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Time of Grace
A Knight’s Tale on Goodreads!
The Leaving
The Captain and Claire
on Smashwords
Author Archives: Gabriella West
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
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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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An Aside: Louis CK on Donald Trump
“Trump is a messed-up guy with a hole in his heart that he tries to fill with money and attention. He can never ever have enough of either and he’ll never stop trying. He’s sick. Which makes him really really … Continue reading
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Tagged Louis CK, News, politics, presidential election 2016, Trump, voting
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Elsie Street Will Be Deal of the Day on ARe!
All Romance eBooks is an ebook platform focused on, well, romance, and to my surprise my latest novel, Elsie Street, has done quite well there as opposed to on the bigger stores like Apple and Barnes & Noble. So I was … Continue reading
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Tagged All Romance eBooks, Daily Deal, Elsie Street, LGBT romance, promotion
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Review: Lust & Wonder, A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Oscar Wilde once famously said that all women become like their mothers; that’s their tragedy. He added, “No man does. That’s his.” Wilde was implying that all men become like their fathers. The fact is, the last book I read … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse & Recovery, LGBT, Reviews
Tagged anxiety, augusten burroughs, borderline personality disorder, dry, gay men, lust and wonder, memoir, PTSD, relationships, running with scissors
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Year of the Fire Monkey
So, the upcoming Chinese New Year is the Year of the Fire Monkey. For those who don’t know, each year is named after a particular animal and falls only every 12 years. Looking back on my Monkey years, I was … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese New Year, Elsie Street, Free, LGBT romance, mailing list, Nat Russo, relationships, The Leaving, The Pull of Yesterday
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Predicted Golden Globe Winners
Originally posted on L.R. Albright:
Best Picture – Drama Spotlight Carol Mad Max: Fury Road Room The Revenant It seems that Spotlight is the front-runner this season, though in my eyes, it’s a weak one. It’s possible that any of the…
New Year; A Look Back at Reading
Well, it’s January 1, and last year was so busy with both writing and editing work that I didn’t get to tend to this blog as much as I should have. So here’s a little recap. Thinking back to the … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse & Recovery, LGBT, Reviews, Writing
Tagged 2015, cutting, ebooks, great American novel, Hanya Yanagihara, intimacy, Kindle, Oliver Sacks, pain, Peter Hujar, reading, sex, sexual abuse, sexuality, suicide, survival, trauma
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Elsie Street Goes Wide
Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. I’m battling toothache, which is, um, what happens when you neglect your teeth for a long time… 😦 Indie authors call it “going wide” when you release your book outside the KDP Select platform. … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, San Francisco, Self-publishing, Writing
Tagged David Fredrickson, Elsie Street, free promo, gay romance, KU, love, preorder, san francisco story, Smashwords, World AIDS Day
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Black Mass: A Review
There was a time when I was obsessed with movies, going to the cinema about three times a week. This love of mine has mellowed over the years to the point where I just see a film on Demand now … Continue reading
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