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 moreWell, my friends, are you up to anything exciting this weekend? Me? Not really, I want to try finish off running the film though my *newly created* pin-hole camera (á la veeb), and I of course want to write more…
Continue readingSo, say you were meeting a new person–blind date, new friend, who knows. And you wanted them to have some idea of what kind of person you are, and who you are. But you can’t actually tell them in so…
Continue readingWell, in the space of two days I have booked two holidays… Yayy!! ^__^ On the 15 June I’ll be descending once more on Iceland for my 10 days in and around Iceland, and then almost (but not quite) a…
Continue readingHave a very Happy Birthday Jo! I must say, you’ve picked a good day for it – the sun is golden, the bulbs are flowering, Spring is just around the corner… (say hello to Norwich for me…)
Continue reading…and now I understand the whole securities business of it. You give your router/network a unique name and hide it from view. Even if a freeloader/hacker knows you have a wireless network, they can’t see it, and they even if…
Continue readingWell, I’m posting this from my new wireless network, which I think I now have set up, although things on the net do seem to be behaving a little oddly. I think I may to beg some assistance from someone…
Continue readingcurrently writing: chapter two (of six) current page: 111 today’s wordcount: 461 current total: 30,027
Continue readingWriting can be a solitary business (you know the old cliché of the writer in his garrett at the top of some ricketty old appartment block…), but I’ve realised that the one thing I really need to write is too…
Continue readingThis is the problem from finding oneself at the zenith of creativity between the hours of 10pm and midnight, Sunday through Friday – when the alarm goes off at six you really don’t want to have to get up. And…
Continue readingBen, Ben, Ben, will you just stop worrying about your sister – look there it is – her pack is still there, she hasn’t gone off into the mountains alone again. Just relax, chill out…
Continue readingOkay, lets admit it shall we. In previous weeks, I’ve actually been managing to swim thirty lengths in more like thirty-five minutes – but today, I managed them in (reasonably) elegant strokes in the thirty minutes. 🙂 Swimming has also…
Continue readingFor the fourth day now, I am suffering an annoying pain in my right side located in the neck and head area. I think I must moved/slept awkwardly on Thursday night, and Friday and Saturday were particularly bad when moving…
Continue readingUpon returning from London Town, I had an encouraging email response from siren_songs as regards chapter one (the first 20,000 words) of Blood & Fire. I think one of the things I find most encouraging about it, that not only…
Continue readingI guess it all started yesterday. At 8pm I rolled up at Jo’s birthday party – as I’d predicted to myself I was the first to arrive – which is good for me, because I find it easier mix with…
Continue readingIt’s not yet fully launched (do to lj login problems), but, and with thanks to the genius that is tinyjo my journal and it’s friends, and archive pages now has a brand, spanking, new, clean look. And now, time, me…
Continue readingcurrently writing: chapter two (of six) current page: 110 today’s wordcount: 469 current total: 29,566
Continue readingAnd so, today, this journal, and the pages within reaches it’s first birthday! A year ago on 12 February 2003, I plucked up courage, and on seeing this
Continue readingcurrently writing: chapter two (of six) current page: 108 today’s wordcount: 693 current total: 29,097
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