Books
Watch It Shine: Drawings, Watercolors, and Lyrics
El Paisano Press · September 25, 2026
Through 2026, every new Owen Temple single has arrived with an original watercolor painted by Owen himself. Watch It Shine collects those paintings and the drawings around them — alongside the lyrics they carry and personal essays on where the songs and pictures came from. Songs and pictures from the same source.
Some of it is online: the paintings that carried this year’s singles, each with its song, and You Are Here, the last section of the book.
Every copy ordered direct comes signed, and carries a digital download of the new album, Closer, Says Love, delivered on its October 23 release. Also available at shows, and to pre-order from Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.
If you want the record itself, it pairs with the book on signed vinyl or signed CD — both ship together the week of September 25, about a month before the album is out.
Songfarmer: Writing More and Better Songs
Songfarmer: Writing More and Better Songs is a practical guide to the craft of songwriting, co-written by Owen Temple and Gordy Quist. Drawing on decades of writing, performing, and collaborating with beginnners and Grammy-winning legends, the book offers tools and insights for songwriters at every level — from finding ideas to finishing songs to getting them out into the world.
You can read more about the book and use an app designed to help build habits at songfarmer.com.
Published in 2015 and available on Amazon and directly from the authors.
For the practice behind the book, see Songwriting.