indie – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:54:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg indie – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 Love my favourite #indie bookshop. Now to brew the pot of tea, settle back, and enjoy… #indiebookstores #personaltouch #shoplocal #philippullman #labellesauvage #thebookofdust #books https://shepline.com/2017/10/19/love-my-favourite-indie-bookshop-now-to-brew-the-pot-of-tea-settle-back-and-enjoy-indiebookstores-personaltouch-shoplocal-philippullman-labellesauvage-thebookofdust-books/ https://shepline.com/2017/10/19/love-my-favourite-indie-bookshop-now-to-brew-the-pot-of-tea-settle-back-and-enjoy-indiebookstores-personaltouch-shoplocal-philippullman-labellesauvage-thebookofdust-books/#respond Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:37:17 +0000 http://shepline.com/2017/10/19/love-my-favourite-indie-bookshop-now-to-brew-the-pot-of-tea-settle-back-and-enjoy-indiebookstores-personaltouch-shoplocal-philippullman-labellesauvage-thebookofdust-books/ Love my favourite #indie bookshop. Now to brew the pot of tea, settle back, and enjoy... #indiebookstores #personaltouch #shoplocal #philippullman #labellesauvage #thebookofdust #books

Love my favourite #indie bookshop. Now to brew the pot of tea, settle back, and enjoy… #indiebookstores #personaltouch #shoplocal #philippullman #labellesauvage #thebookofdust #books

]]> https://shepline.com/2017/10/19/love-my-favourite-indie-bookshop-now-to-brew-the-pot-of-tea-settle-back-and-enjoy-indiebookstores-personaltouch-shoplocal-philippullman-labellesauvage-thebookofdust-books/feed/ 0 The Agony and the Ecstasy https://shepline.com/2015/01/16/the-agony-and-the-ecstasy/ https://shepline.com/2015/01/16/the-agony-and-the-ecstasy/#respond Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:30:24 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=6470 Mr Tumnal has now been out in the real world for a month and and a half, and its already out sold my debut novel by this point in the publishing cycle, and its starting to gather up a number of 5-star reviews.

Five star reviews! The joy, the ecstasy of it! People actually *like* my story…

Very Very Clever, Very Different – I Want To Read More!

Really really loved the story (very memorable, and very different) – certainly kept me gripped, and the characters were well rounded, fully formed and interesting

the dark, mystical elements which I have missed since childhood classics from writers like Susan Cooper and Alan Garner … this is a book in the same genre but for adults, which is refreshing

I was sad to have finished it

A great read that hooked me and I couldn’t put it down

instantly grabbing. You’re lured into two separate worlds between Lewis and Louis, and the plot keeps moving at a comfortable pace

You can read the reviews in full – have you read it yet? I’d love to hear what you think it too!

But whilst I revel in people enjoying my story of a man who marries his imaginary friend, I also have the agony of discovering that I released my story with some lingering typos. I hasten to add – and this is from my readers too – that none of the typos hinder the enjoyment of the story but they are annoying and frustrating nonetheless. It’s the pain of the Indie Author: even with an editor, I am just one man at war with words. I’ve since corrected a good number of them and notified Amazon. Hopefully anyone who has downloaded the Kindle version will soon get an opportunity to update their edition, whilst owners of the paperback edition will have rare first editions.

Mr Tumnal is available as both a paperback and an eBook for Kindle.

Mr Tumnal

Shepherd, T E (Cover illustration by Silviu Sadoschi)
Publication date: May 2012
Ebook ISBN 978 0 9571756 6 2 (£2.99) Amazon UK | Amazon.com
Paperback ISBN 978 0 9571756 7 9 (£8.99) Amazon UK | Amazon.com

]]> https://shepline.com/2015/01/16/the-agony-and-the-ecstasy/feed/ 0 The New Inklings https://shepline.com/2014/10/25/the-new-inklings/ https://shepline.com/2014/10/25/the-new-inklings/#respond Sat, 25 Oct 2014 17:38:20 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=6381 Last Saturday we visited the brilliant 26 Characters exhibition at Oxford’s Story Museum. This morning I was reading some of the accompanying book, and by chance I got to the bit where children’s author Frances Hardinge talks about why she chose The Scarlet Pimpernel as her favourite. In reading this I discovered that she was childhood friends of Rhiannon Lassiter.

Now I am friends/colleagues/fellow-author to Rhiannon, who also knows Michelle Harrison of 13 Treasures  fame and who worked at OUP at the same time as myself, and they both know Luisa Plaja, who I first met when we were both critiquing each other’s work on the WriteWords website.

Frances Hardinge’s books sounded interesting so, whilst in Bicester buying the meat and veg, I made use of our local independent bookseller, and picked up a copy of Frances’ Cuckoo Song, which sounds good albeit possibly scary as hell (I’m a wuss!).

63954_10152750891960630_8282827009920638743_nI love how, in some small way (and I do still feel a bit like I’m not a proper author because of my Indie status – I know, rediculous…), I am possibly part of, or on the cusp of some small group of writers that no each other.

It does just go to show what a small world this writing/author world is!

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