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 moreI have been remiss. Regular readers of these pages will remember that I used to write in these pages daily, sometimes twice daily or more often. Of late, despite my best intentions, my regular witterings As of tomorrow, I intend…
Continue readingSat, 12:06: RT @ChrisGPackham: Prisoner 1278 and Prisoner 1279 are now learning the ropes in a Siberian coal mine . Sentance – indeterminate .
Continue readingFri, 19:37: dislikes it when things that should work don’t work as they should. Today has been a 1 step forward, 2 steps back kind of day #frustrations Fri, 19:51: Scary Mary Poppins… be afraid, very afraid… http://t.co/fATSQfm3 \via @MHarrison13…
Continue readingThu, 12:58: RT @TobyBuckland: The Redwings have arrived so pick your Christmas holy now – they’ll strip the berries in days Thu, 13:45: loves lego and is awe of a lego Christmas tree… http://t.co/dnlZJAaj #lego #Christmas Thu, 16:05: “Drop the…
Continue readingWed, 14:06: is in awe of nature… http://t.co/yKl6sSui #murmation #starlings #nature Wed, 16:32: always finds it nice when I’m told that people like their new website design… #webdesign #goodsidetowork Wed, 23:06: Quite staggering to think of this: 3.74 degrees of…
Continue readingПн, 13:49: : surely in times of crisis, a novel is precisely what we should be turning to? http://t.co/0uxe5r8e #novels #timetoread Пн, 22:43: feels weird to be seeing Emma off to work at this time of night… 🙁
Continue readingSun, 18:12: enjoys the Sunday afternoon after the roast is all washed up, just snuggled in the lounge reading a book… Sun, 18:13: I’d say ‘good book’ in my previous tweet, were it not that that might sound a bit…
Continue readingThu, 12:15: is messing around with the new social engagement tool.. #socialmedia #work
Continue readingTues, 14:40: Give me 4 words & if I follow you I will guarantee* to put them in the 1st draft of my novel (*with the usual provisos & exceptions) #novel Tues, 18:12: has, in the last 18 weeks, lost…
Continue reading14:40 Give me 4 words & if I follow you I will guarantee* to put them in the 1st draft of my novel (*with the usual provisos & exceptions) #novel # 18:12 has, in the last 18 weeks, lost 10%…
Continue reading15:39 RT: @AlysFowler: ‘Asset-stripping the salad bar’ is a great sentence. # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue reading22:09 has just submitted my contribution to @BritainInADay #BritainInADay # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue reading09:38 is it just me or does anyone else think its a boyband in trouble when you read about the Eurozone crisis? # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue reading09:58 is intrigued to see there’s a new Snow White film. It looks Dark. t.co/8f4Hi5uN Hope the trailer isn’t all the good bits though! # 10:38 Tonight at 16.40 #newsround is showing special about autism. Sounds like it will be…
Continue reading16:30 with bit.ly/sSqNNQ #norsegods #mythology # 16:01 If we don’t help our hedgehogs, they could be gone by 2020. So get helping… bbc.in/rEt4UX #Autumnwatch # 16:02 The UK is blocking Robin Hood Tax – email your MP now to up…
Continue reading09:28 Scrabble king celebrates with night on tiles gu.com/p/336pm/tw via @guardian # 09:25 The Olympic torch is coming to a town near you gu.com/p/337t2/tw via @guardian # 09:19 is looking forward to 11:11:11 on 11/11/11 – the happy palindrome o’clock…
Continue reading09:35 RT @AlysFowler Now this I love, mostly because it has ‘The Book of Love’ by Magnetic Fields youtube.com/watch?v=2tC81n… #
Continue reading19:22 Tonight’s meal will be mostly orange… #pumpkins twitpic.com/7aub6f #
Continue reading20:30 Dive in! Release your own zebrafish into the BHF hope tank and help mend broken hearts! hopetank.bhf.org.uk/flash.html # 10:11 Just signed a petition against VAT on ebooks epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/114 As a writer I had to, really, didn’t I? #ebooks #vat…
Continue reading22:18 has been preoccupied of late reading last novel, but has tonight managed to write myself past a section of #MrTumnal that was troubling me # 19:34 is, another weigh-in down, another 1lb lighter. Nothing to compare to @EmmaEShepherd &…
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