About Swann and Cipher
Every story has something beneath it.
Swann tells the story.
Cipher decodes what lies beneath.
Swann and Cipher is an independent publishing and entertainment company creating original intellectual property, literary experiences, and cultural platforms designed to move stories beyond a single format.
WHO WE ARE
Built for Stories That Keep Going
Swann and Cipher was founded on a simple belief: a compelling story should not have to end at the final page.
We develop original story worlds with the potential to move across publishing, entertainment, and literary experiences while preserving the characters, histories, places, and human questions at their center.
Our work begins with story. Where that story travels next depends on what the world around it makes possible.
THE PHILOSOPHY
Swann represents the narrative: character, imagination, place, conflict, memory, and the human experience.
Cipher represents what lives underneath: the history, systems, relationships, inherited choices, and unanswered questions that shape the story.
Together, they define how we approach our work.
We tell the story.
We decode what shaped it.
We build the table where something can be done about what remains.
HOW THE COMPANY WORKS
From Story to Story World
PUBLISHING
Original fiction and intellectual property developed with long-form storytelling, distinctive characters, and expandable worlds at the center.
ENTERTAINMENT
Selected properties developed for film, television, and other narrative formats when the story supports expansion beyond the page.
LITERARY EXPERIENCES
Curated gatherings, culinary storytelling, author programming, collector experiences, and signature events that brings the story into physical and communal ways.
One story does not have to become all three. Every expansion must serve the story first.