Beul Aithris Publishing

Small Press Publisher specialising in folklore, paranormal, dark history and strange fiction. www.beulaithrispublishing.co.uk

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Next up for Easter reading...

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Cover to my first book. Out soon with @beulaithris.

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Now a published author! Uncanny Clydeside by M J Steel Collins if you enjoy a good eerie tale. Available on Amazon worldwide.

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A thing happened. My company website went live! It can be seen at beulaithrispublishing.co.uk.

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It arrived

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Oh yes! #NorseMythology #Books @neilhimself #LibraryCopy

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Exciting things ahead

The start to Beul Aithris has been very busy, but very fruitful. We are now in a position of having a publishing schedule to see us well into 2018, and there are a lot of exciting things planned.

On a non publishing related note, the office from which Beul Aithris operates, The Orkney Street Enterprise Centre, recently featured on STV’s The People’s History Show. The building once housed the local police jail and was a rather busy place. Owing to it’s history, much of the cell block has had to retain it’s prison-like look, although now it is mostly a hub of creativity and business nuance, rather than the lock up of the local ne’er do wells!

Finally, this week is Libraries Week. Without a doubt, Beul Aithris would not be what it is without the support of a library, where the whole journey began when a flyer for the aforementioned Enterprise Centre was found, and information on working in publishing was devoured!

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Live in the morning with Steg G - 31st March 2017

Live in the morning with Steg G - 31st march 2017 www.steg-g.info www.sunnyg.com

Beul Aithris hit the airwaves this morning talking all things ghostly and folkloric, with some Ninja Bunnies

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A PROPERLY spinning hammer cover. 

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Five weeks after publication, and several weeks at #1, Norse Mythology is at #3 in the US and the UK, and I am amazed and thrilled. Thank you to everyone who bought it and to everyone who told other people how much they liked it. 

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Six weeks after publication. Another week at #1 in Canada, #3 in the US, and #3 in the UK. Astonished author is still grateful. Grateful author is still astonished. Both.

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Did the North Berwick Witches Actually Do Any Magic?

Did the North Berwick Witches Actually Do Any Magic?

Blog readers have my apologies for the lateness of this, the first post of my monthly blogging — February has seen me contract Vestibular Neuronitis, a condition affecting my balance. As such February 2017 has been both surreal and hugely unpleasant, and I’m not fully on my feet yet.

Anyway, as some of my readers might know, one case that I often return to is the North Berwick trials of 1590-91.…

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Why Start A Small Press Anyway?

Ever since January, life has been a flurry of activity in setting up Beul Aithris Publishing, and several learning curves spun around. Just when you think you’ve got it, off it goes again!

But now we are up and running, an entity (though not the ghostly type, which might appear in one of our books). And there’s even a book out, with more on the way. Right now is what Alex Ferguson used to call “Squeaky bum time”, when things get serious and there is a high risk factor. Yes, it’s been hair raising, but it has also been fun. 

And the whole reason for doing this comes from a love of reading, primarily a love of the strange and unusual. Plus there didn’t seem to be much in the way of an actual publisher with a main focus on folklore, which is a shame, because so much can be gleaned from lore. It shouldn’t be sat to one side in a dusty part of a library, which no one visits. Folklore is always alive and ever changing. It’s up to the minute as well as archaic.  The name of the company is actually taken from the Scottish Gaelic for folklore or oral tradition, primarily because it seemed right. It’s pronounced Beeyoall Arriish to answer the often asked questio

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Our first book, available from Amazon now: https://www.beulaithrispublishing.co.uk/about-1/our-books/