? Media and marketing campaigns by Caitlin Hamilton Marketing, including national media outreach to trades, newspapers and glossies, and targeted radio (Publishers Weekly, ForeWord, School Library Journal, Star-Ledger, New Jersey magazine, New York Times, Bookforum, The Nervous Breakdown, NPR, WNYC, O the Oprah Magazine, Glamour) ? Online media campaign, including to general and historical fiction book bloggers (Book Riot, Readerly, Historical Fiction Connection, Reading the Past, Beth Fish Reads) and selected YA bloggers ? Bookstore events in New Jersey. Non-bookstore venues to include book festivals, art museums, reading series. ? Author will participate in book group discussions and Skype sessions ? Off-the-book-page coverage of about the story of the Bianco women and the author?s research ? Outreach to selected websites for artists and/or women artists ? Social media campaign, including GoodReads giveaway ? Author to publish story in The Asbury Park Press (daily paper with circulation of 91,000; Monmouth County and Ocean County, NJ) ? the unknown connection between Margery Williams Bianco and Point Pleasant, NJ where she often summered at Agnes O?Neill?s home and where Eugene O?Neill spent a disastrous winter. ? Author to publish piece related to book in The Two River Times (local weekly paper with circulation of 20,000; Monmouth County, NJ) ? Links to book to be embedded in blogs of members of the Society of Children?s Book Writers and Illustrators (22,000 members). ? Author is a member of MWPA Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance); the organization will print cover art and post blurbs for the book in their newsletter.

The Velveteen Daughter reveals for the first time the true story of two remarkable women: Margery Williams Bianco, the author of one of the most beloved children's books of all time,The Velveteen Rabbit,and her daughter Pamela, a world-renowned child prodigy artist whose fame at one time greatly eclipses her mother's. But celebrity at such an early age exacts a great toll. Pamela's dreams elude her as she struggles with severe depressions, an overbearing father, an obsessive love affair, and a spectacularly misguided marriage. Throughout, her life raft is her mother. The glamorous art world of Europe and New York in the early 20th century and a supporting cast of luminaries - Eugene O'Neill and his wife Agnes (Margery's niece), Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica - provide a vivid backdrop to the Biancos' story. From the opening pages, the novel will captivate readers with its multifaceted and illuminating observations on art, family, and the consequences of genius touched by madness.