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Time of Grace
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The Leaving
The Captain and Claire
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Author Archives: Gabriella West
Coronavirus Dispatch #3: It’s Surreal
I’m going to keep these short, as none of us have a lot of bandwidth these days. But yes, it’s surreal. We have gone over 20,00 deaths in the U.S. as of today. In a few days, it will be … Continue reading
Posted in News, Personal
Tagged 2020, California, coronavirus, deaths, Hart Island, Ireland, life after this, Medium, pain, pandemic, Return to Normal, surreal
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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
Coronavirus Dispatch #1
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
Posted in Health, News, Personal, San Francisco
Tagged alienation, Bay Area, California, capitalism, coronavirus, COVID-19, crisis, death, empathy, fear, friendship, global pandemic, loss, nature, shelter in place, shortage, society, surreal, tests, Trump Administration, uncertainty
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Read an Ebook Week Sale at Smashwords
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
Posted in News, Self-publishing, Writing
Tagged 2020, LGBTQ, novels, Read an Ebook Week, sale, Smashwords
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Review: Between Heaven and Hell by David Talbot
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
A Knight’s Tale: Montargis Gets a BookBub Promo, Starting Today!
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
Posted in LGBT, Reviews, Writing
Tagged A Knight's Tale: Montargis, bisexual romance, Bookbub, desire, historical romance, kindle book reviews, LGBT, love, medieval france, promotion
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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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