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 moreInspired by yesterday’s visit to Bath – and partly due to a desire to do justice to the photos I took of that (very) fair town I bought myself a new colour printer which is printing out absolutely stunning prints….
Continue reading…with Bath! This is a beautiful place. It’s relaxing, it’s nice, and it’s friendly. I want to move here this instant (but I can’t) … one day though, one day. (the royal crescent) (and the royal circus) But to get…
Continue reading(or the house, foil wrapped and clad…) From across the garden, down near to the garage, this is southfacing. You can see the lounge which will be tiled, and the main house which will be thatched… …and here, the main…
Continue readingI’ll try and make it two pages tonight (those words are really coming now). I phoned my aunt in Iceland tonight – apart from the whole wishing easter happiness to the family, it did have a serious point of checking…
Continue readingDespite not putting the light out last night till 1 o’clock this morning, and waking up before my alarm went off at six-thirty I am bursting with joy, happiness and awakefulness. I think it’s partly to do with wth gorgeous…
Continue readingHe replaces the magazine on the bedside cabinet and slowly lets his fingers throw the switch on the lamp. The room sinks into Icelandic summer darkness – a washed-out colourless light. Lying on his side he curls his legs up…
Continue readingHe replaces the magazine on the bedside cabinet and slowly lets his fingers throw the switch on the lamp. The room sinks into Icelandic summer darkness – a washed-out colourless light. Lying on his side he curls his legs up…
Continue readingFrom Iceland Review Edward Weinman writes the final word on Reykjavik When I tell people that I live in Iceland, they look at me as if I have just stepped off a silver spaceship having travelled to earth from the…
Continue readingOkay, so I have to wait till the end of June, but I’ve just found out that I can get a laptop for free. I don’t know what spec it is (but it’ll be decent I can guarantee), it will…
Continue readingOkay, so I have to wait till the end of June, but I’ve just found out that I can get a laptop for free. I don’t know what spec it is (but it’ll be decent I can guarantee), it will…
Continue readingBen climbs into his bed in the small guestroom with the eye-level windows in the basement floor of his aunt and uncle’s Reykjavik house. He lies against the pillows staring back across the room at the atmosphic black and white…
Continue readingBen climbs into his bed in the small guestroom with the eye-level windows in the basement floor of his aunt and uncle’s Reykjavik house. He lies against the pillows staring back across the room at the atmosphic black and white…
Continue readingAnd I don’t just mean the weather 🙂 The usual gang weren’t around for lunch today, so for half my hour I deserted the building for a wooden bench in the local sun trap (conveniently located in the middle of…
Continue readingDumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. “It is time,” he said, “for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you…
Continue readingI know I’ve been advising soulsong that it doesn’t matter what you write as you long get the gist of story down there that you can go back to look at, mull over and tweak once you’ve finished it, and…
Continue readingYup! Now all my fellow friends can click on the amazon links within shepline.com and by there stuff from there – and in doing so, earn me some lovely money!! I’ll do my best to recommend books, CDs, DVDs and…
Continue readingMy writing is really flowing together and I’m getting back into the heads of Helen and Ben and Gerður. Where I’m slipping up is with what happens exactly where…? I was on fire writing this fantastic scene with Helen and…
Continue reading…okay, so it’s not. There’s nothing I would like better than to sit down with a steaming cup of hot chocolate, a the ball of fresh ice cream circling on the surface slowly melting in swirls of delicious creaminess, firing…
Continue readingSaw this on rachel2205‘s journal, and thought that I just had share… I will expect a great deal of you but hope to give the same amount back. I will be disappointed if you don’t do what I think is…
Continue readingI have a situation in my novel Blood and Fire, where the threat to the world comes from a bunch of scientists and engineers who have discovered a way to harness energy from the world of the gods to power…
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