{"id":1342,"date":"2008-03-11T13:35:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T13:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/childrens-book-publisher-needs-a-big-idea-for-publicity\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:56:55","slug":"childrens-book-publisher-needs-a-big-idea-for-publicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/childrens-book-publisher-needs-a-big-idea-for-publicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s book publisher needs a &#8216;big idea&#8217; for publicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angie Dzalamanow of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am the public relations manager for Sylvan Dell Publishing, a children\u2019s book publisher committed to exciting children\u2019s imaginations with artistically spectacular science, math and nature themed stories.\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019re doing fairly well at securing reviews for our 29 titles with key trade publications, regional parenting magazines and bloggers, but we would like to create a bigger buzz and score some national attention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the back of every book, we include a &#8216;For Creative Minds&#8217; educational section with fun facts, crafts and other educational activities.\u00a0 We also offer free supplemental parent\/teacher resources on our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.SylvanDellPublishing.com\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>,\u00a0including 30-80 cross-curricular teaching activities, child-friendly learning links, audio readings, interactive quizzes and a bi-monthly e-newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, our books are first and foremost fun-to-read picture books, and we want parents and educators to understand that there doesn\u2019t need to be a strict line between educational and entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The public relations team consists of me and two interns, and our budget is limited.\u00a0 We need some creative, affordable ideas for media kits and pitches, but we\u2019ve yet to think of that &#8216;big idea&#8217; we need to garner national media.\u00a0 Help from your Hounds would be greatly appreciated!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angie Dzalamanow of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina writes: &#8220;I am the public relations manager for Sylvan Dell Publishing, a children\u2019s book publisher committed to exciting children\u2019s imaginations with artistically spectacular science, math and nature themed stories.\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019re doing fairly well at securing reviews for our 29 titles with key trade publications, regional parenting magazines and bloggers,\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/childrens-book-publisher-needs-a-big-idea-for-publicity\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":1,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[608,43,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-1342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-authors-publishers","8":"tag-book-marketing","9":"tag-help-this-hound","10":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41608,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/41608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}