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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Read more18:27 Anyone know what that fairground ride is where you spin round and round in circles, and each set of seating are on arms that spin round? # 20:05 has written to my MP to ask them to vote to…
Continue readingIt took me a while to get stuck into my writing tonight, but I’ve come out of the other side of the evening with another couple of pages written and mind in the midst of the fair. Thanks to all…
Continue reading15:57 has seen my first Bittern today at @wwtlondon. Very exciting! 🙂 # 22:33 is dreaming of a future in closeup… www.jessops.com/online.store/products/66332/show.html #photography #dslr # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue readingWhen we woke today to cold and grey and general mizzle, the idea of going for a day out to the Facebook group meetup at WWT London for a show’n’tell of nature photography. We had pictures from as far away…
Continue reading09:32 imagines a university town on the edge of the Cotswolds with trams and metros to hop on and hop off… on.fb.me/frAugM #writing # 10:04 would like my publishing friends to imagine finishing work on sunny Friday pm; hopping on…
Continue readingAcross last weekend and the early part of this week the words were pouring out of my pen onto the page and my novel was making swift progress. More down being busy with other things than anything else, but in…
Continue reading20:12 would like you to take a minute to write to your local council improve support for people with autism… bit.ly/dO580E # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue reading14:09 is reading about the Saxon heritage of Bicester… www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/30163/8795616 #bicester #archaeology # 22:05 : and so the training starts here. How many cats can you get to do their business in a toilet? Our new #LitterKwitter bit.ly/bdaZEH # Automatically…
Continue readingSunday, was undeniably wild, wet and windy. Emma and I did manage a nice walk out across the fields at the end of Launton Road (probably our closest bit of ‘country’), but other than that it really was a day…
Continue reading10:16 would really like to go out for a walk this morning followed by some good hibernation time. It’s that kind of day. #winterweekends # 19:10 RT @krishgm When The Kings Speech cleans up at BAFTA and Oscars will ministers…
Continue reading11:42 has realised that books are my drug. I’m an addict. #books # 19:04 has just written about 500 words to #MrTumnal in the time it took Emma to have a brief, afternoon sleep… #progressisprogress # Automatically bleated by LoudTwitter
Continue readingThursday evening was the perfect example of that strange phenomenon whereby one’s best creative ideas occur to one, at the most inconvenient of times. Umm, like driving… Such as it was for me today, driving home – in some quite…
Continue readingBack in the summer, when we first head that Creation Theatre were going to do Rapunzel or The Magic Pig in the antique spiegeltent this Christmas, we were a little unsure about whether or not we wanted to go and…
Continue reading23:16 went back in time 10 years tonight; Hilary was sitting next to me playing Les Mis on flute. I certainly played more notes than back then 🙂 # 12:53 I scored 5 out of 7 on the BBC News…
Continue reading10:15 : If we could convert greed into energy, we’d solve our global warming problem via @melliebuse # 12:17 wonders whether my office bin is ever going to be emptied? There’s things in the bottom that were thrown out last…
Continue reading23:46 can’t stop the plotting. Not even at twemty to midnight… # 10:19 RT @janerawson @newsobserver Twitter’s full of regional accents bit.ly/fSzYq7 # 12:15 : One of life’s greatest truths is that socks do not mate for life. via @melliebuse…
Continue readingI wrote yesterday how the spelling and grammar challenged among us can use facebook and twitter to our advantage! Today I called upon my fellow tweeters and facebookers in the course of research. I have a scene coming up in…
Continue readingI’ve been striving for the this milestone for the last few weeks, inching steadily, closer and closer. And now I’m here. What’s more, I’m about there when it comes to my mental plan of the novel. The point in the…
Continue reading16:04 wonders: should it be Mum and Dad or mum and dad? Always? Ever? …never? #grammar #question # 16:22 thinks that I should write about how the spelling and grammar challenged among us can use facebook and twitter to our…
Continue readingWhilst I was retracing my steps on Saturday looking for my lost amber, I heard part of BBC Radio 4’s Weekend Woman’s Hour, which had a bit all amount creative writing and why picking up the pen still wins out…
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