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 more1. How has marriage changed you? I’m not sure that marriage has changed me. Meeting Emma definitely has. I am so much more confident about myself than I used to be and can convey myself and my thoughts with way…
Continue readingThu, 20:16: still can’t believe someone can segue Jaws into Love Story. Must practice at not giggling hysterically… #flute #band
Continue readingIt’s not quite the woodcut-inspired creation that I had in mind but I’m actually happier than I thought I was going to be about this. For a eBook the cover has to standout as black and white – subtle shades…
Continue readingWed, 12:27: is wondering if I should really admit to quite liking @itunes #Genius mixes… Wed, 14:03: @kathgamage So how does my friendly neighbourhood do? http://t.co/asKgg3TQ 3 out of 10 but pure guesswork! #tax #quiz Wed, 14:18: is curious as…
Continue readingAbout nine years ago rachel2205 interviewed me in five questions. After being reminded of this last weekend, she asked me five more… 1. If you could save just ONE object (i.e. not a living thing, assume they are safe!) from…
Continue readingTue, 14:04: RT @oxford_brookes: Watch Prof Janet Beer’s @Channel4News interview on Brookes’ increasing application rates bucking the national trend … Tue, 14:05: has posted my application for 10 beautiful ISBN numbers… Tue, 19:27: is, it appears, in a state of…
Continue readingFurther to Charlie Brooker’s recent article in The Guardian on the obsession with sharing every detail of your life online, and particularly with reference to the way that, unless you make the very deliberate act to turn off the feature,…
Continue readingMon, 22:05: The verdict from picc playing tonight with Rachel: not disasterous by any means, but I’m not sure I’m good enough to brave the band with it.
Continue readingClaire asked me yesterday whether I had ever had any negative comments or criticism over my writing and how I dealt with that. To be honest I can’t really recall ever having experienced that, so maybe that means I write…
Continue readingSun, 19:11: has finally got all the bills sorted out into like for like piles, and filed away in my desk… #filing #longtimecoming Sun, 20:41: Are there any rules or copyright on the text of the Title Verso page of…
Continue readingIt’s been an odd kind of day. It’s been a very cold, dull, grey day, the kind of day that dulls the sound of chickens squawking. Emma did the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, although there weren’t a hell of a…
Continue readingSat, 23:25: has just revisited what a fantastic film Labyrinth is… Sat, 23:56: : the post before midnight… http://t.co/n7zQf01n
Continue readingGive me the child. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours,…
Continue readingSat, 00:11: writing on success and frustration… http://t.co/hq8zBOB6 #writing #drawing
Continue reading~ Still perusing ideas for You Were My Betty, I think that Charlotte’s dissertation might have been about aspergers and the autism scale. I will never know but it strikes me as likely that, like so many other artists and…
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Continue readingThurs, 12:39: has my own telephone on my own desk again… #officepleasure Thurs, 13:57: RT @hss_brookes Help Dr Anna Nekaris’ campaign to #savetheslowloris. Sign the petition… http://t.co/ww7Er3dr More at http://t.co/aX0nLuVI Thurs, 16:21: has a weird brain. That is all. http://t.co/ljv0vq5s…
Continue readingI have a weird brain. Who else could have taken my random thought and turned it into a novel about a lonely man who marries his imaginary friend, has an imaginary child, and then they become real? This lunchtime, during…
Continue reading‘Where now? Where are we safe?’ ‘Nowhere.’ And so, at this somewhat troubling point, I reach the thirty-seventh chapter of Mr Tumnal’s story. It’s a turning point for them to realise that they are safe nowhere, but it is Nowhere…
Continue readingI have been an absentee writer to the story of my Mr Tumnal, and I hate myself for it. That’s not to say that I’ve not been busy and productive in other ways, but I always feel this way after…
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