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Author Archives: Gabriella West
A Hell of a Year
2016 has been a hell of a year. It feels too soon to do a retrospective, but it’s been the kind of year where I uploaded a picture of a Facebook friend’s beautiful young dog running through some snowy woods … Continue reading
About last night…
Wow. A mixture of feelings here, but one predominates. After watching the increasingly grim CNN election footage for a number of hours and realizing that Hillary Clinton was not going to win, I went on Facebook and wrote, “I personally … Continue reading
Posted in News, Personal
Tagged Bill Maher, cnn, David Fredrickson, donald trump, Facebook, garrison keillor, grief, Hillary Clinton, hope, michael moore, presidential election 2016, spiritual, trauma, traumatic events
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Review: Paul McCartney, The Life by Philip Norman
Paul McCartney, The Life. Philip Norman. Kindle Edition, 2016, $15.99 I loved Philip Norman’s revealing biography of John Lennon. This hefty volume doesn’t quite match up, but that may not be Norman’s fault. McCartney has lived 36 years longer than … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged babycham night, biography, control, George Harrison, Heather Mills, Jane Asher, John Lennon, loss, paul mccartney, philip norman, review, the beatles
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This Is The Modern Publishing Business
Trenchant insights on the exploitative tendencies of the “traditional” publishing industry from a successful indie writer…
Posted in Writing
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Summer in California: Fire and Fog
It’s what used to be called high summer, but here in San Francisco we are socked in by heavy fog. The pattern of terrible California wildfires also continues. Here is a photo by Mike Blake of an emu running … Continue reading
Posted in News, Personal
Tagged Emu, Fire, Fog, Hillary Clinton, Optimism, presidential election 2016, summer in California, Trump, wildfires
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A Happy Fourth…
I wanted to wish everyone out there in the US a happy Fourth of July! The weather is always chilly and foggy here in San Francisco. At night in our neighborhood, the air is filled with the sound of homemade rockets … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, News, Personal, San Francisco, Self-publishing, Writing
Tagged Bill Maher, Brexit, clare ashton, connecting the dots, Elsie Street, Fourth of July, Free, Hillary Clinton, Kate Genet, Rainbow Shelf, Shannon Yarbrough, Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale, The Great British Baking Show, The Pull of Yesterday
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Orlando, a week later
I woke up last Sunday morning to news of the Orlando LGBT club massacre on Twitter. It was a terrible moment. The first pieces of news said that 20 people were dead, which was unbelievable enough. I believe the last … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, News
Tagged gun control, LGBT, mass shooting, Orlando, Pride Month, Pulse
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Elsie Street Sequel Now on Preorder!
I’ve been busy writing this spring. The full-length sequel to Elsie Street, The Pull of Yesterday, is now available for preorder at Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo. It will be released on those platforms on June 5. Meanwhile, … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, News, San Francisco, Self-publishing, Writing
Tagged 5-star review, Elsie Street, Free, gay romance, Google play, LGBT romance, preorder, The Pull of Yesterday
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Time of Grace on Promo to Mark Easter 1916 Centennial
When I started writing the book that became Time of Grace in 1996, I really gave little thought to the Easter Rising of 1916 being almost 100 years old. After all, as a child in Dublin in the 1970s, I knew an elderly … Continue reading
Posted in News, Writing
Tagged centennial, Easter, Easter Rising, Kindle promo, resurgence, spring, time of grace
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Smashwords Read an Ebook Week Promo Runs Through Saturday
It’s that time of year again. Smashwords has its sitewide promotion, Read an Ebook Week, running through Saturday, March 12. It’s a great opportunity to pick up a multitude of ebooks at low cost using the in-store coupons SW provides. … Continue reading
Posted in News, Self-publishing, Writing
Tagged connecting the dots, promotion, Read an Ebook Week, Smashwords
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Gabriella West 