Books
Hello! I am Tara Khandelwal an editor, writer and the founder of Bound. My journey as an entrepreneur and editor has been nothing but fulfilling. I began my startup Bound to help writers like you go from good to great. We provide editorial services, online classes, one on one mentoring and more. My team of veteran editors and I look forward to working with you on your book!
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We provide editorial services for authors, biographers, business writers, academics, journalists and non-profits. We work with all genres. We've worked with publishers like Hachette, Bloomsbury, Rupa, Penguin and more.
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I have edited the following books: (Please note that these are only the books which have been published by major publishing houses. We have also worked on countless other works in progress and evaluated many manuscripts):
Books Edited
Mirror City, Chitrita Banerji (Penguin)
Sons of Brahma, Dhruba Hazarika (Penguin)
Quantum Siege, Brijesh Singh (Penguin)
Nongrim Hills, Ankush Saikia (Penguin)
Many Roads Through Paradise, Shyam Selvadurai (Penguin)
The Truth Will Prevail, Sadruddin Hashwani (Penguin)
A Convenient Culprit, Vibha Singh (Penguin)
The Essential North East Cookbook, Hoihnu Hazel (Penguin)
Analog Virtual, Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Hachette)
What Mina Did, Geeta Menon (Rupa)
Once Upon an IAS Exam, K. Vijayakarthikeya (Rupa)
Tides Don’t Cross, Simar Malhotra (Rupa)
Wonked: A Policy Guide to 21st Century India, Vivan Sharan (Bloomsbury)
Road to Mekong, Piya Bahadur (Pan Macmillan)
Running With The Dragon, Saibal Dasgupta (Penguin)
Dark Destiny, Kamal Kant (Rupa)
Saints and Martyrs, Martin Penny (Eyewear Publishing)
The Gollanz Book of South Asian Science Fiction (Hachette)
Skyfall, Saba Karim (Bloomsbury)
Essential Items, Udayan Mukherjee (Bloomsbury)
Girls in Green, Tanushree Podder (Bloomsbury)
Tales From the Himalayas
Young Blood: Ten Terrifying College Tales
Pakistan: A Fashionable History
An Incomplete Life: The Autobiography
NEVER TOO BIG TO FAIL: The Collapse of IL&FS and its Ten Trillion-Rupee Maze
Change Your Habits, Change Your Life : Your Guide to an Awesome Life
India And Faraway Lands: 5,000 Years Of Connected History
THE YEAR THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
Books Pitched
Spotted potential in these previously unknown debut voices and helped them reach publication
The Eminently Forgettable Life of Mrs Pankajam
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(Shortlisted for the Tata Lit Live)
Three Impossible Wishes
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(Best Selling)
Analog Virtual, Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Hachette)
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(Award Winning)