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 more00:25:26: finds it weird that I’ve just posted my whole childhood as three albums containing 220 photos; I’ve been known to take that many in a day! Tweets copied by twittinesis.com
Continue reading17:15:19: has had a very nice walk round Old Bicester with @EmmaEShepherd today. There’s actually a surprisingly large amount of old Bicester left 🙂 Tweets copied by twittinesis.com
Continue reading08:04:17: finds it disconcerting to not wake up to the Today programme… #bbcstrikes Tweets copied by twittinesis.com
Continue reading08:17:43: has noticed how all the cats face East to eat their breakfast? Is this a religious thing? 11:37:20: has noticed that the new facebook layout seems to signal the final deathblow to the *is* status… #oldschoolfacebook 16:23:12: actually agrees…
Continue reading19:53:07: : High Streets then and now http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11651059 via @BBCNews 20:42:20: has just got @EmmaEShepherd to eat leaks. I had to burn them, but she ate them…. #cookingsuccess 21:02:55: has discovered the one thing worse than a veterinary nurse; a…
Continue readingYesterday I turned the cover on a new leather bound notebook for the second half of writing Mr Tumnal. It smells new and delicious and inviting to the pen. At times when I write my novel, my handwriting and resemble…
Continue reading14:51:42: You have received a new message http://twitpic.com/32y9x7 22:21:50: is trying an experiment as to whether it is just sloe gin, by seeing if a wee glass of Vana Tallinn has the same effects on creativity… 22:56:06: : to eliminate…
Continue reading13:00:26: thinks that a wee sloe gin in the evening brings on a nighttime of storytelling dreaming… #serialdreams Tweets copied by twittinesis.com
Continue reading16:56:03: Please keep signing Save our Forests petition has just passed 25,000! http://bit.ly/8Y41by via @ChrisGPackham Tweets copied by twittinesis.com
Continue readingAs I write my way towards the mid-point in the story, we find out that the complicated relationship Kathryn Summers has with Louis Tumnal is about to get a bit more complicated… 34451 / 80000 words. 43% done!
Continue reading22:48:31: has scanned 89 photos. Not bad for an evening… #digitisation #archivist Tweets copied by twittinesis.com
Continue reading09:35:25: RT @ChrisGPackham: So now the government seems to be planning to sell off the family timber . See http://disq.us/pyxpj and get ready to … 09:41:13: wonders why our beautiful government are hell bent at at destroying the arts? Its…
Continue reading11:00:22: Government has plans to sell UK’s ancient forests. Sign the petition to Save our Forests http://bit.ly/8Y41by #38degrees #savebritforests 20:12:29: finds writing claims letters and reporting the second crime of the month to the police all a bit too stressful…
Continue reading14:49:02: Stop the UK from snooping on all our email and Facebook messages http://bit.ly/stopthesnooping #IMP #privacy #bigbrother 18:21:53: : if this is true, then this is absolutely terrible! They can’t be allowed to get away with it! http://ind.pn/cQzJ8Q 19:43:08: wonders…
Continue reading12:56:44: wonders how suspicious is that the workman are all loitering round a hole in the ground with a fire extingusher after an explosion of dust? 17:32:44: would like to know why we are being targeted by abusive window sellers?…
Continue readingAn interesting article on the future of publishing, changing processes within publishers… Rethinking the Publishing Company by Kassia Krozser September 14th, 2010 I think we all know what the publisher of today looks like. The hierarchy and positions have become…
Continue readingA picture of sibling love; William Jefferys and Blini Shepherd…
Continue readingYesterday I found a satsuma at the bottom of my satchel; today Emma Shepherd found an old banana at the bottom of her lunch bag. Both were not entirely what you would imagine…
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