You can see the "event code" you produced here:

https://alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/events?id=nevent1qvzqqqr4tqpzqu7c5rph88qq4zqzaeh440swuvcds70zh5vrxmkv5w9zqhqc2dchqyvhwumn8ghj7enjv4jkccte9eek7anzd96zu6r0wd6qzxmhwden5te0w35x2cmfw3skgetv9ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5q35amnwvaz7tm5dpjkvmmjv4ehgtnwdaehgu339e3k7mgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejqzyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn9qythwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnndamxy6t59e5x7um5qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yv339e3k7mgqyz89kdd3pq5crxagqe7ssare2rrmzx3td3gef7hjfjcu2t0k0e8yugfgt57

You can see how you put "* by Jim Craddock" in the title field. The title is what is at the very first header, like "= This is a Title". The author metadata goes into the "author" field, in the yml, not the title. Just use a name, as we automatically preface it with "by ". Don't add formatting, like bold, in headers. That happens automatically.

Your .adoc first lines should just be:
```adoc
= Redacted Science

== Foreword

Jim Craddock’s story begins not with a diagnosis, but with a domino toppling to start a Rube-Goldberg-like chain of events that was impossible to anticipate — severing trust, certainty, and medical convention. At once patient, researcher, skeptic, and subject, Jim documents a thirty-year personal experiment shaped by pain, persistence, and the pursuit of pattern in a system built on averages.

This project, _Redacted Science_, charts that journey — sometimes even to the point of discomfort for the reader. It is a...
```

You have very heavy formatting, with bold asterix and italic underscores all over the place, and hard-returns, which makes it difficult to read and interrupts the automatic word wrapping. For instance:
```adoc
_[Author, that sounds pretty cool._\n\n_I’m not an author. I’m a Chemical Engineer with thirty years in\n\nsystem-building and data architecture. If you know someone like that,\n\nyou know they are all about data integrity. “I think in third normal\n\nform.” At least that is what I told them when I interviewed and got the\n\noffer to be the Data Architect for the City of Tulsa several years ago.\n\nI turned them down, largely due to this illness. I knew it would come\n\nback. I was in one of the interludes. The time between transitions when\n\nmy brain was cooking with gas, and I was in shape and knew I could do\n\nanything you wanted with a database design. I still can, even though\n\nevery day is a “push day” - what I call days that I just try to get past\n\nthe symptoms to the finish line. But, I want to recognize something, or\n\nsomeone._\n\n__W
```

I'm thinking that whole section should be a blockquote, like:
```adoc
[Author, that sounds pretty cool.\n\nI’m not an author. I’m a Chemical Engineer with thirty years in system-building and data architecture. If you know someone like that, you know they are all about data integrity. “I think in third normal form.” At least that is what I told them when I interviewed and got the offer to be the Data Architect for the City of Tulsa several years ago. I turned them down, largely due to this illness. I knew it would come back. I was in one of the interludes. The time between transitions when my brain was cooking with gas, and I was in shape and knew I could do anything you wanted with a database design. I still can, even though every day is a “push day” - what I call days that I just try to get past the symptoms to the finish line. But, I want to recognize something, or someone.\n\nW
```
Hope that helps.

https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/syntax-quick-reference/#more-delimited-blocks