How Did This Happen? 🚀

Launching a memoir without a publicist.

Widow in the City: A Memoir of Heartbreaks and Hookups launched May 5, 2026

We made it! 🎉🎉🎉

Widow in the City is out in the world 🌎

If you’ve already purchased the book — thank you, from the bottom of my heart ❤️.

If you liked what you read, I’d be so grateful if you would leave a review on Amazon (especially if that’s where you bought it) and/or Goodreads.

Reviews boost the algorithm, (I know, it sucks), but it gets the book seen by more people, and that could lead to a bigger impact.

I don’t have any sales data yet, but meanwhile…

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I’VE BEEN IN PROMOTION MODE 👇

(🔍 Click on bolded purple “Substack” links to find me)

1. May 1 — Substack, Editor On Board, Jennifer Silva Redmond

   • World Wanderers and Sexy Widows, Book Review

2. May 4 — Substack Live with Jennifer Pastiloff, bestselling author of On Being Human and Proof of Life: Let Go, Let Love, and Stop Looking for Permission to Live Your Life

   • Recorded clips on Instagram

3. May 8 — Substack, Narratively, Co-founder / Director Brendan Spiegel

   • Excerpt “Widow in the City” (4,000 words)

4. May 11 — Substack, Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe

   • Duality in Grief, The Body, Brain, and Books: Eleven Questions with author Amy Gabrielle

5. May 12 — Substack Live on The Daily Whatever Show with Dana DuBois and Lawrence Winnerman

   • TDWS: “Widow in the City” author Amy Gabrielle

MARK YOUR CALENDARS 📆

1. May 20 — Substack, Parents Who Think, Danusia Malina-Derben

   • Parents Who Create, the Questionnaire with Amy Gabrielle

2. May 21 — Substack Live on Narratively Academy in conversation with Brendan Spiegel

   • Open Book with Amy Gabrielle (add to calendar) 👇

     

CHECK BACK FOR DETAILS 📌

1. May/June – YouTube, Podcast (recorded 4/23), Emily Bingham

   • “Widow in the City” author Amy Gabrielle

2. July — Zoom, Weirdo Bookclub, Jennifer Pastiloff

   • July’s Book, “Widow in the City”

3. July — Substack, (recorded 5/20), Suzanne Noble

   • Sex and Widowhood with Amy Gabrielle

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Widow in the City, A Memoir of Heartbreaks and Hookups is available wherever you buy books or by using the links below:

Thank you for being here! I appreciate you ❤️

With love,

Amy