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 more1. Bella went to visit Aunty Gemma for the day today, and has come back microshipped and shaven down one side. An awfully large area of shaving considering the small operation performed. Next weekend, if the weather is fine, my…
Continue reading[courtesy of aurora_floyd] People throughout the country are being asked to contribute to a mass web log recording a day in the life of Britain. Tuesday 17 October has been picked as an “ordinary day much like any other of…
Continue readingI have begun redrafting my novel, and my workspace looks something like this; all ink of green and red and blue; notes and crossings out…
Continue readingThe subject line to this post just about sums up my weekend. But it’s been better than that. I’ve not begun re-reading Blood & Fire yet, but I have made a start on a first ‘prologue’ chapter to Mr Tumnal….
Continue readingWhilst plucking up the courage to read Blood & Fire back from the beginning, I have started work on my new novel, the first ‘prologue’ chapter of which I’ve posted here – hot off the press so to speak. The…
Continue readingOur next concert, is themed, intriguingly, Transport of Delight and features music from all the popular, and some not so popular, modes of transport. As transport goes fast (and in the case of a Model T irratic), much of the…
Continue readingAnyone interested in words and writing, and creating stories should take a look at the brilliant 2sides2nowhere. Umm… that is all.
Continue readingConceived in August 2001. 105,745 words; 385 pages; 250 days in the writing; 5 years in the making. Blood & Fire is finished. I’m pleased, and I’m bereft all at the same time. I want to go back and read…
Continue readingHanna steps closer to both of them, holding the alfar sword in both hands. She must kill one of them and be free, but which one? She breathes fast looking from wolf to god; from god to wolf; she lifts…
Continue readingaurora_floyd might be interested in this, or at least she will be once they’ve done the whole country and not just London… Me? I’ve always been ex-directory.
Continue readingWhich, in fitting Thomas style, is to be told in flashback as the final cataclismic events unfold. And then… I’ll be done.
Continue readingAnd so it came to pass: 103,142 words later I reach the final chapter, but is there still another death.
Continue readingThanks to the Sunday night pizza, and a dose of US teenage drama, I think I’ve just worked out how it is that I will get to the end of the road. It’s been a blast hanging around here, but…
Continue readingOne of my new neighbours appears to be sitting in the garden playing the Stars Wars theme on their cello…
Continue readingWith a little help from camomiletea in the Support Area, I have finally fixed my journal archive so that all the links work. I’ve been meaning to do that for a while now… 😉
Continue readingNot a particularly great day today. A couple of bad YouWriteOn reviews didn’t start the day off too good. This is coupled with general uncertainness about my future once the Validation Tool is fully rolled out (at a yet too…
Continue readingAnother YouWriteOn review. With reviews like this it’s going to be hard for me to keep my spirits up… The very first line of this story seemed promising. But then I found the next three paragraphs written in a choppy…
Continue readingI try to write for myself, and the most part I do, but even so, I thought a few of my recent posts might have made a little bit of noise in the ether. Take this, or this? Maybe this…?…
Continue readingToday I was emailing back and fourth with Elizabeth Ewing aka. Kerner who works with me, all be it in the Edinburgh office, about this and that (mostly it has to be say the glamness of Bella’s new collar) but…
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