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 moreIn June 1992 I borrowed one of the school video cameras and recorded our second year Visual Art show (in the Alsager Arts Centre). I think I recorded it in Hi8 format but subsequently put a copy on VHS –…
Continue readingIn a renewed quest to archive, digitally, much of my work I found this, my first ever film, on an old VHS tape, squeezed between films and TV series recorded from the television. A ‘short’, its all about how we…
Continue reading20:11:13: by ‘eck its busy in the local Chinese tonight… 22:09:29: : if a day could be so completely different to the plan, then today would have been it. Not really a good use of a day’s holiday… Tweets copied…
Continue reading09:33:48: My Twitter BFFs: @rosietratt @harrisonmm @laurajane2011 @carolineverdon @sophbrad @janerawson. Find yours @ http://twitterbffs.com 10:53:55: always likes it when, after showing a site design to a client, they say that I’ve achieved what they were looking for. #webdesign #win 15:11:36:…
Continue reading11:33:14: has a weird feeling of happiness after being told that if a Web Designer isn’t allowed to be #OCD about things then no one is! #webdesign 16:36:49: considers the ying and the yang; for every 1 person who listens…
Continue reading16:05:03: has been called many things in my time, but never bizarre. Bizarre? Moi? Never… 😉 23:43:14: would like to know why it is that I get intense #inspiration to write at the most inconvenient of times? I mean, 11.30pm!…
Continue reading00:16:46: could’ve carried on #writing then for a lot longer than I did. Damn school night bedtimes! 07:44:14: : can there be any simpler pleasure than putting a freshly laid, still warm, egg to your cheek in the morning? 11:39:02:…
Continue reading22:05:11: is writing a family Christmas, with important presents to be given out… #writing #MrTumnal 22:46:11: is wondering why #facebook and #livejournal no longer likes my tweets…? And where has #loudtweeter gone? Tweets copied by twittinesis.com
Continue readingI’ve had a very productive night writing, and have just got to the scene that I’ve been working towards for a while and looking forward to writing – the one where the leaf and litter monster rears up out of…
Continue reading14:01 likes productive lunchtime breaks. Another 1½ pages done and closer to the end of part two… #MrTumnal #writing #TheNovel # 16:29 knows that this one is a contentious issue, but in my view coordinators with a hyphen really does…
Continue reading10:54 thinks that Murray is doing okay in his FIRST Grand Slam Final considering the amount of negative energy coming from the commentary box! # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue reading23:27 writes about the conflict of interests that I have; a yearning for simpler ways of life v. my need for an internet life bit.ly/feLFli # 00:56 has a #litterkwitter update. At leaast 2 confirmed cases of usage of full…
Continue readingImagine, for a moment what’s worse than a claustrophobic house of mirrors. Now imagine, an ever-changing, moving house of mirrors. Kathryn and Louis have entered a ride at the (in all but in name) St Giles fair, a ride that…
Continue readingFound on an old VHS tape, my honours project video from 1993. It’s a curious piece – got good marks though and was viewed by a capacity crowd! Featuring Sophie Bradbury, Soula Carmichael, Thomas Shepherd and the music of Ian…
Continue reading12:50 wonders why some people still think double spaces and spaced punctuation is really neat idea? #typesetting # 15:31 …and why would you still think that putting a full stop after Dr is a good idea. It’s not an abbreviation,…
Continue readingWhat am I? A writer, an artist, a photographer and a web designer? I love the technology of the twenty-first century, and indeed I feel absolutely at home with online journals, blogging, the twittersphere and every aspect of social networking….
Continue reading14:15 imagines what’s worse than a claustrophobic house of mirrors; an ever-changing, moving house of mirrors… #thefair #writing #MrTumnal # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue reading10:38 wonders whether British Gas would ever have told me the date of my boiler’s annual service if I hadn’t have phoned them to ask? #utilityfail # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue reading11:56 wonders what is one of your smallest pleasures, that makes you super happy? via @rosietratt # 12:20 : if nothing else this demonstrates that the UK gov is cutting for ideological not austerity purposes bbc.in/hjWGJD Welcome to 1981.. #…
Continue readingThe spiralling, circling Scorpion ride flung the fair-goers down into the crowd before casting them up towards the high,fifteenth century, turreted walls of the colleges. Lights flashed and swirled and music loomed out of speakers from every ride. Kathryn dodged…
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