Headline Publishing Group

Kathryn Hughes

Kathryn Hughes is author of digital number 1 and international bestseller The Letter, as well as The Secret and The Key.

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Wildfire is part of the Headline Division of Hachette UK, a vibrant and dynamic publishing company which is also one of the biggest in the world. Wildfire publish a broad range of quality commercial fiction and non-fiction.

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Martina Cole

A new website for Queen of Crime Martina Cole, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of her first novel.

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H for History

H for History is the historical fiction and non-fiction community from Hodder & Stoughton, Headline and Quercus. Bookswarm designed and built this responsive website to allow both books and blog posts to be explored using a range of classifications, including Period and Genre.

“When a project comes along I can work with Bookswarm on I immediately feel more relaxed. Communication on projects from start to finish is outstanding (and so important) which helps to move things along at a good pace and get the results we all want. Simon is always on hand for questions and advice throughout the project, and is incredibly tolerant of the unrelenting change requests and tweaks from our many stakeholders.”

Amy Dolman, Digital Marketing Manager, Hodder & Stoughton

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Live Fast, Lose Weight

Microsite for Instagram-based competition in support of the launch of Charlotte Crosby’s cookbook Live Fast, Lose Weight.

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Six Tudor Queens

Campaign microsite for Alison Weir’s new Six Tudor Queens series, which will encompass all six of the wives of Henry VIII in six books.

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Karen Rose Cityscape

Commissioned by publisher Headline, Karen Rose Cityscape allows fans to explore the work of internationally bestselling, RITA-award winning, author Karen Rose via an interactive map, and to see which characters feature in which books.

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Lisa Gardner Case Files

A UK digital presence for bestselling crime-writer Lisa Gardner. Redesigned and relaunched in November 2016.

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Sheila O’Flanagan

Responsive website for Sheila O’Flanagan, number 1 bestselling author of contemporary women’s fiction.

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Crimefiles

Crime fiction community website for Hachette publishers Headline, Hodder & Stoughton and Quercus, showcasing their combined crime list as well as staff and guest blogs and a regular podcast.

“When a project comes along I can work with Bookswarm on I immediately feel more relaxed. Communication on projects from start to finish is outstanding (and so important) which helps to move things along at a good pace and get the results we all want. Simon is always on hand for questions and advice throughout the project, and is incredibly tolerant of the unrelenting change requests and tweaks from our many stakeholders.”

Amy Dolman, Digital Marketing Manager, Hodder & Stoughton

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Patrick Gale

New website for Patrick Gale, author of novels including A Perfectly Good Man, The Whole Day Through and the Richard and Judy bestseller Notes From An Exhibition.

“Having designed me a stylish website, which is simplicity itself for me to maintain and update, Bookswarm have always been wonderfully speedy and a pleasure to deal with when I’ve needed some radical change making to the site’s structure or functions. I’d recommend them highly to any other writers or creative types who need a website and don’t want to know too much about what happens under the bonnet…”

Patrick Gale, author of Richard and Judy bestsellers Notes From An Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man

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Tinder Press

Blog and catalogue website for Headline’s fiction imprint Tinder Press, a place where classy, intelligent writing thrives.

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Karen Maitland

Website for Karen Maitland, author of medieval thrillers including The Vanishing Witch, Liars and Thieves, Falcons of Fire and Ice, The Gallows Curse and The Owl Killers.

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Jill Mansell

Website for bestselling author Jill Mansell.

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Simon Scarrow

Responsive author website for Simon Scarrow, number one bestselling author of the Cato and Macro novels and many other historical best-sellers.

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Harriet Evans

A new home on the web for Harriet Evans and her writing, to coincide with her move to new publishers Headline.

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Penny Vincenzi

Author website for multi-million bestselling author Penny Vincenzi, commissioned by publishers Headline. Updated in August 2018.

“Working with Bookswarm on [Penny Vincenzi’s website] was a completely positive and painless experience – you made everything as easy and straightforward as possible and everyone is thrilled with the result.”

Jo Liddiard, Head of Marketing, Headline Publishing Group

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bookbridgr

bookbridgr lets book bloggers request books, exclusive content and author interviews direct from the publisher. It gives bloggers first access to dozens of front and backlist Headline titles (both in physical and ebook formats), while also allowing them to request a huge amount of extra book content for their blogs, join an author blog tour or request interviews with new and bestselling authors.

“Building bookbridgr with Simon and his team was awesome. From initial wire-framing right through to implementation and launch, he was on hand at every moment to build, fix, tweak – and most importantly to put my mind at ease throughout the process.”

Ben Willis, Publicity & Digital Campaigns Manager, Headline Publishing Group

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Headline Publishing Group

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