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 moreBill sent me a copy of his most recent, hot off the press, newsletter today, and guess what? I feature in it! 2. A client called me up and asked if he could meet me for a session to support…
Continue reading13:21:53 considers doing unspeakable things to bastard greedy bankers… 16:38:45 finds that it is snowing again!
Continue reading13:21:53 considers doing unspeakable things to bastard greedy bankers… 16:38:45 finds that it is snowing again!
Continue readingSo, it seems that the global economic meltdown is hitting my wedding (in just 100 days time!) hard, and again – or at least our (depleting) guest list. Now it seems, that not content with taking out my Icelandic cousins,…
Continue reading08:27:42 is thinking: clear blue skies, cold and crisp air, patches of snow still on the ground – its a perfect winter’s day… 🙂
Continue reading08:27:42 is thinking: clear blue skies, cold and crisp air, patches of snow still on the ground – its a perfect winter’s day… 🙂
Continue readingNo, this isn’t a Battlestar Galactica related post about the different cylon models… There’s a stray cat at the vets at the moment. She’s mostly black with half a white face and funny walk. She’s undeniably cute and has an…
Continue reading08:43:53 wasn’t reading as I passed Jane on Little Clarendon Street this morning. How unusual…! 18:44:29 is all a bit mixed up and queasy inside about the future… 22:43:50 @janerawson It’s good job I’m getting closer to catching you up….
Continue reading08:43:53 wasn’t reading as I passed Jane on Little Clarendon Street this morning. How unusual…! 18:44:29 is all a bit mixed up and queasy inside about the future… 22:43:50 @janerawson It’s good job I’m getting closer to catching you up….
Continue reading08:38:13 is taking over an hour and counting to get to work… 🙁 11:58:22 finds that everybody, it seems, has work for me but no one has money for me
Continue reading08:38:13 is taking over an hour and counting to get to work… 🙁 11:58:22 finds that everybody, it seems, has work for me but no one has money for me
Continue readingIt might have indeed been cold; it might have been wet; and dark and miserable, but when I went to shut the chickies up for the night tonight there was a warm, blue egg under Wiggy. It was our twelfth…
Continue readingI’ve had a quiet day today. Emma had to go into work this morning so I had a lazy time having breakfast whilst watching some tele I’ve had on ye olde digi box for months (in this case the Blue…
Continue readingI wasn’t really looking forward to the drive over to Milton Keynes today. This wasn’t, you understand, because of the weather and of icy-snowy roads but because of going to Milton Keynes, to the shops, on a Saturday. As it…
Continue readingI’ve been working up the hours this week to make up for having today off. Weather-wise, I’m really glad I did as we woke up to a fresh covering of snow, and then pretty much blizzard conditions by breakfast time…
Continue readingAfter the snow of Monday and Tuesday which saw London and the South-East and even my parents getting all the fun of (for the latter) being cut off in their own homes with real, honest, decent amounts of snow, this…
Continue readingLast night, Em and I went into Oxford with David, Lucy and Katie from the vets to a talk in Wadham College about emotions and depression and meditation. It was very interesting. The guy giving a talk had such a…
Continue readingShit, shit, buggity-buggery-buggeration, shit, shit! So the projects that were going to be kicking off soon in the department that I could have been involved have now been pushed back ’til later in the year, if they happen at all,…
Continue readingLunch felt a bit weird today. For I don’t know how long, I’ve been munching on my sandwiches and working my way through corrections—striking through redundant words and inserting new sections and inflections. Today though, I started to sum up…
Continue reading16:17:43 Just dusting off the old twitter account and reconfiguring it for use… 18:52:15 @janerawson that does sound truly awful…
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