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It's not long until the London Book Fair 2015, in its new home at Olympia - and Bookswarm will be on Stand 3A40 as part of the Independent Publishing Agency Collective. The Independent Publishing Agency Collective (IPAC) is a non-profit making body, formed by a number...

Hodder & Stoughton is relaunching the website for its science fiction, fantasy and horror community Hodderscape today, and holding its first open submission period later this year. The new website, which is designed by Bookswarm to be fully responsive, will make...

Bookswarm has designed a new, responsive website for the Royal Society of Literature. For nearly 200 years, the Royal Society of Literature has celebrated and nurtured all that is best in British literature, past and present. Today, alongside a world-class events...

Bookswarm is delighted to announce the appointment of our first non-executive director in a move designed to assist with strategic planning and business development. Tamsen Harward is a brands and media consultant with twenty years’ international experience in and...

May you get all the books you want from Santa. We look forward to helping more publishers, authors and allied trades in 2015!

Founded in 1936, and working from their building in the heart of London’s historic Clerkenwell, Robert Hale is a thriving independent publisher, publishing under four imprints: Robert Hale, catering for a truly wide range of interests both in fiction and non-fiction...

Bookswarm has designed a new website for Jennifer Gray, creator of four funny animal series for children: Atticus Claw and Chicken Mission (Faber); and Guinea Pigs Online and Puppies Online (Quercus). To accommodate the different series, we set up the site so that...

Bookswarm's Simon Appleby was at the University of Stirling recently as a guest speaker, addressing students on the MLitt in Publishing Studies course on the many ways publishers can make effective use of digital media for promoting their books, including thoughts on...

The Space is a website for artists and audiences to create and explore exciting new digital art. They commission projects from ambitious artists working across a range of art forms and creative and digital industries, technology and coding, art and culture. The Space...

Author support site The Writing Platform is encouraging writers and technologists to work together, with bursaries to fund new collaborative projects. Two bursaries of £4,000 each will be awarded to teams made up of one writer and one technologist, to fund a three...

The Independent Publishing Agency Collective (IPAC) is a non-profit making body, formed by a number of small agencies and teams who all focus strongly on the world of book publishing, including Bookswarm. Between them IPAC’s members cover marketing, publicity, event...

We thought it was time for a roundup of the diverse range of author websites we've launched in the past few months. First off we have a new website for scientist, communicator, author, journalist and broadcaster Marcus Chown. With books like Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt...

Bookbridgr, the blogger review website developed for Headline by Bookswarm, has been shortlisted in the Best Publisher Website category in this year's Futurebook Innovation Awards. The full shortlist in the category includes some other excellent offerings: Best...

Bookswarm has recently launched two websites for Faber children's authors. Memoirs of a Neurotic Zombie, by Jeff Norton, is narrated by the hilarious Adam Meltzer – pre-teen, worrywart, and now zombie. Adam’s family gets the fright of their lives when he turns up at...

Bookswarm has created a new responsive website for Scholastic Children's Books in the UK, with interest in the story that set the world on fire showing no sign of waning - Mockingjay, Part 1 hits cinemas on November 21st, and Scholastic have just released a new range...

Ben Willis, Publicity and Digital Campaigns Manager at Headline and architect of Bookbridgr (which was built by Bookswarm, in case you weren't paying attention) has been speaking at length to The Bookseller's Porter Anderson about the process of creating the site, how...

Bookswarm recently launched a website for debut YA novelist Virginia Bergin, whose book The Rain tells the story of one girl's desperate fight for survival in the face of global environmental catastrophe (with added snogging). One minute sixteen-year-old Ruby Morris...

Publisher Headline recently commissioned Bookswarm to create a new website for their multi-million bestselling star author Penny Vincenzi. We have created an elegant and understated new site which showcases Penny's extensive body of work and is easy and flexible when...