Tag Archives: death

Fall Bargains and Musings

Posted on October 10, 2021 by Gabriella West

I wanted to let folks know that a couple of my books are on sale now at Smashwords. You can get Once You Are Mine for 25% off; The Pull of Yesterday, book 2 in the Elsie Street trilogy is … Continue reading →

Posted in Health, LGBT, News, Personal, Self-publishing, Writing | Tagged Bookbub, cancer, Colin Powell, Covid, death, Elsie Street, Free, hearts, mortality, once you are mine, Radish, Smashwords, The Pull of Yesterday | Leave a comment

Coronavirus Dispatch #1

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Gabriella West

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 | 1 Comment

Read an Ebook Week on Smashwords, and a New Book Out Too…

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Gabriella West

Busy week ahead. The annual Read an Ebook Week sale kicked off on Smashwords. It’s on March 4-10th, and four of my novels are discounted! My contemporary gay romance Elsie Street is free, while my three other books, including Time of Grace, are … Continue reading →

Posted in News, Self-publishing, Writing | Tagged A Knight's Tale: Kenilworth, A Knight's Tale: Montargis, bisexual romance, Cathars, death, exile, infidelity, joy, Knight's Tale, KU, medieval england, medieval gay romance, new release, Read an Ebook Week, sale, sex, Smashwords | Leave a comment

A Hell of a Year

Posted on December 11, 2016 by Gabriella West

2016 has been a hell of a year. It feels too soon to do a retrospective, but it’s been the kind of year where I uploaded a picture of a Facebook friend’s beautiful young dog running through some snowy woods … Continue reading →

Posted in News, Personal | Tagged 2016, Biden, cancer, cycle, death, distance, election, Electoral College, Facebook, Ghost Ship, grief, hope, Nixon, oligarchy, pain, Russia, sanity, Trump, Watergate | 2 Comments

Review: The Goldfinch

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Gabriella West

Ah, The Goldfinch… This has to be one of the books I waited the longest to read. Got it on my Kindle when it first came out, was a bit put off by the hype, started plowing into the initial … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged antiques, art, death, Donna Tartt, drugs, fakes, Kindle, Las Vegas, literary, loss, New York, PTSD, sexuality, The Goldfinch, trauma | 2 Comments

The quality of our lives has an interesting rhythm. We strive to make our lives better, lighter, and then at certain times we feel haunted and pulled down by darkness. Certainly the horribly untimely death of Philip Seymour Hoffman this … Continue reading →

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Gabriella West | 1 Comment