Author Archives: Gabriella West

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About Gabriella West

Author of LGBT historical fiction and contemporary queer romance. Copyeditor/proofreader.

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.

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Review: Getting Rooted in New Zealand

This has been such a heavy month. We lost Robin Williams, there was a sizeable earthquake in Napa that had many of us waking at 3.20am wondering if it was “the big one,” and it doesn’t look good for Joan … Continue reading →

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‘Dorothy Richardson: A Close Reading’ Is Free Through Monday

My short literary study of modernist writer Dorothy Richardson came out as an ebook in May, and I’m happy to announce that it is free (regularly $2.99) on Amazon Kindle through Monday, August 11, just in time for grad students and … Continue reading →

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Dublin Writer’s Museum.

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I am not one for clichéd tourist destinations, always having preferred to browse the shelves of Shakespeare and Co in Paris rather than visit the Eiffel Tower.  I am proud to say I have never been…

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Smashwords Summer/Winter sale

Smashwords‘ Summer/Winter sale (July 1-31) has been underway for awhile now. I wanted to mention that three of my ebooks are enrolled in the promotion. Two (Time of Grace and Connecting the Dots) are discounted and one (Night Train to … Continue reading →

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365 of Me: 185/181

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365 of Me: 176/190

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My friend Shannon Yarbrough has an amazing daily gardening blog on his author website. He takes exquisite picture of the flowers and plants in his garden in Missouri, particularly irises and lilies. I thought I would share. (I can never … Continue reading →

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Richard Yates (1926-1992), the author of Revolutionary Road and other novels, was a damaged man who produced beautiful, bleak books while he indulged his addictions and was in and out of mental hospitals due to frequent mental breakdowns (Yates was … Continue reading →

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Five Fascinating Facts about Thomas Hardy

As we usher in June, I decided to reblog this from the site Interesting Literature in honor of Thomas Hardy’s birthday today. He was an odd, elusive man, so perhaps it’s no surprise that he was a Gemini! As a … Continue reading →

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When I was an ardent young intellectual in the early ’90s, I took a class on Modernist Women Writers with the poet Kathleen Fraser at SFSU. One of our assignments was to do “a close reading” of our writer of … Continue reading →

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