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 moreWho’s Job Is It? This is the story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody…
Continue readingThe BBC asked people to vote for the top 50 things everyone should try a bite of in their lifetime. Bold the ones you’ve eaten.
Continue readingIn a small way to celebrate various people on my friends list doing the NaNoWriMo Challenge, aapplecatching has given me 45 words of hers (I only asked for 20) to kickstart my own writing project again. These are provided below,…
Continue reading…and the number of words is zero. Not that I haven’t been busy. I’ve been tidying up my Grannie’s Roe Family History, and persuading my printer to print a booklet with the pages aligned in the right places. Even so,…
Continue readingA pleasing thing occurred to me at work today. With the last bit of holiday that I’m taking off this year, this week will be the last 5-day week that I work in 2005. What follows will be a series…
Continue readingFor anyone who loves a good ghost story, you should head over to the BBC Listen Again site and listen to Monday nights The Archers. I’m not going to spoil it for you if haven’t heard it, ‘cos it’s sheer…
Continue readingDriving home from Uncle Alan aunt Auntie Caroline’s this afternoon along the M40, I came through the hill above Princes Risborough, just at the right moment. The sun was setting, and spread out before me was the whole of Oxfordshire…
Continue readingThe difference being, that, it’s not every roast that you cook where the oven door falls off halfway through! Well, I say the door, but really I mean the handle and class plate, and thankfully the glass plate did not…
Continue readingOnly about 29,000 words to go then, chapter five is off to a fine start, exploring the huldufolk side of the Ármannsson Family. Just what is Solveig hiding though … and what part will she yet play in the unfolding…
Continue readingI watched the first, double (at 1 hour’s length) episode of the BBC’s new adaptation of Bleak House tonight. It’s probably to early to really say, but it’s impressive so far. The kind of old school adaptation of classic books….
Continue readingOn Monday, I took advantage of it being half term to nip round the Oxford ringroad after work and got myself an external soundcard. This week, whilst writing long, personal, highly protected posts and persueing how Solveig is manipulating both…
Continue readingBack when dreams were dreams, and college was something in the future, I thought that Editorial or Commissioning Editor was where I was pointed. Then I did my publishing course and I tempted in some publishers and saw what goes…
Continue readingThe road ahead is on, not back. So last week, I had the finale, the curtain call to my probationary period in my new job. It was nothing that I did not know already – I have been finding the…
Continue readingJust fired up ye olde microsofte worde, to get to work on chapter five, and clicked the ‘load recent documents’ function… Word was unable to read this document. It may be corrupt. Try one or more of the following: *…
Continue readingOn tonight’s Front Row they announced a poll of the best and worst use of rhyme in pop songs, as inspired by something that Yoko Ono said about Paul McCartney’s style of songwriting/rhyming abilities. This got me thinking of the…
Continue readingLook at my icons [yes, I know, I have an obscenely large number of them!] and apply a different icon to your answers to these questions (either link to it or paste the icons in with your replies so I…
Continue readingI think so. It seems that everyone who reads these pages and is interested in such things much prefers a good book whilst curled on the end of the sofa to any other Sunday activity. This said, yes you’ve guessed…
Continue readingThe thing, of which I wouldn’t speak… It really, really does seem totally inconsequential now (like I said it was). I will write about it in due course, but surfice it to say that I am feeling better about it….
Continue readingMy brother just phoned me. Granny Shepherd, my dad’s mum has died this afternoon. The last time I saw her was Granpa’s 90th birthday celebration a month or so back, and a few week’s ago she saw her great great…
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