Mr Tumnal

Everyone has an idea of their ideal family. Not everyone’s become real

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About me

Derbyshire born. Suffolk bred. Lives in the shires.

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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  The Imaginary Wife

The Imaginary Wife

How would you feel if you discovered you were the imaginary creation of your best friend?

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Comment and Critique please…

A difficult this week. With the exception of week two we have had the same model – Patty – for every session. Tonight it was the return of week two’s flabby man with the Margaret Thatcher nose. Actually as I…

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Passing the 10,000 word mark…

…in Chapter Three. My aim is to be working on chapter four come December. My realistic aim is to finish chapter three (and the halfway point in the book) by the end of the year. It’s going well. I have…

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Pepper, he likes fireworks (not)

It’s fizzing and popping outside, the sky lit with explosions of colours. Pepper is spending a lot of time hiding under my desk, and now that I’ve settled on the sofa he is snuggling close. Aww, poor Pepper…

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Last post [additional]

Where is my muse? I know I left it around here suddenly. I had full control of it yesterday, but this evening, I just can’t find it. Let’s crank up the volume of Vanilla Ninja and see if it returns…

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I am not attempting NaNoWriMo

I do however have my own objectives concerning how much I want to write in November. I also would like to send my good wishes to my friends who are attempting NaNoWriMo. nevers and mosskat55, I know for two that…

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Three years ago today…

…it all ended for me, with writing Blood & Fire. That was Hallowe’en 2001, and an autumn hiatus of frantic writing wherein I wrote much of chapter one (since extended) and the seeds of chapter two. It was the autumn…

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Trick or Treat

Thank thee for those Romanian Joey’s I still had left over from my Hungarian holiday, in my fridge. My house is tucked away at the back end of the road, and Trick or Treatsers don’t usually find me. Tonight, shortly…

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