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There's a great interview with Bookswarm client Dr Barbara Oakley on the New York Times today, all about her massively successful online course, Learning How to Learn. We designed and built Barbara's website last year and we think she's a real inspiration! Read the...

Faber & Faber has launched a website dedicated to the "beloved" crime writer and author P. D. James, on the date of the author's birthday. The site was designed and built by Bookswarm in response to Faber's brief to create an online hub for information about...

Our friend Molly Flatt at FutureBook has just published a very interesting editorial piece about 'browser books' which takes as its starting point Phoenix Magazine's journey from delivering digital content via an app to delivering via a well-organised web-based...

An author website is still far more essential than Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, says Simon Appleby. This piece originally appears on the Bookseller's Futurebook website. It seems remarkable to me, in 2017, to even be discussing whether an author should have a...

Welcome to the third post of our new series, in which we ask our author clients to answer three questions about how they use digital marketing in their careers, and how it affects their writing. This week: Dr Barbara Oakley, a professor of engineering at Oakland...

Welcome to the second post of our new series, in which we ask our lovely author clients to answer three questions about how they use digital marketing in their careers, and how it affects their writing. This week: Peter Fisk. Peter is a global business thought leader...

Welcome to the first in a new series, in which we ask our lovely author clients to answer three questions about how they use digital marketing in their careers, and how it affects their writing. Kicking us off is Patrick Gale. Patrick's sixteenth novel, A Place Called...

Delivering consultancy services has always been a key part of what Bookswarm does - but providing information about that alongside our portfolio of core services has always been something of a challenge. So now we've created a new website to showcase some of our...

Bookswarm will be exhibiting at London Book Fair at Olympia again this year - we're on the Independent Publishing Agency Collective stand (3A40), which you can find directly opposite the Tech Bar. If you're going, please do come along and say hello. You could even...

2016 has been a busy year for Bookswarm. Simon Appleby looks back... Don't mention Brexit, don't mention Trump, don't mention Brexit, don't mention Trump, don't mention Brexit, don't mention Trump. Putting events that shall not be named to one side, 2016 has been a...

Bookswarm's founder Simon Appleby rounds up some useful advice and information for authors considering taking the plunge on creating their first website, or renewing an existing web presence. Why does an author need a website? Here are the three most important...

Kjell Eldor reflects on the anatomy of a successful project. We recently worked with the editorial team at Walker Books to create a micro-site for their new publication Get Coding! In this case study I'll share with you how we bring website projects to life at...

It's time for the second in our series of guest posts. Leila Dewji co-founded I_AM Self-Publishing to help self-publishing authors get to market in the most professional way possible. Here she shares some of the tips that her authors use to get one step ahead of the...