Author Archives: Gabriella West

About Gabriella West

Author of LGBT historical fiction and contemporary queer romance.

Coronavirus Dispatch #2: Andrew Cuomo Is Awesome

It helps to watch New York Governor Andrew Cuomo‘s measured, eloquent press conferences in the mornings. I watch them on CNN; I think MSNBC carries them as well. Here he is today, asked about what he would tell people who … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus Dispatch #1

Posted on March 19, 2020

Here’s how it started, at least the official story, from a site called CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy) that I just happened upon today on the web: “As suspected, a novel coronavirus has been identified in some … Continue reading →

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Read an Ebook Week Sale at Smashwords

Posted on February 28, 2020

It always creeps up on us! Here are some details about the annual Read an Ebook Week sale at Smashwords.com: “How the Program Works: At one minute past midnight Pacific time on March 1, the special Smashwords Read an Ebook … Continue reading →

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Review: Between Heaven and Hell by David Talbot

Posted on February 16, 2020

Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of My Stroke (Chronicle Prism, 176 pp, $22.95, January 2020) David Talbot—journalist, popular historian, longtime San Francisco resident, and author of Season of the Witch—has written a surprisingly vulnerable, intimate, often funny and engaging … Continue reading →

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A Knight’s Tale: Montargis Gets a BookBub Promo, Starting Today!

Posted on January 24, 2020

The follow-up to A Knight’s Tale: Kenilworth is now featured on BookBub and available for 99 cents at all the major ebook retailers (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Kobo, Google Play)! Writing the book in the winter of 2017 through … Continue reading →

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A Challenging New Year: Downbeat Trends for Indie Publishing

Posted on January 6, 2020

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 →

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Happy Holidays…

Posted on December 16, 2019

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 →

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Time of Grace Released in Audio Format!

Posted on December 10, 2019

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 →

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Beto and Pete: A Tale of Two Articles

Posted on November 2, 2019

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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

Posted on October 17, 2019

(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 →

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