Deborah Balogun ✨

•Editor • Sensitivity reader • Clients: Penguin Random House, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan & more • Work with me 👇🏾

[Deborah Balogun ✨ @DBalWrites]

@noisy_bookclub @squareroot_com Aww I edited this book! ❤️ Would be so fun to attend if I was in the state! x

[Oyinkansola Alabi (Dr.) @EmotionsDoctor]

I have never encountered a typographical error in the Bible. Maybe it exist, I just haven't encountered it. The editors and proofreaders are in a world of their own.

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

.@HachetteKids has acquired YA romantasy debut A Divine and Deadly Vow by Cairo Aibangbee in a pre-empt 👇

[WME Books UK @WMEBooksUK]

Will your pitch be our valentine?💌

📅Save the date! On 12th February we want to fall head-over-heels for the love story of our dreams!

Use #pitchWME between 10am and 5pm to submit (you'll receive a comment from @WMEBooksUK if your pitch is selected).

Rules in the comments!🏹

[Taurus Groove @jiggyjayy2]

Christmas is in 10 days and work has not slowed down???

[Afropolitan 🅰️🌶 @afropolitan]

David Oyelowo's mother lived in one bedroom in Lagos with 5 people. Dreamed of her Mercedes for decades. Got a brain aneurysm the day they moved into their Hollywood home.

She prayed Selma into existence. Never saw him become MLK.

This is timeline grief, when success arrives after the witness leaves.

[The Nigeria Prizes @NGRLitPrize]

An exploration of love, loss, and the spaces we call home.

Here’s an excerpt from This Motherless Land by Nikki May.

#TheNigeriaPrize2025 #Africanliterature
#VoicesThatMatter
#NPL2025
#Africanwriters
#Audioexcerpts

[Deborah Balogun ✨ @DBalWrites]

@DamilolaLizzie @penguinrandom Happy US pub day, Lizzie!!🥳🥳

[Lizzie Damilola Blackburn @DamilolaLizzie]

The Re-Write is out in the US today! 🥳So excited for readers across the pond to dive into this second-chance, summer romance. Huge thanks to my amazing US team @penguinrandom 💛
Buy your copy here https://t.co/flmnux1jRi

[Nikki May @NikkiOMay]

This is happening and I’m shook

[Rachel Faturoti is ̶c̶r̶y̶i̶n̶g̶ editing @RachelWithAn_E]

After #weareladyparts aired, I wanted something for #blackalt girls + younger me, so I did that with amazing illustrator, Flo Wooley.

This graphic novel is for all the Black Alt girls 👩🏿‍🎤🖤🙂‍↕️ BLACK DOLLS is OUT NOW.

Black girls 🤝🏿 pop-punk band = win Clash of the Bands?

[Deborah Balogun ✨ @DBalWrites]

@NikkiOMay @anteksiler Haha!!🤣

[Deborah Balogun ✨ @DBalWrites]

@NikkiOMay Happy 60th!🥳🎉 Hope you had a blast!!

[Deborah Balogun ✨ @DBalWrites]

Happy belated publication day to this heartwarming love story! I loved it the first time I read it and can’t wait to dive back in.

[Deborah Balogun ✨ @DBalWrites]

I will read anything and everything by Lizzie Blackburn. And yes, I am biased lol.

Preorder link 👇🏾

[Lizzie Damilola Blackburn @DamilolaLizzie]

Copies of The Re-Write are here!🙌🏾🥳 🎉 I won’t lie—I opened the box before filming because I just couldn’t wait. Still, holding a novel I’ve written feels insaaane. The feeling will never get old🥰

Pre-order: https://t.co/RmtgxAp6yy

#TheReWrite #booktwt

[Deborah Balogun ✨ @DBalWrites]

@DamilolaLizzie Seeing the final version out in the world is such a joy—huge congrats, Lizzie! 🥳 Can’t wait to see it in bookstores!!🎉🎊

[Lizzie Damilola Blackburn @DamilolaLizzie]

Copies of The Re-Write are here!🙌🏾🥳 🎉 I won’t lie—I opened the box before filming because I just couldn’t wait. Still, holding a novel I’ve written feels insaaane. The feeling will never get old🥰

Pre-order: https://t.co/RmtgxAp6yy

#TheReWrite #booktwt

[Deborah Balogun ✨ @DBalWrites]

@NikkiOMay You truly created a masterpiece! I’m so glad I got to meet you through it and work with you thereafter💕

[Deborah Balogun ✨ @DBalWrites]

@RachelWithAn_E @SheffLibraries @HachetteKids Congratulations love!!🥳 Super proud of you!!🙌🏾🙌🏾