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 moreEdwig The Hedgehog Originally uploaded by shepline on 21 Jun ’05, 1.50pm PST. Meet my little friend. Twice now he’s turned up to sit at my back door and watch Wimbledon highlights. Bring on those slugs and snails, I need…
Continue readingBased on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in1. paul merton score: 272. the now show score: 153. ross noble score: 134. peter cook score:…
Continue readingTonight was one of those nights when I discovered that, I have indeed, improved in my flute playing. I still, by no means, play every note (in some pieces – far from it!) but when I do I am mostly…
Continue readingOkay, so I know that it’s not Friday. Not technically. But I’m off tomorrow, off to the county of my birth (Derbyshire), so for me, yes, today it is Friday. The thing is I’m really enjoying my new job, and…
Continue readingAnd so my tenure as a Production Editor begins. I have begun working on two of my journals, BOJ and BIJ (and will have ZOJ added to my list once I’ve got to grips fully with the first two). Today,…
Continue readingThis afternoon, I made the trek down to Wallingford to play in one of Abingdon Concert Band’s summer ‘gigs’. Today was an event organised by the local Brownie troop (is that what they are called?) to play in the castle…
Continue readingIt appears that if you decide to search for Gomorszolos on Google, my travelogues are the first two results. There are considerably more hits this year than there were last year, when I was trying to find out more about…
Continue readingAnd then there was One (and he too left Budapest…) Day 14. 31 July 2004 Saturday – last day in Budapest – Hungary even. Most of my new found friends have departed already. I meet with Steven downstairs in the…
Continue readingOne by one, we say goodbye… Day 13. 30 July 2004 Friday. When my alarm goes off just after 5 o’clock in the morning, I know that today of all days I must get up. As 5.30 approaches we are…
Continue readingThe rain it raineth every day Day 12. 29 July 2004 Thursday. I wake around 6.30 for a 7 o’clock breakfast. It has been raining all night, but it is beginning to ease, for the first time in four days…
Continue readingTonight, is the eve of my last day as ECQC – an Electronic Content Quality Controller. Exactly five and a half years ago, I gave up the day to day drudgery of data entry and temp jobs to leap headlong…
Continue readingAnd that It is write. I can’t help myself – I am driven – to write. I am reminded of this – not that I need any reminding – when I go along to possibly my first (there may have…
Continue readingMy laptop arrived today. I say arrived, but I eventually had to drive 10 miles out of my way to wrestle it free of the courier company. It seems that when they agree to deliver to you in an evening…
Continue readingBathing in caves and Eating Wendy Day 11. 28 July 2004 Wednesday. I wake sometime in the middle of the night – 3:30 maybe – and go back to sleep – then again at 7 – aghh my alarm! It’s…
Continue readingKilling Wendy and a slice of meat in fur Day 10. 27 July 2004 Tuesday. When we wake around 7:30, it is still raining – a continual patter patter on roof and out in the yard. Stepping out, refreshed and…
Continue readingHaystacks and thunderstorms Day 9. 26 July 2004 Monday. I sleep well. Too well. My alarm goes off and sleep on through, waking eventually at five to six. Washing and dressing fast, thinking that I am the last one, I…
Continue readingSo what have I learnt today? I’ve know for a while that one of my personality traits is that I find dishonesty very uncomfortable, and that if someone says they are going to something, I damn well expect them do…
Continue readingI’m Just Asking Day 8. 25 July 2004 Sunday. Our first day off, and a lie-in till the late hour of 7:25. When we do wake and rise into the day, breakfast feels strangely wrong. Served at a table, in…
Continue readingMy new computer was ‘supposed’ to have been delivered today between the hours of 5 and 9 pm. I get home, thanks to heavy traffic, minutes after 5 pm and have been in ever since. At about 20:30 hours I…
Continue readingYour order has been dispatched as of (dd/mm/yyyy) 1/6/2005. Estimated Delivery date: 03/06/2005 Yayy! That’s Friday! Maybe I could have it by the weekend!!
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