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Author Archives: Gabriella West
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,200 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading
Here’s how Seth Rogen and James Franco responded to today’s release of ‘The Interview’
Sony gave everybody a belated Merry Christmas by releasing ‘The Interview’ to a couple hundred independent theaters and widely online. Now hopefully Comcast will step up to the plate as well. They should. Happy Holidays, everyone!
Posted in News
Tagged Comcast, Happy Holidays, Hollywood, James Franco, Seth Rogen, Sony, the Interview
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You Can’t See The Interview, But I Did
Just bizarre! Since the new James Franco-Seth Rogen movie The Interview has been CANCELED—which I find outrageous—due to North Korea’s breathing down the neck of the studio, Sony, here is at least a review of the movie from “Time.” What … Continue reading
Posted in creativity and its discontents, Reviews
Tagged canceled, Hollywood, James Franco, Sony, the Interview, Time
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Review: The Goldfinch
Ah, The Goldfinch… This has to be one of the books I waited the longest to read. Got it on my Kindle when it first came out, was a bit put off by the hype, started plowing into the initial … Continue reading
The Amazing Life of Daniel Defoe
A fascinating piece about Daniel Defoe…who was actually pilloried at one point in his long and tumultuous life. Just reading the list of his pen names gives a great sense of the man. I’d like to read “Journal of the … Continue reading
November seems like a good month for a promotion, so with that in mind my recently published memoir It’s Not You, It’s Me will be free for three days starting tomorrow. (Nov. 10–12) And just so it won’t be lonely, … Continue reading
Ebola…Now a Global Crisis
I’ve been following the course of the Ebola outbreak with increasing dread. The Ebola virus was discovered in 1976 but never spread outside remote African villages till the latest outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, where the disease is … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Personal
Tagged cdc, ebola, ebola virus, global crisis, medicins sans frontieres, outbreak, teresa ramos, Thomas Duncan
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Singing a Happy iTune
Technology is a funny thing. I’ve always been one to be way behind the curve, and although I have always used Macs at home for working and writing, they are never the fresh and new models but reliable old workhorses. … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, Personal, Self-publishing, Writing
Tagged Apple, bisexual, Dorothy Richardson, Free, iOS 8, It's Not You It's Me, iTunes, Kindle, lesbian studies, memoir, queer, Smashwords, Steve Jobs
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Now on Pre-order: It’s Not You, It’s Me
Just a note to say that my 14,000 -word memoir, “It’s Not You, It’s Me,” is on pre-order right now at Amazon and will be released September 21! I wrote this memoir about two years after a devastating breakup with … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, Personal, Self-publishing, Writing
Tagged Amazon, breakups, Ireland, It's Not You It's Me, lesbian relationships, memoir, preorder, queer community, relationships, San Francisco
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Why you should or should not self-publish your book…
Author Shannon Yarbrough, who’s been both self- and traditionally published, shares some heartfelt thoughts on the self-publishing scene.
Posted in Self-publishing, Writing
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Gabriella West 