Mr Tumnal

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

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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.

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The Imaginary Wife

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

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10:18 Extreme LitCrit. Genius. http://amzn.to/g3y5vl via @janerawson # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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09:42 remembers RND ’89 when they might have been uncomfortable & they gave you spots but you could at least breath wearing your nose! #rednoseday # 11:59 wonders whether the process of converting something from present to past tense can…

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09:42 remembers RND ’89 when they might have been uncomfortable & they gave you spots but you could at least breath wearing your nose! #rednoseday # 11:59 wonders whether the process of converting something from present to past tense can…

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12:36 : Turns out you can’t write a script by staring at it. Worth a try. via @steven_moffat # 21:42 has just managed to covert a whole chapter from present to past tense in the time that @EmmaEShepherd has talked…

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12:36 : Turns out you can’t write a script by staring at it. Worth a try. \via @steven_moffat # 21:42 has just managed to covert a whole chapter from present to past tense in the time that @EmmaEShepherd has talked…

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22:37 : 22 pages down, 284 to go… #frompresenttopast #tenses #writing #redrafting # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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16:50 : The time for libraries is NOW http://slidesha.re/dXU0kI (by @theREALwikiman) via @janerawson # 20:00 is worryingly concerned that my Comic Relief red nose makeover pic doesn’t look much different from me. At least he became a famous writer! #…

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16:50 : The time for libraries is NOW http://slidesha.re/dXU0kI (by @theREALwikiman) \via @janerawson # 20:00 is worryingly concerned that my Comic Relief red nose makeover pic doesn’t look much different from me. At least he became a famous writer! #…

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11:10 is typesetting… #eBook #production # 11:26 is looking up discretionary ligatures… #typesettingisfun # 21:58 is considering the tenses… #thenovel #revisions # 22:50 is considering possibly the biggest revision in the history of one of my novels… http://bit.ly/ib8v27 Eeek! #tenses…

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11:10 is typesetting… #eBook #production # 11:26 is looking up discretionary ligatures… #typesettingisfun # 21:58 is considering the tenses… #thenovel #revisions # 22:50 is considering possibly the biggest revision in the history of one of my novels… http://bit.ly/ib8v27 Eeek! #tenses…

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From the present, the past…

Further to reading this interesting article about self-publishing eBooks I have been giving serious thought to publishing my last novel, The End Of All Worlds, as an eBook, or more precisely a serialisation of eBooks. The book is neatly divided…

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From the present, the past…

Further to reading this interesting article about self-publishing eBooks I have been giving serious thought to publishing my last novel, The End Of All Worlds, as an eBook, or more precisely a serialisation of eBooks. The book is neatly divided…

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Libraries in the digital world

Interestingly coincidental that it should be on the same that I create an eBook out of my own novel, The End Of All Worlds, that points me in the direction of this interesting article on eBooks, eLending, and the future…

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Libraries in the digital world

Interestingly coincidental that it should be on the same that I create an eBook out of my own novel, The End Of All Worlds, that janejosiane points me in the direction of this interesting article on eBooks, eLending, and the…

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22:54 can say that @creationtheatre’s production of Doctor Faustus was brilliant! And it was pretty scary too… 😉 #theatre # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter

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