Sariah Swanson
Founder & Campaign Director
Leads campaign strategy across Listopia, retail and launch planning, and personally scopes every book the studio takes on.
sariahswanson.uk@gmail.comAbout
A small studio, by design.
Fourth Group & Co exists because most books are marketed by people who never read them. We work the other way round: the manuscript first, the campaign second, and only as many titles as we can genuinely carry.
The team
Three people, no handoffs.
Edith Homer
Head of Film & Production
Runs trailer production end to end — script, score, edit and grade — so each film sounds the way the book reads.
edithhomerr@gmail.com
Hannah Carter
Author Brand & Web Lead
Designs and builds author websites and shapes the listing copy that carries a book from browse to buy.
hannahcelestecarter@gmail.comOur process
I
Read the book
Before anything is proposed, we read the manuscript and the market it lands in. Strategy comes out of the pages, not a deck.
II
Shape the campaign
One clear plan: the disciplines that matter for this title, the sequence they run in, and what each one is expected to move.
III
Make the work
Film, design, listings and placements are produced in house by the people who scoped them. Nothing is passed to a template.
IV
Report honestly
Live links, real positions, plain numbers. You always know where the book is and what happened next.
What we look for
We say yes carefully.
- A finished manuscript, or one close enough to read properly.
- A reader you can describe in a sentence.
- A launch window that leaves time to make something good.
- An author who wants a plan, not a package.
Submit your manuscript
Send the book, not a brief.
Email the manuscript or a sample with your title, genre and launch date. We read everything ourselves, reply in under an hour, and come back with an honest view of what we would do — whether or not you hire us.
Email your manuscriptFour titles taken each quarter