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Bookswarm designs Ten-Minute Tapas for Food Tripper Books
Bookswarm has designed and created the first of a planned series of quick and easy cookery eBooks for new imprint Food Tripper Books, created by award-winning TV presenter and food writer Helen Hokin. Ten-Minute Tapas brings you her collection of fast and fresh tapas...
Digital publisher Whittrick Press launches
Northern Ireland’s newest digital publisher Whittrick Press launches this week with their first publication by award-winning novelist and playwright Bernie McGill - and a responsive website and submission portal created by Bookswarm - www.whittrickpress.com. Launching...
A new coat for The Thought Fox
Bookswarm has created a new look for Faber's blog, The Thought Fox, which was originally launched in 2009 as a home for writing by Faber's authors, editors and other team members. The site is based on WordPress and uses a responsive WordPress theme to deliver a great...
Little Histories launches on World Book Night
To celebrate World Book Night, and the inclusion of E. H. Gombrich's seminal A Little History of the World among the World Book Night book selection, Yale University Press has today launched a new website for the Little Histories series, designed and made by...
Bookswarm sponsors Bookmachine Unplugged
Bookswarm is sponsoring Bookmachine's next Unplugged event in May, part of an event series which celebrates the culture of collaboration within the publishing industry. Speakers are invited along to talk openly about their publishing experiences and the big projects...
Faber launch Faber Social
Over the past eighteen months or so, Faber Social has developed from a live literary and music events programme into a more ambitious forum for publishing experiment: Faber Social. It launched last week, with a responsive website created by Bookswarm. Visit Faber...
The future of Foyles
A video showing some of the highlights of the two Foyles Bookshop Workshops that took place back in February. If you have 15 minutes and you have any kind of interest in the future of book retailing, as a consumer, bookseller, author or publisher, it's well worth a...
Are you ready for Salted?
Bookswarm has created a new design for Salt Publishing's blog, which takes on a new name: Salted. The new blog is designed to offer news and feature articles and to position the company as a key destination for ideas and information on creative writing, publishing...
The Nudge List in the news
Today's been a big day for coverage of The Nudge List, the curated book discovery app launched by our sister company, AMS Digital Publishing, in late January. Bookswarm designed the app and developed the means to feed content to it using our favourite platform,...
Simon and Molly take to the Writing Platform
Launched in beta today, The Writing Platform is a free online resource for all writers and poets emerging, established, not yet published, traditionally published and self-published who are looking for neutral and best practice information about writing in a...
So what does the bookshop of the future look like?
To Foyles for the Future Bookshop Workshop.
Literary events: going where the people are!
On Sunday Bookswarm's Simon Appleby went to a literary event - in a rural pub! A perfect combination, especially given that the book in question was Pete Brown's Shakespeare's Local (Pan Macmillan), Pete's history of The George Inn on Borough High Street. Pete talked...
In-company training for Reed Elsevier
Bookswarm's Simon Appleby has been delivering in-company training to Reed Elsevier's Clinical Solutions team this week - working with them on the digital product lifecycle and how to create user-centred digital products. If your business is interested in this kind of...
Bookswarm on Facebook
Better late than never, we now have a Bookswarm page on Facebook. Maybe it's the best way for you to keep in touch with what we're up to? If so, pop over and say hi!
The Seven Secrets of Successful Crime Writing
Today sees the launch of a new social media campaign for PanMacmillan crime author M.R. Hall. The theme of the campaign is Seven Secrets of Successful Crime Writing – and aspiring Agatha Christies and wannabe Ruth Rendells will have much to learn from a writer who has...
Bookswarm takes over for Tom Knox
Bookswarm has taken over the running of bestselling thriller writer Tom Knox's website, as the first step in its evolution. As the existing website was based on WordPress, it was quick and easy to create a copy and implement fixes and enhancements. Visit the site at...
Coming soon: social media campaign for crime author M. R. Hall
January 28th will see the launch of a new social media campaign for PanMacmillan crime author M.R. Hall, whose fifth Jenny Cooper crime novel, The Chosen Dead, publishes at the same time. The theme of the campaign is Seven Secrets of Successful Crime Writing - and...
Bookswarm sponsors BookMachine Unplugged
Bookswarm is proud to sponsor the next BookMachine Unplugged, which takes place at 6.30 PM on the 21st February 2013 at 229 The Venue , 229 Great Portland Street, London. BookMachine Unplugged is an event series which celebrates the culture of collaboration within the...