Innovative publishing firm wins top honour
A Stirling publishing company has been awarded a top honour.
Extremis Publishing, founded in Stirling in 2015 by siblings Julie Christie and Dr Tom Christie, was named Independent Publisher of the Year at the Corporate LiveWire Scotland Prestige Awards 2021/22.
The pair were invited to collect the prize at a ceremony in Edinburgh from Osmaan Mahmood, the CEO and founder of Fenice Media, which runs the awards.
The Scotland Prestige Awards aim to celebrate the work of businesses which provide persistently accomplished products to the market in which they are situated, and the judging panel based their decisions upon areas such as service excellence, quality of the products and services provided, innovative practices, value, ethical and sustainable methods of working, and consistency in performance.
Julie said:“Most of the authors we work with are either local or from the Forth Valley area.
“Tom has a PhD in Scottish Literature from Stirling University and has written 17 books published on both sides of the Atlantic. He and I together wrote The Heart 200 Book which is a guide to the local Heart 200 route around Stirlingshire and Perthshire.
“Tom has also been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.”
Extremis Publishing is dedicated to producing the highest quality of non-fiction in the subject areas of the arts, media and culture with the central objective to source and promote new writing by new and established authors, reaching out to a readership both in the United Kingdom and throughout international markets.
In addition to publishing new writing, the company also produces a number of video features and a monthly podcast to help the public get to know more about its authors. Since the business started, it has published books on subjects as diverse as popular culture, modern cinema history, Scottish road trips, cultural history, archaeology, travel writing, and many other topics besides.
Julie added:“Extremis Publishing was started with the intention of producing books that were different, eclectic, quirky, and never run of the mill. This included encouraging new authors of any age, all of whom had an interesting story that deserved to be told.
“We would describe our approach as author-focused, unconventional, and innovative.
“We would like to thank everyone who has supported us since the business began, and aim to continue working to produce the very best quality of new books over the months and years ahead.”