Leadstart

Leadstart is one of the leading publishing houses in India, with an impressive list of some of the most regarded and bestselling writers in the country including Anand Neelkantan, Kiran Manral, Gurcharan Das, Shreyas Bhave, Luke Coutinho. We also have India’s largest book distribution network, with a retail distribution spread of over 100 cities and towns in India. Beyond offline stores, our titles are available worldwide via all major ecommerce and ebook retailers in the paperback format. Our authors, editorial teams and books have won accolades and critical praise for their work at both national and international levels. Several Leadstart authors have been regularly shortlisted, longlisted and won major awards and recognitions from the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, Crossword Awards, Man Asian Literary Prize, various State Literary Awards to The Padma Bhushan Award (third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India) as well. Leadstart Literary Rights Agency & Books to Screen Agency enables our books to reach across different media, language and geographical barriers, beyond conventional publishing. At the moment, our secondary rights arm works with over 200 publishers worldwide in 18 languages. Some of the Leadstart titles have been translated to as many as 13 languages, and the list keeps growing, spreading Leadstart’s content in multiple languages and regions, thereby developing an ever widening fan base for our authors. If you have one and are interested in the submission, then please mail to: [email protected]