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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My weekend back home…

Okay, so I might only have lived there for the first three months of my life, but there has to be something in the water (and I’m not just talking the reasons why they bottle it and sell it all…

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The screenplay v. The novel

In an interesting discussion with soulsong last night I worked out what was wrong with the end of chapter one. A couple of people have now read it and found there to be an undeniable conclusion to the chapter and…

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The screenplay v. The novel

In an interesting discussion with soulsong last night I worked out what was wrong with the end of chapter one. A couple of people have now read it and found there to be an undeniable conclusion to the chapter and…

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Journal Haiku

LiveJournal Haiku! Your name: shepline Your haiku: on my way to therussian quarter of tallinnthis morning i saw Username: Created by Grahame

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Author meme

Taken from cogenthought: Take these 10 authors, and remove the ones not on your bookshelf, and add ones that are. Keep the list at 10. Her list Joyce Carol Oates John Updike Philip K. Dick Ivan Turgenev Dave Eggers Marcel…

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Plotlines

I’m looking at the beginnings of chapter two, like I originally wrote it – most of it is good stuff but I’m still not sure where I’m going … then… Helen is with Ben and Hanna in the roadside cafe….

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Plotlines

I’m looking at the beginnings of chapter two, like I originally wrote it – most of it is good stuff but I’m still not sure where I’m going … then… Helen is with Ben and Hanna in the roadside cafe….

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Note to Self: Oxfordwriters?

This post has stemmed from an IM conversation with rachel2205, and a discussion we were having about Yorkwriters and writers’ groups in general. They can be good fun. I remember from when I was at uni, but I need to…

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Visions

On my way into work through the country lanes of Oxfordshire this morning I saw a motorcyclist coming in the opposite direction. Nothing strange about that, you might think. Except that for a moment there I didn’t see a motorcyclist……

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Spitting is a disgusting habit

Between helping lekythen out with her website and coaxing a dying computer back to life after a system crash, I did get many many pages done to my novel last night. I’m now within spitting distance of the end of…

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Spitting is a disgusting habit

Between helping lekythen out with her website and coaxing a dying computer back to life after a system crash, I did get many many pages done to my novel last night. I’m now within spitting distance of the end of…

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Is this good?

shepline’s Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 9 Average number of words per sentence: 20.57 Average number of syllables per word: 1.44 Total words in sample: 1440 Analyze your journal! Username: Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern

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