be…
Continue readingI’m not sure if anyone noticed (this is probably a good thing!) but bravery won out and I played piccolo tonight at band. Just the one piece, Beauty and the Beast and it wasn’t too beastly. I think I need…
Continue reading23:47 @janerawson“>@janerawson …and its not like we were ever going to get any votes from the eurozone countries thid year! 22:51 is not sure if anyone noticed (probably a good thing!) but bravery won out and I played piccolo tonight!…
Continue reading23:19 the post that gets written only once every four years… http://shepline.livejournal.com/964726.html #leapyear #friends 22:58 @EMTippetts Hehe! Am I bad for testing the whole process out on my Mum’s novel whilst I finish preparing my own for publication? #kindle 22:48…
Continue readingThere’s been a bit of challenge/suggestion going round the internet in the last few weeks that we should all do something different, something away from the norm on Wednesday 29 February, it being a day that only comes once every…
Continue readingSo, I had a away day into London Town today – let out for good behaviour if you will. I was attending the Technology For Marketing & Advertising trade fair at Earl’s Court. It’s a slightly odd fit for me…
Continue readingMon, 13:57: What publishers really mean in their rejection letters… #publishingeuphemisms http://t.co/CFJeqHiy \via @shepline_words Mon, 21:50: : a roundup of the days news: http://t.co/8NN11ScC #news @guardian #today Tue, 07:52: is slightly shocked by the number of presumably intelligent people who…
Continue readingFurther to yesterday’s post, today, on the one day that it would be really useful, there’s not so much to read in the daily paper. Oh well, back to the novel it is then… 🙂 Posted via LiveJournal app…
Continue readingI’ve been reading a daily paper for five months now, and I have to say I like it. There are some days when I do it. You know the ones; the ones where you don’t have time to read much…
Continue readingSun, 20:57: Best line from episode 1 of #UpstairsDownstairs: “You sound like a flatulent mallard.” Sun, 22:19: On page 160 of 291 of Death Comes to Pemberley, by P.D. James http://t.co/oScorCbi Mon, 08:51: RT @EMTippetts Someone Else’s #Fairytale is in…
Continue readingSat, 12:27: Finally! The Saturday @guardian has arrived. That was some oversleep for the ePaperboy! #kindle Sat, 14:45: RT @Grauniad: @shepline Apologies. Tehre was glittch with our Kindle ediiton this morning. Should be fixed now. Enjoy Apple itt Sat, 15:41:…
Continue readingToday has been gorgeous. Beautiful and bright, and sunny. My new-found Saturday routine was hampered a little by the ePaperboy oversleeping and my Saturday Guardian not being delivered to my Kindle in time for breakfast. After breakfast I went to…
Continue readingFri, 12:47: …I created the Underhill Buttons as and ebook and put it up through KDP. Haven’t investigated CreateSpace yet… Fri, 16:26: doesn’t often do #ff‘s but for ebooks and interesting stories @EMTippetts Sat, 10:16: has passport; will travel. Would…
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