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 nice sunny, spring day today, just right in fact for a walk in the woods. So i headed over to Amersham – it’s not actually that far and met up with Emma, and we had a spot of lunch…
Continue readingI like my new bike. Did I mention that? It is good to be back on two wheels. Today I skirted ’round the ringroad to the free Watereaton Park&Ride, and then cycled into town. Got there and back okay â…
Continue readingIt has been a while since my last posting on this, my most tightly locked filter. This is because I have had nothing of news to impart. That is, until now. For the past three weeks I have been emailing,…
Continue readingAlan from Sophos has just called. I now, *officially* have a second interview for the job. 🙂 It’s next Tuesday morning. Good job I don’t drink to excess otherwise I might have to curb any excess at my leaving do!…
Continue readingWith all that’s going on in my life at the moment, I figured that I needed a bit of a treat. So today I splashed out some of last month’s bonus (apart from sensibly paying off remaining bits of the…
Continue readingJust got back from Abingdon – least said about the cursed traffic Census that doubled what should have been a half hour journey the better – but, wow! I guess that’s what it feels like to have a really good…
Continue readingSome of my regular readers may have noticed, and indeed wondered about, the almost month-long silence in activity in these pages. I’m not entirely sure why that was, I did have ideas of what I wanted to say and posts…
Continue readingAgghhh! It feels like homework all over again. I have my Web Content Editor test in front of me, which consists of three exercises I need to complete and return before my interview tomorrow, and it all feels too much…
Continue readingThe sun has been shining and Spring is definitely sprunging all around, and so far a number of good things have happened. 🙂 1. Yesterday I sent an en-masse email invite around just about everyone who I’ve ever worked with…
Continue readingGoogle might be good at finding out what odd passtimes the bloke two pods down from you at work likes doing in his spare time, or for finding irresistably cute pictures of cats, but it does seem a little lacking…
Continue readingThe cottage in Hemmingsford Abbots is adorably old and small and cute. Of white (though traditonally dirty) brick it has roses round the door. Originally a one up, one down cottage with ladder staircase, it has been extended twice. Once…
Continue readingArrived back in Bicester mid-evening yesterday and so woke up this morning for the first time in over a week in my own bed, and of course Bella and Arthur woke up for the first time in their own beds….
Continue readingIt’s been nice this, un-planned full-week off, and I definitely picked a good week for it with the weather. Daily walks on the forest with the dog, and afternoons sitting about in the garden, or be it a ragbag selection…
Continue readingI received my first Icelandic critique of the opening chapters of my novel today. It didn’t come, as you might think, from one of the my cousins, but from a fellow critter, Sif Traustadóttir, on CritiqueCircle. When I saw that…
Continue readingWoot! Cambridge won the Boat Race! A brilliant race by anyone’s standards. Both teams rowed well. Oxford did well to stop Cambridge making use of their first bend, but then, where the heck did Cambridge get the power to see…
Continue readingSome of you might have been wondering where I’ve got to? No new chapters and no new critting. Sorry, I’ve been so lame, but I’ve been concentrating on not drowning as I was brave/foolish/utterly mad* enough (*delete as applicable) to…
Continue readingWell, after that rash decision back in January, when New Yearâs resolutions were still firmly in mind, the time has finally come. On Saturday I am swimming in Swimathon 2007 in support of Marie Curie Cancer Care. Tonight, I went…
Continue readingTurn to page 123 in your work-in-progress. (If you haven’t gotten to page 123 yet, then turn to page 23. If you haven’t gotten there yet, then get busy and write page 23.) Count down four sentences and then instead…
Continue reading1. One of the very pretty little Oxfordshire villages that I pass through on the way to work is Islip. There’s a little road just round the side of village that alway floods, though not to the level that it’s…
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