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 moreA day of play today. Following on from the annual January Playing Day and to celebrate Abingdon Concert Bandâs 30th Anniversary we all met again with two conductors in some unbelievably swish private prep school just outside Abingdon for a…
Continue readingTonight was the night of the Creation Theatre Press and VIP night for their new production of Hamlet. I met Claire (fellow flautist) and her boyfriend, and then we went in to wine and canapés in the VIP enclosure and…
Continue readingSo ‘Melanie’ wasn’t spam, but indeed is my second cousin once removed, and found me via ye olde interweb. How cool is that? On my line, and if you take a look at Sheptree you will see this, Elizabeth is…
Continue readingI’ve just had a very curious email. My first suspician is that its spam but if it is then it’s very weird spam. I don’t really get any to my lj address, and there’s something about it which makes me…
Continue readingOoh, how exciting! Well, possibly. It might all be a big, wet, squib but we shall see. A while back I expressed an interest in signing up to the BBC archive trial, and today I got an email that says…
Continue readingI’ve just discovered that I have left my notebook at home. This is the small Moleskine notebook in which I note down fragments of stories and thoughts. It’s more than a diary, and I feel lost without it, like a…
Continue readingIf a picture can say a thousand words then… …this is a very long post…
Continue readingIf I were in Harry Potter, I would be Hermione http://www.brainfall.com/test1… You are Hermione. You’re a bookworm always in search of answers. When pressed, however, you can always be counted on to put away the books and help your friends….
Continue readingThe past couple of days I’ve been working extra time up to give me time to leave earlier on Friday for the weekend. Today, I made an error in judgement in doing so. It had been raining on and off…
Continue readingI came downstairs this morning to blood stains on the floor and scattered feathers. I seems that either Bella or Arthur (or both) have started going birding…
Continue readingIF CAN READ THIS, I want to know 28 things about you. I don’t care if we’ve never talked, never liked each other, or if we already know everything about each other. I really don’t. You are obviously on my…
Continue readingFor as long as I’ve worked in offices – or actually probably even before that – I’ve had this day-dream/fantasy/yearning that suddenly and without warning the office woul break out in song. It would start with an innocent tapping of…
Continue readingI’ve fiinished painting my front door, which is good, because it looks so much better. But it’s also cold; the door is open, obviously, whilst the paint dries and it’s cold and grey. Still, it is getting a bit brighter…
Continue readingToday has been cold, cold and grey. And I’ve found it hard to settle today. I discovered that the other job I enquired about with Inspired Selection is actually the very same 6 month contract that I had an interview…
Continue readingSlept like the proverbial log last night. And waking up to a greyer than I have been used to, and actually quite cold, morning I have found myself a bit more positive about things than I was yesterday. The agency…
Continue readingI woke up today still bouyed up with thoughts about how well my interviews went yesterday. Apparently at Sophos, my html test that I did was, and I quote, ‘one of the best that they had ever seen’. It also…
Continue readingFollowing the climatic events of yesterday, a new month starts with the second of the two-part season finale. The ‘Big Finish’ was last night, and this episode is an altogether quieter affair constructed purely around a single character embarking on…
Continue readingConsciously at least, nothing was planned in my mind. Last night thought the subject of boyfriends and girlfriends came up – Clare is quitting her PE job to move up to Aberdeen and be with her Allan. This coupled with…
Continue readingIt’s hard to say what I thought my last day Blackwell (should that be Wiley-Blackwell now?) was going to be like. Truth is, I think, I didn’t have a clue. But, ‘an odd day’ does seem to cover it. It…
Continue readingYou know how some weekends are just good from start to finish? Well, this weekend has been one of those. There’s been no frittering of time doing really stupid, time-wasting things. It’s just been all, most definitely, good. This afternoon,…
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