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Save the Date!

Looking forward to joining KPFA’s Women’s Magazine show later this month. We’ll be talking about mothers and daughters and all that we think and feel. Big topic, I know.

Save the date, San Francisco Bay Area friends: Monday, August 21, 1:00 Pacific time

And if you’re not in the area, tune in live at KPFA.org or visit the site anytime to listen.

Hoping you’ll listen…and buy my book, too.

Pretty-please Write a Review?

If you’ve read At the Seams and wouldn’t mind leaving a review on Amazon and Goodreads, I’d really appreciate it.

The reviews, even if just a sentence or two, help the book gain visibility, which leads to sales, which is the goal.

So, simply click on the links below and scroll to where you can “Write a Review” and select the number of stars.

For Amazon, click here.

For Goodreads, click here.

Thank you so much for your support, and please let your friends know about the book.

Library Talk

Thank you, Claudette Gassler and the Scarsdale Public Library for hosting me this past weekend. How exciting to have my first At the Seams talk in my hometown with family, lifelong friends and new readers.

I appreciate everyone’s support and encouragement and hope that I was moderately entertaining.

Until soon….

A 5-Star Review

I’m thrilled to share this review from Readers’ Favorite, released yesterday. Click here or read below.

Reviewed by Lynda Faye Schmidt for Readers’ Favorite

At the Seams by Pamela Gwyn Kripke is a story about family secrets. Told from the main character’s perspective, Kate Nichols, it begins with an impactful life-altering scene. Kate is eight years old when she learns from her mother that she’d had an uncle who died in a hospital four days after his birth in mysterious circumstances, a secret that will haunt her for the rest of her life. Interspersed among everyday events, like attending classes at Miss Kellerman’s school of ballet and the fiasco of Changing the Desk Day, are the tumultuous emotions of coming of age and tensions that develop between Kate’s parents. Anxious and curious, Kate struggles to let go of the past, obsessed with the story of the baby who died. Her search culminates in a satisfying ending that hits the sweet spot between feelings of closure and lingering questions.

I liked how the title of this book hints at the unraveling of family secrets while paying homage to the lineage of tailors that Kate Nichols is born into. Pamela Kripke writes effective descriptions that had me picturing every scene in vivid detail. Masterfully utilizing the craft of showing, not telling, I was pulled into the characters’ lives by the author and resonated with the complex interweaving of their relationships. Jealousy, insecurity, misunderstanding, unrealistic expectations, and the inability to accept one another and their differences are described with insight and perception. If you like character-driven stories about family ties that bind, blind, and undo us, you’ll enjoy reading At the Seams.