Where every book finds its readers
Lighthouse is a publishing ecosystem. We take a book from manuscript to readers and beyond — five imprints, marketing, literary representation and verified reviews. Debut or bestseller, we connect you to your audience.
“They rejected my first submission with a two-page letter explaining exactly why. I rewrote it for eight months and they took it.”
Ananya Rao · Beacon Literary
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New Delhi World Book Fair
Author stalls from ₹99
Our own hall at the Delhi fair, with tables priced so a first-time author can actually stand at one. Stock handling, card payments and a signing slot are included in the ₹99.
- When
- 10 – 18 January 2027
- Where
- Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi
From the imprints
New releases
Featured book trailers
High-production visual trailers, made in-house for our authors and their launches.
The Library Door· Lighthouse Amplify
A reader crosses a threshold she has read about all her life.
How it works
Our process
Every stage is visible from your dashboard the day the book enters the house — including the ones where we are the ones holding it up.
Discovery
You send the book and tell us what you want from it. We read all of it — the whole manuscript, not the first three chapters.
The honest answer
Yes, no, or not yet — with reasons. A no here is worth more than a maybe that costs you a year.
Terms
Advance and royalty for a trade contract, or a fixed itemised quotation if you are publishing it yourself. No line called “miscellaneous”.
Our curated divisions
The Lighthouse ecosystem
Five lists
Our imprints
Send the book to the one that publishes books like it. A manuscript that arrives at the right list is read by somebody already looking for it.
Our network
Our partnerships
- IngramGlobal print and distribution
- AudibleAudiobook production and reach
- Amazon & FlipkartRetail and Kindle
- Apple Books & KoboDigital editions
- CrossrefDOI registration
- Nielsen BookScanSales reporting
Client success
Author testimonials
“They rejected my first submission with a two-page letter explaining exactly why. I rewrote it for eight months and they took it. No one else even replied.”
“Forty-three cover drafts. I counted. The one we printed was nothing like the first and I still can't imagine the book with any other jacket.”
“The royalty dashboard updates weekly and shows sales by country. My previous publisher sent a PDF twice a year that I could not reconcile with anything.”
“I had a publicist with a name and a phone number. She answered on a Sunday during launch week. That is the whole review.”
Common inquiries
Frequently asked questions
Do you charge authors to publish?
Not for a trade contract — that is the one where we pay you, with an advance on signature. The Partnership and Independent tracks are paid for, and both are quoted as a fixed itemised figure before anything begins. There is never a fee to read or consider a manuscript.
How long until I hear back?
Fourteen days for a first response, and everybody gets one. If a manuscript is going to take longer — usually because two editors want to read it — you will hear that before the fourteen days are up rather than after.
Do I keep my rights?
On the Partnership and Independent tracks, entirely: the rights, the files and the print files stay yours, and you can walk away with them. A trade contract licenses specific rights for a term and a territory, all of it written in sentences you can read, with reversion spelled out.
Should I send the whole manuscript?
Not at first. Send the enquiry form with a description of the book and who it is for. If an editor wants it, they will ask for the full text in the format we need — which saves you formatting it for a house that turns out not to be right for it.
What if my book is already published?
Then publishing is not what you need, and the marketing, reviews and author-growth divisions all work on books published elsewhere. A surprising share of what those divisions run is for authors whose own publisher stopped after launch week.
Send us the book
The whole manuscript, a synopsis, and a line about who it is for. A commissioning editor reads all of it, and everyone gets a reply — three percent get an offer.