I provide professional proofreading and editing services for writers who desire to submit clean, concise, and compelling manuscripts that will attract publishers and intrigue readers.
E-mail 3-5 pages of your WIP (work in progress) to denise@lightningeditingservices.com.
Cost is $50, which will be credited to your account if you sign a contract for one of the packages listed below:
This option includes correction of typos as well as errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Cost: $30/hour or flat rate of $85 per 5,000 words.
This option includes line-by-line editing using track changes and comments. Cost: $35/hour or flat rate of $105 per 5,000 words. Includes one complete line-by-line edit of manuscript as well as one or two additional readings of manuscript after the author has made revisions.
This option includes substantive editing, two readings of the complete manuscript after the author has made revisions, and formatting the manuscript as an e-book or print book for Kindle Direct Publishing. Cost is $40/hour or flat rate of $165 per 5,000 words.
She loves books, biscuits, and barbecue.
After 29 years of teaching English grammar and composition on the high school and college level, Denise became a book editor for Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas in February 2012.
She is the author of two collections of devotions, Open Your Hymnal and Open Your Hymnal Again. Her work has also appeared in a variety of publications including The Upper Room, EFCA Today, Vista, and two Chicken Soup for the Soul compilations.
She is the founder of DigDeeperDevotions.com, a website dedicated to encouraging and enabling Christians to dig deeper into God’s Word.
Denise has served as a general editor for LPCBooks (a division of Iron Stream Media) since February 2012. She has worked on several dozen books, including these award winners: Bury Me with My Pearls by Jane Jenkins Herlong, Running from a Crazy Man by Lori Roeleveld, and I Am Cyrus: Harry S. Truman and the Rebirth of Israel by Craig von Buseck.
As a freelance editor, she helps both fiction and nonfiction writers produce professional-quality books—everything from lighthearted romance (The Invisible Woman in a Red Dress by Zoe McCarthy) to theology and apologetics (Equipped: Basic Training in Apologetics for Evangelism by Steven Garofalo).
She served as the editor of The Journey Christian Newspaper from December 2013–October 2016.
Denise is a member of the Christian Proofreaders and Editors Network (Christian PEN) and an instructor for the PEN Institute.
She is also a columnist for Christian Communicator, a publication of the American Christian Writers Association. Her column, “Mind Your MUGS” addresses grammar, usage, and sentence structure conundrums that all writers encounter.
The Secret Place devotional magazine
The Upper Room devotional magazine
Penned from the Heart annual devotional compilation
Christian Communicator
Cross and QuillA
Cup of Comfort for New Mothers
Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat
The Lighthouse Christian Magazine
EFCA Today
Vista
Chicken Soup for the Soul:New Moms
www.christiandevotions.us
A collection of Denise’s devotions, Open Your Hymnal: Devotions That Harmonize Scripture With Song, was released by Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas in May 2010. A second volume of hymn devotions, Open Your Hymnal Again, was released in June 2012.
Open Your Hymnal: Devotions That Harmonize Scripture and Song (Lighthouse, 2010)
Open Your Hymnal Again: Devotions That Harmonize Scripture and Song (Lighthouse 2012)
Restore the Joy: Daily Devotions for December, co-authored with Nancy J. Baker (2018)
Restore the Hope: Devotions for Lent and Easter, co-authored with Nancy J. Baker (2019)
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