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blaft

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South Indian indie publishing house. Tamil pulp fiction, Urdu detective novels, & Nigerian soyayya in translation. Comics. Ladies with monster boyfriends. More.
https://blaft.com

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blaft, (edited ) to 13thFloor
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#Ebooks are available from the Blaft website, from Smashwords, or from the muchtoolarge retailers. Can we interest you in a #Tamil supernatural #thriller in English #translation? #Mythology from the state of #Mizoram on India's border with Myanmar? Bonkers slipstream short fiction from Kuzhali Manickavel? An encyclopedia of #ghosts and #cryptids?

https://www.blaft.com/collections/ebooks

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/blaft/newest#published

blaft,
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@zdl Are you sure? Razorpay (which we use on our site) says it accepts CNY. What error are you getting?

blaft,
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@zdl please let us know, let's try to work it out

blaft,
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@zdl Thanks a ton for documenting this. I'm going to raise it to the support team and see if they can advise.

blaft, to random
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We met Bill Campbell of the fantabulous Rosarium Publishing last weekend in DC!

They're the publishers of 2 of our favourite anthos, "The SEA Is Ours" edited by @jolantruchng, and Sunspot Jungle, which features a Kuzhali Manickavel story. I'm now the proud owner of two new books, a collection of horror stories from Ugandan author Dilman Dila and an SF epic by Subodhana Wijeyeratne.

Toss out your TV, go buy a bookshelf and fill it up with their list right now
http://rosariumpublishing.com/

The Sea is Ours edited by Jaymee Goh & Joyce Chng
Where Rivers Go to Die, Stories by Dilman Dila
Rakesh Khanna of Blaft & Bill Campbell of Rosarium

blaft,
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Dilman Dila's ghost stories are super spooky and Wijeyeratne has won my heart in the first chapter by using Skōlex (the name of the horrible giant Indus Worm of antiquity, cited by Ctesias) as the name of a massive sentient spaceship

blaft, to random
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Indie Comix Fest is getting bigger and better and crazier every year. March 17 in Delhi! Mark the date!

anandphilipc, to random
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2024 Fiction Thread. I mostly read mysteries, fantasy and science fiction and and trying to read more brown authors because i'm that kinda bougie.

  1. A Clue for the Puzzle Lady
    Parnell Hall. The book's real protagonist is a puzzle-solving alcohol-guzzling old lady who zips across the pages adding much confusion to the story. Well done. The book's other protagonists and their lives are kinda sad. If you solve the crossword upfront you will know enough to solve the murder.
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@anandphilipc Thanks! And so glad you enjoyed it!

Inshallah we will get to publish more of Hajiya Balaraba's work or other Hausa soyayya fiction in translation one day!

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Aaand it's done! 187 backers!

A gazillion thanks to you all! We're really looking forward to finishing up the book 🙏

blaft,
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@misty thanks!!!

blaft, to random
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5 minutes left! Your final chance at getting your name in the book go go go

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaftgujaratipulp/an-anthology-of-gujarati-pulp-fiction

blaft, to random
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Pulp up! 2 hrs to go!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaftgujaratipulp/an-anthology-of-gujarati-pulp-fiction

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125% would be a nice round number 😁 Can we get there in the next 9 hours?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaftgujaratipulp/an-anthology-of-gujarati-pulp-fiction/rewards

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13 hours left! We've got books, signed books, ebooks, totes, book bundles, mega pulptastic ebook bundles, posters, and monster boxes!

Support #translatedfiction! Support #indiepublishing! Help bring classic #GujaratiPulpFiction into English!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaftgujaratipulp/an-anthology-of-gujarati-pulp-fiction

#Bookstodon

blaft, to random
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🎵20-20-24 hours to go-o-o🎵
Back our translation project!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaftgujaratipulp/an-anthology-of-gujarati-pulp-fiction

blaft, to random
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Every time we toot/skeet/tweet we get a couple more backers so we're going to keep bugging you 😅

The Gujarati Pulp Fiction Kickstarter is live for 31 more hours! We're fully funded & hope to have the book out by the end of 2024 in time for gift season! Please boost!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaftgujaratipulp/an-anthology-of-gujarati-pulp-fiction

Raat Raani by H N Golibar
Bar Dancer by Vibhavari Verma

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Read an excerpt of Bar Dancer by Vibhavari Verma, in translation by Vishwabhari S. Parmar.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaftgujaratipulp/an-anthology-of-gujarati-pulp-fiction/posts/4020776

Then back our Kickstarter to help get the book out by December and read the rest!

Note: if you select one of the rewards that includes already-published ebooks, you won't need to wait for them... we can send those to you this month! 35 hours left to back!

Gujarati Pulp Fiction Kickstarter image

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48 hours left for our Kickstarter! Book your copy of GUJARATI PULP FICTION now!

Murder for hire! Headless ghosts! Mermaids! Nightclub dancers out for revenge!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaftgujaratipulp/an-anthology-of-gujarati-pulp-fiction

#bookstodon #crowdfunding #pulpfiction #pulpart #indianwriting #translatedfiction

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Aaand the Gujarati Pulp anthology gets its first bit of press... A write-up in the Gujarati Mid-Day!

https://www.gujaratimidday.com/columns/article/vishwa-matrubhasha-divas-and-authors-who-translated-gujarati-literature-into-different-languages-213474

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3 days to go!

We're fully funded, but every preorder pledge helps us get this out faster!... and then maybe 🤞 we can expand to translating an Assamese pulp antho & a Marathi horror antho & more Hausa soyayya novels & Bahasa Melayu medieval pirate-superhero action thrillers and and and

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaftgujaratipulp/1025028512/

misty, to random
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@blaft For tiers that include your previous ebooks, do backers get those right away when the campaign ends, or once the new book is ready?

blaft,
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@misty We can send them right away if you like! (Remind us if you don't get them)

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Extremely chuffed at this Goodreads review of Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India!

Buy the book here: https://www.blaft.com/products/ghosts-monsters-and-demons-of-india

blaft,
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@Sablebadger yay! Hope you enjoy!

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No Blaft book has ever won an award of any sort. Very few have even been eligible for any (there aren't a lot of anthology awards, our books are often multi- or cross-genre, we have a lot of co-authored/co-translated stuff, often there are multiple nationalities, not published in US/UK, etc.)

I occasionally worry about this--should we be trying harder to win prizes?--but right now, reading about the #HugoAwards omnishambles makes me kind of glad we haven't bothered!

blaft, to random
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Blaft editor Rakesh Khanna will be giving a talk on Translating Genre Fiction on Wednesday, Feb 21, at Princeton with Daisy Rockwell. Free! Please come!

https://ptic.princeton.edu/events/2024/translating-genre-fiction

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