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 moreOnce upon a lifetime The spirits of the dark Came to kill the beauty Of our world… Jessica sits at her table outside the bar, the sun blazing in a clear blue sky. Her toes slip out of her sandles,…
Continue reading*laughs* Well it seems that, from information gathered from Karin, my (almost) 17 year old Estonian friend (see Adventures in Estonia), that Vanilla Ninja are actually pretty popular and cool – and not just amongst teenage girls… Like oxfordslacker said…
Continue readingIt’s snowing! It’s a bloomin’ blizzard out there, and it’s settling!!!
Continue readingFor a shade under 700 quid I have bought my new oak flooring. Real wood engineered downstairs and laminate upstairs, it should be delivered sometime next week. Next comes the logistical nightmare of laying it. Hey, one does like a…
Continue readingAs everyone knows by now, the UK have entered a General Election campaign. I’m cancelling the papers. I’m retuning the radio. See you in four weeks. [Edit: It appears that I am now just 10 posts short of a 1,000…
Continue readingAs an ECQC of old I had free time. As an ECQC of The Now, I don’t. And it’s good. Sure my new responsibilities for print production are not in my job description, and in no way could they be…
Continue readingUpon arriving in work this morning after being off for two days, I found waiting for me, in addition to the Ecological Entomology articles, my dvd of Press Gang – Season Two, which I shall settle back and enjoy shortly……
Continue readingSign up to OneTel and say a final farewell to BT. OneTel have finally started offering cheap line rental in addition to their whizzy-cheap phone calls, which means I can finally say goodbye to Bl**dy Telecom. Go on, you know…
Continue readingThis week is turning out to be quite a week. So far so good, in that today I did pass my First Aid at Work refresher course, which will keep me going for another three years – but not without…
Continue readingIt seems Channel 4 are screening an adaptation of The Wizzard of Earthsea over the easter weekend. Now previously they did a brilliant Gulliver’s Travels and indeed their Alice Through The Looking Glass was good, but their Merlin was dreadful…
Continue readingNotes and oddities. Life is good. Busy but good. My novel continues and goes well, but slowly, I just have so little time these days. Working on print as well as online is good. I’m enjoying it. I’m positive too….
Continue readingPlantation Originally uploaded by shepline on 21 Mar ’05, 12.10pm PST. Stumbling into this small plantation of populars, in the mysteriousness of the early morning mist, I felt like I was in a scene from Indocine and that men would…
Continue readingShrouded in mist Originally uploaded by shepline on 21 Mar ’05, 12.10pm PST.
Continue readingDaffodils Originally uploaded by shepline on 21 Mar ’05, 12.10pm PST. The simplicity of the design. It works for me.
Continue readingQuietly woodland… Originally uploaded by shepline on 21 Mar ’05, 12.10pm PST.
Continue readingAmazon.com sent me an email today suggesting a book that I may want, and, indeed I do! The sequel to the excellent Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot : Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality…
Continue reading“There’s no visual effects in this movie,” Gunnarsson says. “We’re going back to pre-Jurassic Park filmmaking.” Though they will use prosthetics and makeup, he says, “it’s all being done with real actors and real action bound by the laws of…
Continue readingMove along there, there’s nothing to see… Eclectic links posted for my own needs when doing research. Grímsvatnagos Eruption 2004 http://www.raunvis.hi.is/~mtg/04gv/gv2004.htm http://www.vatnajokull.com/news.html Skaftafellsstofa Visitor Centre http://english.ust.is/Skaftafellnationalpark/
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Continue readingIn a recent post tinyjo gave us this handy (now abridged) motto: You just can’t rely on people to pick up the subtle signs you think you’re broadcasting so if they’re bugging you, say something. Do it politely, and be…
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