Myriad Editions

Myriad Editions is an independent publishing house based in Brighton, UK, specialising in three genres: topical atlases, graphic non-fiction and original fiction. The publisher and managing director is Candida Lacey.[1]

History

Myriad Editions was founded as a book packager in 1993. Myriad's flagship atlas, The State of the World Atlas, was originally devised by Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal and is now authored by leading international peace researcher Dan Smith, O.B.E. It has sold over 700,000 copies worldwide.[2]

Myriad Editions continues to publish award-winning atlases which map political, social and environmental concerns. Most of the atlases are distributed internationally, through publishers including Penguin and the University of California Press in the USA, Earthscan in the UK, Éditions Autrement in France, Eva in Germany, Obeikan in Saudi Arabia, Publifolha in Brazil, Maruzen in Japan, Sigma in Taiwan and Pajera in Thailand.

Myriad Editions also publishes special projects for the United Nations and other international organizations. These include a miniAtlas series on global development for the World Bank and a series of atlases on health issues for the World Health Organization and the American Cancer Society.

In 2005, Myriad Editions published The Brighton Book, which was a mixture of reportage, fiction, graphics and photographs. They went on to publish full-length novels written by two of the anthology's contributors: Martine McDonagh’s I Have Waited, and You Have Come and Lesley Thomson’s A Kind of Vanishing.[3]

In 2009, the independent publishing company was awarded an Arts Council England grant to further develop their fiction publishing.[4] With this funding, Myriad was able to publish two début novels by local authors in 2009, The Cloths of Heaven by Sue Eckstein and Glasshopper by Isabel Ashdown.

In Spring 2010, Myriad Editions launched a fiction list with three new novels, The Noise of Strangers by Robert Dickinson, The Clay Dreaming by comic artist Ed Hillyer and The Spider Truces by Tom Connolly.

As of August 2011, Myriad Editions has published several more new novels, including Quilt, by Nicholas Royle, Invisibles by Ed Siegle and 4a.m. by Nina de la Mer, as well as Elizabeth Haynes's Into the Darkest Corner, winner of Amazon's Book of the Year in 2011 and Amazon's Rising Star Award for debut novels.[5] Their most recently-published novel is Sue Eckstein's second book Interpreters. The company plans to continue their fiction list with 4-6 new titles every year, mainly by first-time authors from the South East of England.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Myriad opportunities", Book Brunch, 23 May 2013.
  2. ↑ Laura Smith, "All new jaw-dropping stats!", Evening Standard, 18 September 2003.
  3. ↑ "Publisher Feature: Interview with Myriad Editions". Myriad's fiction editor Victoria Blunden talks with Rosy B. Vulpes Libris, 18 February 2010.
  4. ↑ Victoria Gallagher, "Myriad gets", The Bookseller, 12 February 2009.
  5. ↑ Elizabeth Haynes at Amazon.
  6. ↑ http://www.viewfromheremagazine-opportunities.com/2010/01/publisher-profile-myriad-editions.html

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