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Job Title: Developmental Editor — Grief/Caregiving Nonfiction (40,505 words)
Word count: 40,505 words (27 chapters + foreword, dedication, 6 bonus sections)
Scope: Seeking a developmental editor for my completed first manuscript, Nobody Tells You This—a nonfiction guide (written from my perspective as an RN with 15+ years' clinical experience) helping families navigate death and grief across emotional, spiritual, financial, relational, and physical dimensions. Manuscript is complete; needs the following:

Reducing repetitive chapter structure and cutting redundant transitional phrasing

Trimming overall length, mostly from expository sections, while preserving/expanding narrative "bedside story" material

Guidance in general

Qualifications:

Experience with narrative nonfiction/memoir, ideally health, hospice, or grief-related
Comfort with faith-integrated content (Christian scripture references included)
Experience with first-time authors from clinical/professional backgrounds a plus

This novel stands at approximately 88,000 words and is broken into small chapters.

The manuscript has consensual high heat scene scenes between a man and a woman. This book is about an affair so that content may be triggering.

There is reference of domestic violence, but none depicted.

Sex, alcohol, adult language

The manuscript is completed. I’m looking for someone to do line item edits, and proofreading prior to self publishing.

I am seeking an experienced developmental editor for a completed literary memoir that I intend to query to literary agents after editing.
The manuscript is approximately 45k words.
The memoir follows the collapse of my financial, professional, and personal life after losing money entrusted to me by people I loved and respected. It explores trust, dependence, grief, betrayal, identity, and rebuilding. The narrative moves between journalism, church leadership, family relationships, business failure, and isolation before arriving at a quieter emotional resolution.
I am looking for an editor with substantial experience editing commercially viable memoir or literary nonfiction that has been traditionally published.
I do not want my voice rewritten. My priority is identifying structural weaknesses, pacing issues, repetition, unnecessary scenes, emotional clarity, chapter transitions, and places where the manuscript can become stronger while preserving the natural, remembered quality of the narration.
After developmental feedback, I would also like a careful line edit to improve clarity and consistency without making the prose sound more "literary" or polished than intended.
Please include examples of memoirs or narrative nonfiction you have edited, preferably projects that secured literary representation or traditional publication.
My goal is to begin querying literary agents immediately after the editing process is complete.
Preferred turnaround: within 4 to 8 weeks, although I am flexible for the right editor.

I am looking for a skilled copyeditor for my manuscript, Silent Signals: A Firefighter’s Guide to Self-Knowledge, Resilience, and a Life Well Lived.

This book is a practical, reflective guide drawing on my 26-year career as a Captain with Toronto Fire Services and my educational background in Occupational Health and Safety. It features a unique "Signal, Meaning, Action" architecture accompanied by practical worksheets for first responders.

A note on my process: To help format the architecture and organize my decades of field notes, I utilized AI tools to assist with structural shaping and polishing. However, the operational insights, anecdotes, and core frameworks are entirely derived from my real-world service and expertise. The manuscript is fully written, structurally sound, and clean; I am seeking a human editor to ensure stylistic consistency, narrative flow, and grammar polish.

Please let me know if this sounds like a project you’d be interested in collaborating on, and I would be happy to send over a sample chapter.

Paper Bags is a memoir of a motherless child who is trying to find a place to belong as she waits each Friday for her father to come get her from her grandparents home. There are parts that touch the heart and others that make you laugh as you wait alongside her…

I am seeking an experienced copyeditor for an undergraduate entrepreneurship textbook that has been developed and refined through two semesters of classroom use. The manuscript is complete and has reached the copyediting stage. I am not looking for developmental editing or major restructuring. My goal is to improve clarity, consistency, grammar, punctuation, and readability while preserving my voice and instructional approach.
The textbook is approximately 26,400 words and is intended for an undergraduate entrepreneurship capstone course, with potential use in MBA programs. It includes practical venture-development content, and integrated AI research guidance. Instructor materials (PowerPoint slides, test bank, and worksheets) are separate and are not part of this initial editing project.
To ensure a good fit, I would like to begin with a paid edit of one representative chapter using Microsoft Word with Track Changes and comments. Based on the quality of that sample, I expect to engage one editor for the complete manuscript.
Ideal qualifications include experience editing one or more of the following:
Business or entrepreneurship books
Higher education textbooks
Professional or trade nonfiction
Please include:
A brief description of your relevant editing experience
Your editing approach
Whether you create or maintain a style sheet
Your preferred pricing model (hourly, per-word, or fixed fee)
An estimate for both the sample chapter and the complete manuscript
This textbook is the first of two publishing projects, not including future editions. A business/trade book based on the same venture development framework is the next book. I am interested in establishing a working relationship with an editor whose style and expertise are a good fit for both books.

I am seeking an experienced developmental editor for my first business leadership book, currently approximately 45,000 words.
The manuscript is based on more than twenty-five years of executive leadership experience building and transforming engineering and consulting organizations through periods of rapid growth.
This is not a memoir or autobiography. The book combines real leadership stories with a practical framework exploring how organizational capability enables sustainable growth. My objective is to secure traditional publication through a literary agent or established business publisher.
At this stage, I am looking for a developmental editor who can provide an independent assessment of the manuscript's overall structure, narrative flow, chapter organization, market positioning, commercial potential, and consistency of author voice. I am looking for constructive challenge rather than copyediting.
Experience editing traditionally published business, leadership, or management books is highly desirable.
If selected, I would also appreciate discussing your typical editorial process, expected timeframe, fee structure, and whether you have experience preparing first-time nonfiction authors for literary agents and traditional publishers.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat.
• Format and standardize educational reference materials for a professional convention.
• Ensure consistent styling across all documents, including headings, spacing, citations, and layout.
• Format Word documents and PowerPoint presentations to create a cohesive, polished, and uniform look across all materials.
• Create program title sheets and combine and organize documents into final, clearly labeled deliverables by program/session.
• Rate: $45/hour; estimate project will take 50-80 hours.
• Start asap; project deadline is Wednesday, July 22

We have used AI to novelize the screenplay ZORBA'S LAST DANCE. As it's expected from AI, the current manuscript needs human intervention. Editor must look at the existing material and exchange views with us as to what is needed (and how much it will cost) to bring the material to a standard submission level acceptable to major publishers or to self-publish.

Objective: Edge of the Red Sea Ministries (ERSM) is seeking an Editor that will take our existing Group Workbook and reduce the size, clean up grammar, and offer any other editing suggestions to make this a more professional and concise document. The intention is to bind and print the workbook for our clients.

Background: ERSM is a non-profit Christian-based organization dedicated to leading individuals out of the depths of despair and into lives filled with peace, joy and purpose. This is accomplished through 1-on-1 mentorship along with various support groups that follow the workbook curriculum.

Additional Details:
1. We would like to see as much of the “addendum” content incorporated into the chapters that they are affiliated with, at the discretion of the Editor.
2. There are some addendums that are meant for “take-home” activities, needing to be a separate addendum.
3. Each unique chapter and addendum is its own separate Google Doc. Because of that, we are not including all of the files with this RFP, but they are available upon request.

RFP Response: Please provide a total price or price range for the completed project, along with an estimated completion date, and payment terms. If applicable, please provide sample of work and references. For questions regarding this RFP, contact Caroline at admin@edgeoftheredseaministries.org