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A publishing journey with no dark stretches.

Eighteen editorial stages, distilled into six moments you'll actually feel. You can watch your book move through every one of them, live, from your author dashboard.

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First LightA Field Guide to ForgettingIshaan Bedi

18Editorial stages6Moments that matter

01
Submit
Upload your manuscript online. A human editor — never a form letter — replies within 14 days.
02
Refine
Structural editing, line editing and proofreading with editors who argue for your reader.
03
Design
A cover worth judging and typography worth rereading, drafted until it's undeniably yours.
04
Register
ISBN, copyright, and for academic work a Crossref DOI — your book becomes citable, findable, permanent.
05
Release
Print runs, ebook and audio, distributed to stores and libraries in 38 countries.
06
Grow
Marketing sprints, events, and a royalty dashboard that pays quarterly and hides nothing.

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Quality you can feel: Thoughtful design. Meticulous production.
Pan-India and global: Fast, reliable delivery. Real reach.
Made to last: Books that endure. Impressions that remain.

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Six peer-reviewed journals. Double-anonymous review with a median first decision of 31 days. Crossref DOIs, ORCID integration and indexing that actually reaches your field.

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LJIR impact factor: 31 days
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The people we publish

Every book has a journey and every author a story. Here is what they say about publishing with Lighthouse.

Three publishers rejected the silences in my novel. Lighthouse built a cover around them. That's the difference — they read for what a book is trying to become.
Meera RaghunathanAuthor, The Cartographer of Silences
JCB Prize 2025 — shortlisted
My royalty dashboard shows every copy, every store, every rupee — updated weekly. After two decades in academia, this is the first publisher I haven't had to chase.
Dr. S. VenkataramanAuthor, Letters to a Young Scientist
Padma Shri awardee
I self-published my first collection with their Harbour package. Ninety-six days later it was in forty bookstores and I still owned every word of it.
Ishaan BediPoet, A Field Guide to Forgetting
Three print runs across India

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