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 moreSkipping out of a meeting this afternoon, basically because I have just too many journals on my desk to get through to sit on uncomfortable meeting room chairs for an hour and a half. Still, I’ve come for air for…
Continue readingReading back on my last post, I feel the plot-strings tugging at my mind… elves are mischievous they are very naugthy humans have to take care when they meet elves because they are very clever and as the stories go…
Continue readingthe nature and look of Icelandic elves are very different to the Lord of the Rings type of trolls/elves — the elves are small, very good looking they are wealthy compared to the average Icelander they have beautiful homes –…
Continue reading…a night of stumbling but successful creativity. Like Ben and his fumbling relationship with Hannah, I find myself passing 148 pages and the 40,000 word mark. And thanks to Karin, Signý, Tom, Kathy, and a wee glass of 12 year…
Continue readingYup, you heard it correctly, I’m moving onto my sixth manager in Blackwells (now that I’m in my third department)… So that’s more managers than I’ve had years in the company?!! Okay, to be fair three of them were simultaneously,…
Continue readingSpurred on by siren_songs and nevers, I think I may have a try at this 48-hour Zine Challenge thingy that teawoodart has set up. I’ve never done a *zine* before, but the concept sounds similar to things that I used…
Continue readingYup. It’s May. Which means my birfdy must be approaching. What’s more it’s a Saturday – Saturday 22 May (don’t worry I’m not saying this to ferrit out cards and pressies and the like ‘cos if you really wanted to…
Continue reading1.Go into your LJ’s archives. 2.Find your 23rd post (or closest to). 3.Find the fifth sentence (or closest to). 4.Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions. “Then this morning, I came down to find…
Continue readingBit of a traumatic episode of The Archers,
Continue readingI need an icon for when I’m making witty/sarcastic/funny comments/posts. If you don’t believe me then think on this: why is it I don’t make any witty/sacastic/funny comments…?!!! *grins* So here’s the challenge. Make me an icon that fits that…
Continue readingI have a new journal – the International Wound Journal, and it’s being a freeking nightmare! I only got handed this on Tuesday, the typesetters have been a nightmare about it, and today everywhere I turn I’m seeing questions about…
Continue readingIn an email from Helen, siren_songs mentioned the above entitled competition, being run by Durham County Council. I haven’t entered a writing competition in years, actually not since I came second in the Meridian TV television ideas contest at the…
Continue readingIt’ll run and run and run…! A month or so ago I posted on the curiousness of the way that search engines work and the way that people use them. Well the world wide web definitately works in mysterious ways,…
Continue readingAnyone know what happened to blackberrylust? Is she still around? Has she switched journals? I know she was taking a break from lj – but it’s been a while…
Continue readingWell it happened again. Driving home from work today — out of rain clouds and then past lush hedgerows, leafy trees and fields of rape coloured in that intense light that you get when you have brilliant sun on countryside…
Continue readingCurrently listening to a Jeanette Winterson special (siren_songs are you listening to this? If not, you better get onto BBC Listen Again…) – and it’s fascinating to hear her talk of the process of writing. In particular, she was talking…
Continue reading“The Angels reappear and Faustus is almost persuaded to repent. The Devil and Beelzebub come up from Hell and make him keep his pact. Faustus is shown the seven deadly sins. Pride, covetousness, envy, wrath, gluttony, sloth, lechery…” …and this…
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