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 moreI have recently registered with Critique Circle and uploaded my first story there. It’s up for critiquing on the 22 November as I still try and find my way around the site. It feels right to try out this critiquing…
Continue readingBlackwell Publishing sold for £572m by Maggie Hartford 5:25pm Friday 17th November 2006 The Blackwell family has ended a long-running feud about the future of its publishing company by selling it to a US rival for £572m. John Wiley &…
Continue readingPartly in a response to a resupply request of some Electronic Deliverables made by TechBooks in which, in additon to supplying them to the ftp site they sent me a copy of the file: mnr_v0_i0_aor_g9E7B1C7A-0716-4F26-B756-B5B2788E7562.go with the message: p.s.: Although…
Continue readingAt eleven-thirty this morning we had an email round saying that our CEO was to make an announcement to the whole company at 1.30pm this afternoon in the atrium and that any meetings scheduled should be cancelled, any visitors would…
Continue readingI’ve just discovered that I have inadvertently given Hanna Katla’s mother the same name as one of the alfar characters – Eyrún. And of course I can’t even get round it with a global Find&Replace to get me out of…
Continue readingI have now revised the first two chapters of Blood & Fire. Or to put it another way, the first 25 pages. I could say 6% – but which ever way I put it, it does sound like a pathetically…
Continue readingStroll over here if you are a paid member and you want to extend your paid time do the recent service outage…
Continue readingHave just listened to tonight’s episode of The Archers – bloomin’ heck it was good – it was brilliant. Way, way better than the special 15,000th episode last Tuesday night. For the uninitiated, David Archer (son of Phil Archer, widow…
Continue readingThis morning, as I was having my breakfast, and after Bella and Arthur finished there’s, Arthur mosied up to the cat flap and pushed his way through. Bella followed. When I got home this evening, Bella was waiting for me…
Continue readingA message from my dad… You may be interested in the international video-seminar I am giving for WUN on Wed 8 November (details below), (at 12 noon EST, 1700 GMT) which will (I hope) also be web-cast live on http://media2.cac.psu.edu:8080/ramgen/encoder/WUN_live.rm….
Continue readingToday Has not ended in the way I would have liked I will bounce back I always do Right now, though I have lost my bounce
Continue readingI used to know exactly how many interviews I’d had – now I forget – but it’s something like 60 since the Summmer of 96 (maybe I should write a rock song by that name… *grins*). Certainly I was on…
Continue readingHave you heard the story about the honey bee genome that’s taking world by storm? I certainly did. On Friday afternoon I pushed through the latest issue of Insect Molecular Biology in a record time of 2 hours and 26…
Continue readingCoincidentally, when I came to peruse the current ‘advance’ job vacancies list when it was handed to me on Tuesday, there was one, for the post of Producer in Web Prodution for which I had to go back to Duncan…
Continue readingEncouraging enough though to get me away from frittering my time away, fiddling with making my websites conform to Accessibility rules and creating band posters, though? I hope so – another WriteWords review… I’ve finally managed to take a look…
Continue readingIt’s been coming for a while now, but with no end date or details it’s been hard to really plan for things, except to apply for other things as they come up. On 30 April 2007, the job role of…
Continue reading…but I did get a good review from someone net to WriteWords, even if they did think that T E SHEPHERD was a girl… 😉 I really like the way you frequently switch between different characters’ p.o.v.s, it kept my…
Continue readingWhy is that cat flaps have to make a disconcerting flap-flapping noise upon opening and closing. It seems to frighten the life out of young Bella and Arthur. Segregating one of them off temporarily into the cat basket I showed…
Continue reading1. An odd day. Very heavy rain greeted an even darker than usual morning – so dark, so wet, that I failed to see the ocean sized puddle out the back of the house as I ran across to get…
Continue readingAn ethereal light greeted me this morning; the sky cast in red, and a mist over the fields. The drive through Oxfordshire countryside lost something as I neared work, as gentle, serene mist seeped in grey fog and cold drizzle….
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