Adeyemi O.

Nonfiction book editor. I work on every kind of nonfiction book, and I specialise in Christian and spiritual titles. Top Rated, 100% Job Success Score, 14 contracts on Upwork. Developmental, line and copy editing, from complete draft to publishable manuscript. You finished the book. You know what you were trying to say. You cannot tell whether the page is saying it. That gap is the work. I am a developmental, line and copy editor and I work across all nonfiction: memoir and testimony, self-help and personal development, leadership and business, history, health and wellness, practical guides and how-to. If it is a nonfiction book, I edit it. I take a complete draft and work it to a publishable manuscript, whether that means restructuring the whole argument or a final pass to Chicago Manual of Style. Christian and spiritual books are my specialty and the deepest part of my practice. Devotionals, Bible-teaching books, testimony and ministry memoir, discipleship material, Christian leadership. If you finished the book and you know what God put on your heart to say, you are not explaining the genre to me before we start. Recent contracts include God's Unusual Miracles (Book 1), a Christian book on economic justice, a 50,000-word sports and coaching manuscript copy edited to CMOS, and a memoir reassembled into a clear narrative structure. All rated 5.0. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS What kinds of books do you edit? All nonfiction. Memoir and testimony, self-help and personal development, leadership and business, history, health and wellness, practical and how-to books. My specialty is Christian, spiritual and faith-based nonfiction: devotionals, Bible studies and teaching books, ministry memoir, discipleship and Christian leadership. Which kind of editing do I need? Developmental editing works on structure. What order the chapters go in, what is missing, where the reader loses patience, whether the book delivers what the opening promises. Line editing works on how it reads when the thinking is already sound but the sentences are heavy. Copy editing works line by line on grammar, consistency and style to Chicago Manual of Style, for a book that is nearly final. Most first drafts need developmental first. Send me the manuscript and I will tell you which one you need, including when the answer is the cheaper one. Will you change my theology? No. I edit how clearly your message is carried, not what you believe. Scripture references, doctrinal positions and denominational language stay yours. Where a passage could be misread by someone outside your tradition, I flag it in a comment and the decision stays with you. Do you check Scripture references? Yes. Every quoted verse is checked against the translation you name, references follow one format throughout, and I list the permission line your translation requires for your copyright page. Will you change my voice? No. I edit toward what you were trying to say, not toward how I would have said it. If a change alters your meaning, I raise it as a query rather than making it silently. What do I deliver? A Word file with tracked changes, a clean copy, a style sheet, and a short editorial summary of the patterns I found and what to watch for in your next book. Margin notes are written in plain English, not editorial shorthand. How long does it take? A 50,000-word copy edit runs one to two weeks. Developmental work at that length runs longer, and I confirm the exact date and duration before the contract starts. What does it cost? Fixed price, agreed before we begin. Copy editing from $0.025 a word, line editing from $0.035, developmental from $0.05, depending on the state of the draft. What do I need to have ready? A complete draft. Not a perfect one, a complete one. Can I see your work before hiring? Yes. I edit the first 1,000 words of your manuscript so you are judging an actual edit rather than a promise. WHO I WORK BEST WITH Authors writing any nonfiction book who want it read honestly before it goes out. Pastors, ministry leaders and Bible teachers publishing a first book. Authors writing memoir or testimony from lived experience. Coaches, consultants and leaders turning a framework into a book. Authors self-publishing to Amazon KDP who need the manuscript clean before it goes to formatting. Writers with a finished draft rather than an idea. Authors who want honest feedback rather than reassurance, and who would rather hear a problem now than read it in a review. WHAT I DO NOT DO I do not ghostwrite. I edit manuscripts you wrote. I work on nonfiction books, so novels, poetry, academic theses and technical documentation are outside what I do. I do not write blog posts, articles, marketing copy or press releases. If your project sits outside that list, I will tell you before the contract rather than after. LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR BOOK Send me your genre, your word count, and what stage the draft is at. I will tell you which kind of editing it actually nee