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Author Archives: Gabriella West
A Challenging New Year: Downbeat Trends for Indie Publishing
And so, 2020 starts out intense right out of the gate! But although our attention is drawn to a possible war brewing with Iran due to an impulsive act of political assassination by the hapless idiot acting as our president, … Continue reading
Happy Holidays…
Somehow, it’s mid-December. This year does feel especially Christmas-y, if only because the weather is decidedly wintry… and the sister of a school friend, whom I have not seen since I was twelve, volunteered to send me a Christmas pudding … Continue reading
Posted in Editing, Personal, Writing
Tagged backlist, breaks, Christmas, Christmas Pudding, Happy Holidays, novels, Smashwords End of Year Sale, writing, Year of the Rat
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Time of Grace Released in Audio Format!
I finished writing my lesbian historical novel Time of Grace 20 years ago, which is astonishing to me. Set at the time of the Easter Rising of 1916, it was published by a small press in Ireland, and subsequently released … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, News, Self-publishing
Tagged Amazon, Apple, Audible, audiobook, Easter Rising 1916, lesbian, LGBT historical, LGBT romance, time of grace
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Beto and Pete: A Tale of Two Articles
Originally posted on Gabriella West:
In this election season, good journalism is important. But what happens when “good journalism” comes up against people’s uncritical adoration of a candidate? Janet Malcolm around the time the book came out. We all know…
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Loma Prieta Memory: Reading Pinter by Candlelight
(Note: I lived through Loma Prieta in 1989, which is now, incredibly, 30 years ago. The first section of this essay was written in 1999, on the 10th anniversary of the earthquake.) I’d been in San Francisco for a little over a … Continue reading
Posted in News, Personal, Writing
Tagged earthquake, Loma Prieta, personal essay, San Francisco
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A Short Month, but an Exhausting One!
September was pretty exhausting! Due to a reshuffle at a magazine I work for, I was unexpectedly placed in a different role: copyediting rather than proofing. When I used to work for the Pacific Sun in San Rafael, I envied … Continue reading
A Thought for the Day (and the Days Ahead)
“It’s OK for our hearts to be broken over the world. What else is a heart for?” ~ Joanna Macy
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August 4, 2019
Tagged Dayton, domestic terrorism, El Paso, grief, guns, Joanna Macy, loss, News, tragedy, turmoil, violence
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Summer Has Started
It would have been Anthony Bourdain’s 63rd birthday today. Enjoy a listen to his inimitable voice. He manages to bring out the poetry in Waffle House. Today is a day to remember him with love. Today would have been Anthony … Continue reading
Beto and Pete: A Tale of Two Articles
In this election season, good journalism is important. But what happens when “good journalism” comes up against people’s uncritical adoration of a candidate? We all know the stereotype of the “hit piece.” In Janet Malcolm‘s 1990 book The Journalist and … Continue reading
Posted in Editing, Health, News, Writing
Tagged Beto O'Rourke, Candidates for 2020, elizabeth warren, good journalism, hit piece, Janet Malcolm, Journalism, Nathan Heller, Pete Buttigieg, politics, power, Vanity Fair, Vogue
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The Day That Notre Dame Burned
It was Tax Day, and that’s bad enough, but it turns out that April 15, 2019, will go down as the day that Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris burned almost completely. The two great towers are still standing, at least. Hours … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged April 15, Cathedral, Disaster, Fire, Medieval, News, Notre Dame, paris, Steve Silberman, Twitter
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