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Review: Getting Rooted in New Zealand

Posted on August 30, 2014 by Gabriella West

This has been such a heavy month. We lost Robin Williams, there was a sizeable earthquake in Napa that had many of us waking at 3.20am wondering if it was “the big one,” and it doesn’t look good for Joan … Continue reading →

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Queerly Beloved: a review

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Gabriella West

I’ve always been fascinated by gender diversity. A memoir has just been published that explores what happens when one partner in a long-term lesbian relationship transitions to being a man. What surprised me about Queerly Beloved (Bold Strokes Books, May 2014, $9.99 … Continue reading →

Posted in LGBT, Reviews, San Francisco, Writing | Tagged Bold Strokes Books, gender, lesbian, lesbian relationships, LGBT, marriage, memoir, queer marriage, Queerly Beloved, trans | Leave a comment

Paradise with Power Cuts: How to Be a Digital Nomad

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Gabriella West

Writer and editor Jennifer Barclay took a huge leap of faith when she left her London publishing job to move to the small Greek island of Tilos, where she basks in the natural beauty of her surroundings and still continues … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Bloggers, Travel, Work/Life Balance, Writing | Tagged Digital Nomad, editor, Falling in Honey, freedom, freelancing, Greece, healing, Internet, Jennifer Barclay, memoir, publishing, Tilos, work | 1 Comment

Read an Ebook Week ended on Saturday night. Lots of copies of Time of Grace flew off the virtual shelves at Smashwords during the weeklong promo, and on the very last day three copies of Connecting the Dots sold at … Continue reading →

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Gabriella West | Leave a comment

Let Me Get This Off My Chest: A Breast Cancer Survivor Over-Shares, Margaret Lesh. StoryRhyme.com Publishing, July 2013, Kindle Edition .99 Margaret Lesh strikes the right note here in her account of the “floating year” she spent going through diagnosis, … Continue reading →

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Gabriella West | Leave a comment

That Lonely, Sinking Feeling

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Gabriella West

When I look back on my life here in San Francisco I am amazed at all the changes the city has been through and that I have been through in the city. Somehow it seems hard to separate my emotional … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal, Writing | Tagged attachment, Gina Genovese, letting go, memoir, San Francisco, Shannon Yarbrough, That Lonely Sinking Feeling, unrequited love, writing | Leave a comment

‘Found’ Is a Poignant, Powerful Take on Adoption Issues

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Gabriella West

Let me say first off that I am not an adoptee, so I don’t come to Found with the emotional hair triggers and sensitivities that someone in that situation might. But this new memoir by journalist Jennifer Lauck (Seal Press, … Continue reading →

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Susie Bright’s Wild Ride

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Gabriella West

‘Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir’ Susie Bright, Seal Press, 304 p, $24.95 hc “How does a woman, an American woman born in midcentury, write a memoir?” Susie Bright asks in the preface to her quirky, raw, surprising memoir Big … Continue reading →