PUBLICIST: Caitlin Hamilton Summie, [email protected]
• National media campaign including trades (Publishers Weekly, Booklist, etc.), Go Skagit, Anacortes Now, Seattle Times, Seattle Review of Books, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (online), New York Times, Washington Post, The Advocate, selected media in the broader South, especially in Chapel Hill and broader North Carolina literary/book outlets, NPR, KUOW, KVIX, KMWS, WWNO (New Orleans) • Blogger/Instagram outreach • Events in Washington and elsewhere at stores, festivals, and associations • Outreach to New Orleans booksellers • Marketing collateral (meme, bookmark or postcard) • Tie-in with show Marie Dancing Still (if available) • Outreach to Degas/artistic community • Website • Social media, both by author and through relevant book clubs and groups

When Edgar Degas visits his French Creole relatives in New Orleans from 1872 to '73, Estelle, his cousin and sister-in-law, encourages the artist - who has not yet achieved recognition and struggles to find inspiration - to paint portraits of their family members. In 1970, Anne Gautier, a young artist, finds connections between her ancestors and Degas while renovating the New Orleans house she has inherited. When Anne finds two identical portraits of Estelle, she discovers disturbing truths that change her life as she searches for meaningful artistic expression - just as Degas did one hundred years earlier. A gripping historical novel told by two women living a century apart, Estelle combines mystery, family saga, art, and romance in its exploration of the man Degas was before he became the artist famous around the world today.