A CONVERSATION with Turner

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Were you nervous about writing the book?

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“OMG, yes! Nervous about failing the challenge I had given myself and sharing the most intimate and emotional parts of my life. This last one was really hard!”

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You were very open and vulnerable in this book. Was that hard?

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“Yes and no, but mostly yes. Giving life to my inner thoughts as characters with voices in the book helped enormously. It gave me a way to express various struggles I experienced during the times I write about, but it also allowed me to poke fun at myself during the writing.”

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How does it feel to see your life story in print?

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“Mostly scary, but with great satisfaction that I’ve come out of those times with my life intact and that I was able to articulate in words, for others to read, what that life was like.”

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If you could go back and change your dating decisions, would you change anything?

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“I forced too many situations when I shouldn’t have. My inner voices were right ninety percent of the time; however, I only listened to them twenty percent of the time.”

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What advice would you give someone who found themselves re-entering the dating scene after a long time out of it?

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“It’s easy to think that you’re ‘the problem’ when things don’t go the way you want or they go badly. You’re not the problem. Finding love is tricky business, but so is life in general.”

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What advice do you have for people currently on Venus?

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“Quoting from my book, ‘Love isn’t something you find; it’s something that finds you.’”