Category Archives: Abuse & Recovery

Read an Ebook Week 2021 Starts Today!

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Gabriella West

It’s that time again… The Smashwords annual weekly sale starts today and runs through next Saturday. I have two ebooks on sale, A Knight’s Tale: Kenilworth, my medieval romance novel, and my latest contemporary M/M romance, Once You are Mine. … Continue reading →

Posted in Abuse & Recovery, LGBT, Self-publishing, Writing | Tagged 2021, A Knight's Tale: Kenilworth, bisexual romance, Bookbub, dystopian, gay romance, healing, MMRomance, once you are mine, Read an Ebook Week, Smashwords | Leave a comment

Girding Up for Fall (With a Free Book!)

Posted on September 8, 2018 by Gabriella West

Fall promises to be hectic: We have less than sixty days left before the midterms. Looking at my wall calendar, election day is November 6. I expect to be working in a Bay Area Vote by Mail unit around election … Continue reading →

Posted in Abuse & Recovery, LGBT, News, Self-publishing, Writing | Tagged Aaron, audiobook, childhood, confronting the past, connecting the dots, contemporary romance, election day, Elsie Street, fall, Findaway Voices, Free, gay romance, indie, midterms, moon cake, Return to Carlsbad, siblings | Leave a comment

A Jumbled Year

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Gabriella West

What a jumble this year has been! We end the year with Doug Jones‘s historic win in Alabama (yay) and the GOP Tax Bill passing the House and Senate (grrr). Robert Mueller will either save us or be ignominiously fired by … Continue reading →

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Review: Lust & Wonder, A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Gabriella West

Oscar Wilde once famously said that all women become like their mothers; that’s their tragedy. He added, “No man does. That’s his.” Wilde was implying that all men become like their fathers. The fact is, the last book I read … Continue reading →

Posted in Abuse & Recovery, LGBT, Reviews | Tagged anxiety, augusten burroughs, borderline personality disorder, dry, gay men, lust and wonder, memoir, PTSD, relationships, running with scissors | 2 Comments

New Year; A Look Back at Reading

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Gabriella West

Well, it’s January 1, and last year was so busy with both writing and editing work that I didn’t get to tend to this blog as much as I should have. So here’s a little recap. Thinking back to the … Continue reading →