Mr Tumnal

Everyone has an idea of their ideal family. Not everyone’s become real

Read more  
T E Shepherd Official Author Photo - Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike BY+SA
About me

Derbyshire born. Suffolk bred. Lives in the shires.

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.

Read more
  The Imaginary Wife

The Imaginary Wife

How would you feel if you discovered you were the imaginary creation of your best friend?

Read more  
journal

The Time Was When

10:27 : Elbow win Dynamic Range Day Award 2011 t.co/1WhIfrW #DRD11 # 11:17 is so proud of @EmmaEShepherd & her 88% in her last assignment. If there’s something strange; with your pussycats, ya know who ya gonna call # 14:06…

Continue reading
Uncategorized

The Time Was When

13:23 Tonight! 7.30pm @ Abingdon Guildhall! Miss it, or miss out! http://fb.me/yftpux2m # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

Continue reading
Uncategorized

The Time Was When

09:24 on The Art vs. The Craft of writing, and realising where I was going wrong for so many years… http://bit.ly/hEDBrH #writing #craft # 13:59 on the dream; to be published or be publisher… http://shepline.livejournal.com/868797.html #writing #publishing #publisher # Automatically…

Continue reading
journal

The Time Was When

09:24 on The Art vs. The Craft of writing, and realising where I was going wrong for so many years… http://bit.ly/hEDBrH #writing #craft # 13:59 on the dream; to be published or be publisher… http://shepline.livejournal.com/868797.html #writing #publishing #publisher # Automatically…

Continue reading
Uncategorized

On considering the dream

I’m currently reading 13 Curses, the second book in Michelle Harrison’s trilogy of dark fairies books. She worked for an Oxford-based publisher at the same time as I did (although I never actually knew her) and recently I read this…

Continue reading
journal

On considering the dream

I’m currently reading 13 Curses, the second book in Michelle Harrison’s trilogy of dark fairies books. She worked for an Oxford-based publisher at the same time as I did (although I never actually knew her) and recently I read this…

Continue reading
Uncategorized

The Art vs. The Craft

This post began life in a comment to a recent post by Helen; one that made me consider art vs. craft of writing a novel. I think that I too might have payed too much attention to doing something different…

Continue reading
journal

The Art vs. The Craft

This post began life in a comment to a recent post by Helen; one that made me consider art vs. craft of writing a novel. I think that I too might have payed too much attention to doing something different…

Continue reading
Uncategorized

The Time Was When

15:27 : if God were to exist then s/he certainly seems to have it in for the world… #earthquake #burma #platetectonics # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter #

Continue reading
journal

The Time Was When

15:27 : if God were to exist then s/he certainly seems to have it in for the world… #earthquake #burma #platetectonics # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter #

Continue reading
Uncategorized

The Time Was When

11:53 wonders if anyone else has ever imagined what it would be like to climb up inside a rainbow? #Bifrost # 15:40 : you come out of a 2 hour meeting & petrol’s down 1p in the #budget, things are…

Continue reading
journal

The Time Was When

11:53 wonders if anyone else has ever imagined what it would be like to climb up inside a rainbow? #Bifrost # 15:40 : you come out of a 2 hour meeting & petrol’s down 1p in the #budget, things are…

Continue reading
Uncategorized

The Time Was When

20:16 had revelation moment today. I’ve actually worked out how to describe what The End of All Worlds is about in 2-3 lines http://bit.ly/hi91XJ # 22:09 has had a very nice venison casserole tonight. Substituted the red wine with sloe…

Continue reading
journal

The Time Was When

20:16 had revelation moment today. I’ve actually worked out how to describe what The End of All Worlds is about in 2-3 lines http://bit.ly/hi91XJ # 22:09 has had a very nice venison casserole tonight. Substituted the red wine with sloe…

Continue reading
Uncategorized

The Time Was When

09:32 http://twitpic.com/4bqmup – sees that Spring has Sprung… 🙂 # 11:33 Please RT if you’ve seen our umbrella poster around the campus! http://on.fb.me/hscJ1n # 12:43 This Saturday! The sequel to last year’s sold out concert! Return to Broadway, Abingdon Guildhall…

Continue reading
journal

The Time Was When

09:32 http://twitpic.com/4bqmup – sees that Spring has Sprung… 🙂 # 11:33 Please RT if you’ve seen our umbrella poster around the campus! http://on.fb.me/hscJ1n # 12:43 This Saturday! The sequel to last year’s sold out concert! Return to Broadway, Abingdon Guildhall…

Continue reading
Uncategorized

The Time Was When

09:38 : when do chickens sound like seagulls? When its Sunday morning and they want their breakfast! #chickens # 22:12 is tired. Can’t. Stop. Yawning. #sleepstime # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

Continue reading
journal

The Time Was When

09:38 : when do chickens sound like seagulls? When its Sunday morning and they want their breakfast! #chickens # 22:12 is tired. Can’t. Stop. Yawning. #sleepstime # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

Continue reading

Popular posts

Working on the full-size illustration of Hector's Books from @debbieyounghawkesbury's Sophie Sayers series of mysteries... #artistsofinstagram #illustratorsofinstagram

Working on the full-size illustration of Hector’s Books from @debbieyounghawkesbury’s Sophie Sayers series of mysteries… #artistsofinstagram #illustratorsofinstagram

Simple but nice

Tackling the epic

Am I weird?

The end of page 332

There is an explanation. I’m not saying that it is necessary the explanation, but it has more than a little to do with the resolution of the story. Will...

Only "just" quarter to five