Colin Turner

Book Cover

Since my previous post touched on the subject of my book covers, I’d like to share the latest. It was a challenge, at first, to imagine how to bring it to life. The solution was so amazingly simple that I’m still surprised that it took me so long to see it. At the outset, IContinue reading “Book Cover”

Community Standards (revisited)

It must be my obsessive personality. That’s why I had trouble accepting my Facebook ad. We’re all on the mental health spectrum, I believe, and each of us has our quirks. I had tried to promote my website on Facebook by boosting a post about it. The featured image turned out to be a paintingContinue reading “Community Standards (revisited)”

Confidence

Lisa recently told me that I need to have more confidence. One goal of our website is to generate sales, after all. It’s important to promote my work continually. That’s undeniable. I’ve written three novels, two of which are available on my bookshelf. The third has yet to be published. All are literary renderings ofContinue reading “Confidence”

Regret

I once had a sweet little studio In Grants Pass, Oregon. It was on the upper floor of the house where I lived. In it, I drew meticulous drawings (so painstaking, in fact, that I finished very few). A bout of nostalgia made me reflect on that work today. I spent a couple of hoursContinue reading “Regret”

Equinox

Today, September twenty-second, is the autumnal equinox. Fall has officially started as of 6:31 AM in the western United States. The sun is sitting over the earth’s equator. Day and night are roughly equal. It’s a good reminder that our planet is still revolving on a tilted axis. We circle the sun once a yearContinue reading “Equinox”

Publishing

I’ve been through it twice before but getting rejected by the publishing world hasn’t gotten any easier. My first two novels were produced independently as a consequence. “Independently” is a better way of saying that I paid to have them done myself. “Vanity publishing” is a harsher description. Regardless, I had to work outside ofContinue reading “Publishing”

Community Standards

So, I have a new website and I’m thinking that I should promote it. Facebook seems like a good place to start. There’s already a page for my novel, The Sketchbook: https://www.facebook.com/dcmorrister. Why not use it run an ad to get the word out about colinturnerswork.com? I post the link to the gallery and itContinue reading “Community Standards”

A Personal Note

I gave up . . . on a gallery career shortly after the turn of the twenty-first century. Was it a solo show that winter that did it? How could a complex relationship with a subject have altered my plans? Why compose stories when I was trained as a painter? The limitations of art areContinue reading “A Personal Note”