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Kuzhali Manickavel has been writing a really great column for The Swaddle featuring conversations with her niece, and this week's piece is especially amazing and you should read it. And after you are done reading it then you should buy all her books because why don't you have them already??!!?!    

  Shyam (he usually goes by the one name) is currently the most familiar illustrator in Tamil publishing. His work can be found in all the popular weekly Tamil magazines, as well as mags from other southern states. He's also done a large number of book covers, including several of Blaft's: The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction series, for example, as well as this month's new release, The Aayakudi Murders by Indra Soundar Rajan. Blaft director Rashmi Ruth Devadasan asked him some questions for a recent piece at Paper Planes about pulp art. They didn't have room for the full...

Math Problems with Dinosaurs is now available in the Blaft webstore. You can also buy it in EPUB format. On Saturday July 20 from 5-8 pm we're having a book launch for this and for our latest Tamil pulp novel translation, The Aayakudi Murders by Indra Soundar Rajan, at Apollo Books in Mahabalipuram. Translator Nirmal Rajagopalan will be signing books and there will be sundal and puzzles. Hope to see you there!  

Available now (paperback and ebook): The Aayakudi Murders by Indra Soundar Rajan!

Releasing July 9! Available for pre-order from our website (print and ebook) and from the Kindle Store! Rajendran is a young journalist who works for a weekly magazine based in Chennai. When he first arrives in Aayakudi to investigate a curious tip about a ghost, the place seems like an ordinary, traditional farming village. Soon, though, Rajendran finds himself entangled in a head-spinning mystery involving ancient treasure, spirit possession, and a series of grisly killings. There's also the beautiful, troubled daughter of the village panchayat president... and the notorious evil sorcerer who wants her dead. About the author: Indra Soundar...