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Aderiu: Jan 7, 2007

Nome Real: Thomas Shepherd
Acerca de Mim: I was born in 1973 and grew up in Lowestoft, Suffolk before moving to Cheshire to study a degree in Creative Arts. Having worked as an electronic production editor for science and academic publishers in Oxford, I now work as a Web Designer for a top modern university. I live in Oxfordshire with my wife, Emma, our six cats, four chickens and two bunnies. My favourite authors are Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, Susan Cooper and David Almond.

I can’t remember a time when I haven’t created stories, first in my head, and then, as soon as I could write, on paper. At the age of nine I was given a toy theatre and wrote an epic drama called Rome which I performed for my family and friends on long Sunday afternoons. A version of the play won me first prize in a school ‘tall story’ competition, and a second – not quite so epic – play made its way in my first attempts at a novel. I have recently had coaching for mild aspergers, and looking back, I think that the ‘friends’ I found in my stories were easier to be with than real people.

In 1989 I was highly commended in the WHSmiths Young Writers’ Competition with my short story, Gold, and in 1991 I began writing screenplays, including a new children’s television series, Dreamscholars, which received some initial interest from the makers of ITV’s Press Gang.

Whilst at university I co-edited and contributed to Moments of Cragg Vale, an anthology of short stories and poetry, and in 1993, Flat East, a poem about the landscape of East Anglia was selected for publication in Valleys of Thought, an anthology of poems by local writers.

In 1995, a project proposal and pilot script for Riverhouse was highly commended in the Meridian Broadcasting Television Ideas Competition at the Southampton University Writers’ Conference. This led to me writing a youth drama series Eurojournal, based on my own experiences studying French at Eurocentre La Rochelle. The series was to be ground-breaking in its style, with the use of rapid scene changes acting almost as metaphors for the advancement of the story – a style which has developed into my novel-writing style.

I have Icelandic family, and in 2001 made the first of three visits to their country, and I knew from the very beginning that with a country so rich in myth and folklore and with an environment unlike anything I had ever seen, I had to write a story set there. The End of All Worlds is that story – begun in August 2001 only to be halted on 21 October for one and a half years after the family home burnt down. It took six years to write and over two years of rewrites and edits to complete.
Localização: Oxfordshire
Página inicial: http://shepline.com
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Actualmente Lendo: Cake: A Slice of History
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Arden Shakespeare) por William Shakespeare
Illustrator's Guide to Law and Business Practice por Association of Illustrators
The Key to Flambards por Linda Newbery
Flora Thompson's Country: The Real Villages and Towns of "Lark Rise to Candleford" por David Watts
You Can Count on Brownies (Windmill Little Library) por Robert and Pam Kraus
The Regeneration trilogy por Pat Barker
Printing Puffin Picture Book No 70 por Harold Curwen
Concise Foraging Guide (The Wildlife Trusts) por Tiffany Francis-Baker
Indian Diary, 1952-53 por Edward Ardizzone
Pandora: An immersive and gripping historical novel set in Georgian London por Susan Stokes-Chapman
Clarice Cliff: The Art of Bizarre : A Definitive Centenary Celebration por Leonard Griffin
Treacle Walker
The Man Who Died Twice (The Thursday Murder Club Book 2) por Richard Osman
Pages & Co.: The Book Smugglers por Anna James
Are We Having Fun Yet? por Lucy Mangan
Christmas Carols for Cats por Julie & John Hope
Nursery Rhymes for Cats por Julie Hope
Bookshop Tours of Britain por Louise Boland
A Storm of Sisters: Bring the magic home with the bestselling Pinch of Magic Adventures (A Pinch of Magic Adventure) por Michelle Harrison
A Promise of Ankles (44 Scotland Street) por Alexander McCall Smith
Haunted House por Jan Pienkowski
A Town Like Alice por Nevil Shute
Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain por Alice Roberts
The Unreal and the Real Volume 1: Volume 1: Where on Earth (Unreal & the Real Vol 1) por Ursula K. Le Guin
The Unreal and the Real Volume 2: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin: Outer Space & Inner Lands por Ursula K. Le Guin
Love in the Time of Bertie por Alexander McCall Smith
The Sweet Remnants of Summer (Isabel Dalhousie Novels) por Alexander McCall Smith
Witch: Unleashed. Untamed. Unapologetic. por Lisa Lister
Favoritos Locais: Livrarias: Blackwell's Oxford