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Author Archives: Gabriella West
The end is near (of the novel, not the world)
Originally posted on Midlife Bat Mitzvah:
I’ve been working on the first draft of a new novel for slightly more than a year. Progress has been in small steps punctuated by constant breaks: My halftime job at Golden Gate Audubon…
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Review: On the Move, A Life by Oliver Sacks
When I first got acquainted with the neurologist Oliver Sacks and his work, it was through Awakenings, both the book and the movie. I was a young woman then and Oliver Sacks was someone to look up to. He also … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, Reviews
Tagged addiction, Awakenings, cancer, gay men, healing, Jewish, LGBT, London, memoir, motorcycles, neurologist, New York, Oliver Sacks, On the Move, San Francisco, weightlifting
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KQED Forum Does an Hour on Self-Publishing
Michael Krasny, who hosts the Bay Area radio show Forum on KQED, did an hour on the changing world of self-publishing this week. I stumbled on to it a couple days later and was glad to be able to catch … Continue reading
Catch Time of Grace on Kindle Countdown This Weekend
Amazon offers a time-based promotional discount called the Kindle Countdown, which I’ve never yet used for any of my books. I decided to enroll Time of Grace this Friday through Sunday (May 8-10), so the novel will be available for … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, Self-publishing, Writing
Tagged Amazon, Easter Rising, ebook, Fussy Librarian, kindle countdown, promotion, time of grace
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Review: A Long Way from Paris
With the arrival of spring comes thoughts of greenery, young animals, travel, and so on. Not long ago, I happened to stumble on a memoir by an unfamiliar writer, E.C. Murray, called A Long Way from Paris and loaded it on my Kindle. … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Travel
Tagged 1980s, A Long Way from Paris, E.C. Corcoran, France, French, goats, language, memoir, paris, review, small press, spring
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Read an Ebook Week at Smashwords
Once again, Smashwords is holding their annual Read an Ebook Week promotion (March 1–7). I always find out about this at the very last moment and put a few of my books into the pile. This time, Time of Grace … Continue reading
The Year of the Sheep Starts Today…
Did you know that Chinese New Year starts today? It’s the Year of the Sheep (also called ram, or goat). Happens to be my own astrological sign, as well. I like it that creative, sensitive, and not-particularly-good-with-money people have their … Continue reading
Posted in News, Personal
Tagged Chinese New Year, Chinese zodiac, David Carr, Free, It's Not You It's Me, Smashwords, The Leaving, Year of the Sheep
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This Writing Life: Two Opinion Pieces
I was listening to the radio in the kitchen the other day, and the NPR announcer was talking about the search for the bones of the great Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. Cervantes is very famous … Continue reading
Posted in creativity and its discontents, Personal, Writing
Tagged Ann Bauer, Cervantes, dislocated, home, money issues, pauper, Salon, the writing life, time to write, unmarked grave
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Write or Wrong Part 7: Melinda Clayton can breathe just fine, thank you…
It’s been such a quiet January, so I wanted to kick things off here by reblogging one of the Write or Wrong posts on writer Shannon Yarbrough’s site. Write or Wrong is an excellent series where contemporary writers speak candidly … Continue reading
Posted in creativity and its discontents, Writing
Tagged Melinda Clayton, Shannon Yarbrough, Write or Wrong
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Gabriella West 